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...Caribbean, four days out of the Cuban port of Mariel, a storm struck the Euzkera. She sank so swiftly that only twelve men & women had time to climb into the one lifeboat that got away. Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua. She took the survivors aboard, headed for Cura...
Died. General Feng Yu-hsiang, 67, China's gargantuan (6 ft. 4 in., 270 lbs.) "Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...
...Cornwall Canal, pickets hurled mud and clayballs at protecting "Mounties," as the motorship Redwood entered the lowest lock. Crewmen left the ship to join the strikers, forced the skipper to go back. Soon 18 ships were blocked in the canal...
...November 1940 the motorship San Demetrio, well out of Halifax with 11,000 tons of gasoline, was struck amidships and on the port bow by shells from the pocket battleship Admiral von Scheer. She caught fire and her crew abandoned her. After two days 16 of her seamen, some wounded and one dying, boarded her, blazing as she was, and put out her fires. They got her in commission and sailed her by dead reckoning to Ireland. Her normal complement was 42 men. One single spark, at any moment, could have been the end of the 16 who manned...
Wolf Sighted. About 700 miles northeast of Montevideo, H. M. S. merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle (20,122-ton motorship, former star of the Capetown run ) sighted a suspicious vessel, apparently a merchantman, but long, lean and low. The Britisher signaled "Stop!"' The stranger, speeding ahead, replied with a salvo of shells which neatly bracketed the Carnarvon Castle...