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...came within 93 pounds of the present world's record, with by far the biggest tuna ever landed in U. S. waters, a 705-lb. fish, 9 ft. 3½, in. long, 6 ft. 3 in. around. Scene of action was in the transatlantic steamer lane near Ambrose Lightship, only 23½ mi. from downtown Manhattan...
...force and fury the northeaster was only a mild prelude to last week's hurricane by the time it crashed headlong upon storm-racked Cape Hatteras and started up the coast. Before it left North Carolina it had dragged the Diamond Shoals lightship six miles out of position, piled the four-masted schooner Kohler up on Gull Shoals. With a breeches buoy across a quarter-mile of snowy surf Coast Guardsmen took off nine men, a woman, a dog, two cats...
Until the Rex triumphed last week Germany's Europa held the Atlantic record with an average speed of 27.92 knots over the 3,149-sea-mile course from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship which she covered last month in four days, 16 hours, 48 minutes. Last week the Rex with an average speed of 28.92 knots (exactly one knot faster than the Europa) steamed the longer course of 3,181 sea miles from Gibraltar to Ambrose Lightship in the shorter time of four days, 13 hours, 58 minutes. Until the Rex's trip, the record...
...things. One was to beat the average speed record for a transatlantic crossing: 27.9 knots, set by North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa to the lightship, one-half knot slower than the Europa's best average, but she had beaten her own Genoa-Ambrose record by 16 hours...
Last week a salvage vessel fished up part of the control car of the U. S. S. Akron from the sea floor off Barnegat Lightship. This grim sequel did not appear to weigh gravely on the mind of Commander Alger Herman Dresel, one-time captain of both the Los Angeles and the Akron, as he stepped into the control car of the Akron's sister ship in a red dawn two days later. His wife and daughter were looking on, 105 souls were aboard when Captain Dresel commanded, "Up ship!" and the brand-new U. S. S. Macon...