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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seamanship of Lebanon's fisherfolk that staved off further disaster. Hero of the hour was Radwan Baltaji, the leathery little chief of Beirut's harbor pilots. On the second day, Radwan, in his jaunty red tarboosh, breached the raging surf in his tiny pilot boat and maneuvered into the shelter of the British cruiser Kenya, which had raced to the rescue from Suez. Using the cruiser's steel bulk as a floating breakwater, Radwan swerved broadside to the waves and slid into the quiet water in the lee of the wreck. Sixty-three women & children climbed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Wreck of the Champollion | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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