Word: lifeboats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many simply slid down the wet decks into the water. Women screamed for their children. People careened along the corridors toward the lifeboat stations. A man who was helping his fellow passengers, Ian MacDonald, later reported that he worked with one hand grabbing the rail "and the other grasping hands, shoulders, legs and even hair to stop tumbling bodies." As the huge ship started sinking, those who could get aboard lifeboats rowed furiously away. Others tried to swim for it. One crewman jumped in with a child under each arm. In the icy waters, mothers cradled their babies in life...
...Would it perhaps be fair to say that, after running the ship of state onto the shoals of diplomatic, fiscal and military defeat, "Captain" Johnson was the first to board a lifeboat for the sunny shores of the Pedernales...
...armed American ship stood by, while three helpless men who sought only freedom were repeatedly overrun by a Cuban vessel in international waters. The result was a defeat, not so much for this nation as for the spirit of common humanity, to which those unfortunate men in the lifeboat were appealing...
...ships found the Cuban ship dead in the water about ten miles offshore, with its anchor dragging and the four crewmen on deck. When they sighted the U.S. ships, three of the men immediately jumped into a lifeboat and began rowing toward the cutter. Suddenly, a dozen men burst onto the deck of the 26 de Julio. With the ship's anchor still dragging, they got up power and headed the ship toward the lifeboat. They missed on the first pass, but swung around again and came close enough to dump two of the lifeboat's occupants into...
Late Orders. The U.S. cutter's skipper, Chief Boatswain's Mate P. W. Caviness, radioed Coast Guard headquarters for permission to intervene, was soon told to prevent the Cuban vessel from overrunning the lifeboat. The orders were too late. Before the cutter could move into position, the Julio made its third pass, and Caviness heard a shot fired from its deck. By the time the lifeboat came into sight again, both it and the sea around it were empty...