Word: pedersen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying their flag upside down by day, lighting flares by night, they drifted for three days. At nightfall of the third day the American Farmer came along, headed from London to New York with Captain H. A. Pedersen in command. Soon the lucky eight, like the crews of the Vestris, Antinoe, Florida, many another hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater...
...Gene Mako 8. Helen Pedersen...
...seemed no less incredible to the Mohawk's surviving officers. Chief Officer Pedersen, who had been below when the vessels struck, told a Federal Steamboat Inspection Board in Manhattan: "I've been thinking and thinking and thinking, and I can't explain...
Conflicting testimony was offered as to whether the Mohawk's automatic steering mechanism had failed. Chief Officer Pedersen said Captain Wood told him it had. Chief Engineer Martin said this was news to him. Quartermaster Mardy Polander said that not only had the wheel been "tough to handle," but that 20 minutes before the collision "it was impossible to keep the Mohawk on her course." Against this Deck Engineer Snyder reported he had tested the steering mechanism ten minutes before the crash, and again after it, that on both occasions he found it "a little stiff, but all right...
...Pedersen '31, was recently announced as winner of the $1000 first prize in the comprehensive examination contest for college art students, given by the College Art Association, and supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Honorable mention was awarded to H. E. Scott...