Word: nigelock
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...British freighter Nigelock, a converted wartime corvette loaded with fruit and vegetables, steamed through the China Sea one velvet night last week, outward bound from Communist Shanghai to Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...
...interceptor had pulled within range. She flew the flag of the Chinese Nationalist navy, and her machine-gunners opened fire. Nigelock's crew leaped for cover, but before the gunboat could close, a 4.5-in. shell whistled across her bow. H.M.S. Cockade had come racing to the rescue. The Nationalist gunboat, "suitably rebuked," as Cockade's offhand report put it, turned tail...
...Riffraff." For Nigelock's crew, the excitement was old stuff. A week before, they had been captured by a Nationalist warship but released under the guns of the Royal Navy's frigate St. Bride's Bay. Nigelock is one of a hundred British merchantmen (some under charter to Red China) engaged in Chinese coastal trade. Its crew and skipper expect to run into trouble: war-risk insurance on the China coast is the world's highest...
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