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...many ways, the fire that swept the 16-year-old Norwegian vessel resembled that aboard the Yarmouth Castle, the Panamanian-registered cruise ship on which 90 people-mostly passengers-died last November. In both cases the vessels were plying well-traveled Caribbean channels and carrying about 500 passengers and crewmen beneath idyllic, moonlit skies. As foreign ships, neither conformed fully to American safety standards. Each of the fires occurred in the early-morning hours, when only a few revelers lingered on deck...
...putting into Beira. Undaunted, one of Raphaely's ships, flying a Greek flag, quietly loaded 18,000 tons of crude in the Iranian port of Bandar Mashur and steamed around the northern coast of Africa to Dakar, where it changed its name to Ioanna V and hoisted a Panamanian flag. Outside Beira, the British frigate Plymouth warned the tanker to keep on going, and the Greek government, which had banned all oil shipments to Rhodesia, lifted the captain's papers, claiming that he was operating under an illegal Panamanian registration. Ignoring the hubbub, loanna V anchored a mile...
...escape with a bruised ankle when a horse jammed his leg against the starting gate. That first mishap kept him out of action for only half a day; after the second, doctors insisted that he stay in bed for 17 hours. Neither was likely to shake the almond-eyed Panamanian who is known in the trade as "El Chino" and "Stoneface," and who last year won more stake races (24) and more money ($2,582,702) than any other jockey...
...Yarmouth Castle was one of half a dozen ships, all aging, all under foreign flags, that carry American tourists on cruises to the West Indies, charging as little as $59 for the round-trip run from Miami to Nassau. Launched in 1927, she has flown U.S., Liberian and Panamanian flags, was registered in Panama when she went down. Thus, though long past the retirement age for U.S. passenger ships, generally kept in service no more than 20 years, she was required under international law to meet only the lax safety standards in force when she was built. Twice last year...
...twice-weekly, overnight run to Nassau. By midnight most of the passengers had gone to bed. At 1 a.m., 120 miles east of Miami, many were awakened by the smell of smoke seeping under their cabin doors. The Yarmouth Castle, a 5,000-ton, 38-year-old veteran under Panamanian registry, was on fire...