Word: maunde
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...seemed to steady somewhat. Captain L. E. H. Maund, C.B.E., a few senior officers and a picked skeleton crew stayed aboard. Two hours later the men on the destroyer cheered when they heard an order for all rescued members of the engine-room crew to return...
...switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going. They started the pumps, but the Ark was shipping water fast. They even managed to raise a head of steam but soon the gauges fell, the lights dimmed. It was hopeless. Captain Maund gave the final order to abandon ship...
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