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Because it was not merely a shipwreck but the culmination of a series of disasters to Ward Line ships, the sinking of the Mohawk last week left the country aghast. Only five months ago the Morro Castle, her captain mysteriously dead, caught fire and burned with a loss of 124 lives (TIME, Sept. 17). Last week she was still beached off Asbury Park. N. J. Last month off Florida the Havana for no good reason went aground 20 miles off her course (TIME, Jan. 14). That a third major disaster should befall the Ward Line last week was regarded...
...Morro Castle fire (TIME, Sept...
...indictment was not the only source of worry last week for tall, grey Henry Cabaud. In Washington the Post Office Department's investigation of ocean mail contracts was pointing a long inquisitorial finger at the subsidy which enabled the Ward Line to build the Morro Castle and her sister ship Oriente at a $10,000,000 cost. Because the company was alleged to have received from the Government to date $6,000,000 more under the contract system than it would have received under the proposed poundage rate. Postmaster General Farley seemed certain to recommend cancellation of contracts. Such action...
More embarrassing than the mail contract investigation was the revelation that the Ward Line had made a profit of more than a quarter of a million dollars out of the Morro Castle burning. This it was enabled to do by collecting $4,186,000 insurance for the vessel against a book value of only $3,923,000. The company pointed out that it had paid $2,737,745 of the insurance money to the U. S. Shipping Board against notes outstanding, that it was customary to carry high insurance on vessels to cover losses...
Meanwhile Death still dogged the Morro Castle's wake. In Shrewsbury, Mass. last week died Ethel I. Knight Celatka, 21, of a weakened heart supposedly caused by 14 hours' exposure in the water after she and her sister jumped from the burning Ward liner last September and swam ashore each with a child in tow. (Total deaths: 128.) Off Asbury Park last week, wreckers salvaging the vessel reported that the charred hulk was "wrinkling," the whole ship was cracking...