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...Rene Belbenoit, am a fugitive. . . ." On his most recent break for liberty, incorrigible Rene Belbenoit reached Trinidad with five other starving convicts in a leaky canoe, was equipped with food and a new lifeboat by the sympathetic British and set to sea again. Reaching Colombia finally, he struggled for months across the wet sand and through the jungle toward Panama...
...National Committee on Safety at Sea, got his personal pressagent to distribute a tart public letter by him on the human equation in safety at sea. Excerpt : "The general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
...completely disorganized. 6) During the fire, he hesitated too long in sending out an SOS, failed to tend to the passengers until too late, handled his ship incompetently. 7) Engineer Abbott did not know his job, never went to his post during the crisis but fled in the first lifeboat, where he plucked off his officer's insignia, murmured: "I'll be jailed for this...
...Ward Line. Stuck on a shoal 60 mi. east of Jupiter Light on the Florida coast was the S. S. Havana. While the passengers were eating breakfast Captain Alfred W. Peterson sent an SOS. While they were dancing the rumba in the lounge, he let down an empty lifeboat to test sea conditions. He found them rough. But the Havana was pounding, threatening to break up. Taking no chances, Captain Peterson lowered two boatloads of passengers, lowered four more when the Southern Pacific liner El Oceano arrived. Of the Havana's 51 passengers, all were saved...
Spurning lifeboat and life-preservers. Lieutenant Ulm and two companions last week climbed aboard Stella Australis, took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy...