Word: lifeboat
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...Leave the sinking ship of Western civilization. It had reached its end: the Pacific. Beyond lies your friend: Japan, the lifeboat of racial love, made radiant by the star of the East, the Rising...
...least 15 of the crew were killed by gunfire. Some 20 were taken prisoner. The rest, after making 450 miles in five days in a sail-equipped lifeboat, were picked up and taken to an African port. They were the first survivors to confirm the presence of an armed surface raider in the South Atlantic...
Home. On Ocracoke Island, N.C., a Negro seaman visited his folks for the first time in 20 years. When his ship was torpedoed in the Atlantic, his lifeboat brought him straight home...
...Cuba, survivors in a lifeboat, asking a U-boat commander for water and cigarets, got this reply: "Let Mr. Roosevelt supply them...
...patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried to flee, the Swede almost ran the lifeboat down...