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...Mary Luckenbach, had listed so quickly and sharply to port that it had been impossible to get her boats away. She had sunk in less than half an hour...
...Cost. What had happened? Both the hospital ship's Captain Barton E. Bacon (who had been the last man off his sinking vessel) and the Luckenbach Line agreed that though both ships were equipped with radar, neither had been relying...
...there was also some evidence that the freighter, though outward bound, had been moving along the inward-bound channel. These were questions for the board of inquiry and the courts to decide; even before the inquiry was over the U.S. filed a damage action asking $14 million from the Luckenbach Line, accusing it of negligence. Among the government's accusations: Excessive speed, failure to sound proper whistle, failure to use radar or other navigational warning aids and failure to have proper lookouts on watch...
Union. U.S. counterpart of Lloyd's Register is the 87-year-old American Bureau of Shipping, which handles marine rating for nearly all U.S. flag vessels. Last year Lloyd's and J. Lewis Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's multimillion-dollar classifying business between them. The A.B.S. dropped its 32-year-old working agreement with the British Corporation Register of Shipping, Lloyd's biggest rival in the United Kingdom, and arranged to dovetail its operations with Lloyd's instead...
...Marry (by Elisabeth Cobb & Herschel Williams; produced by Edgar F. Luckenbach) was quite understandably the work of two people: no one person would be capable of anything so bad. Its brightest witticisms heavier than a bride's first biscuits, it sank out of sight after three performances...