Word: rafting
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...trap, baited with cynical confidence that a U.S. merchant ship would observe the law of the sea and relay a distress signal, thereby revealing her position. As the lifeboats were lowered, machine-gun fire forced the occupants to leap into the sea and swim for a raft. Later the captain said he was sure the raider had launched at least two motorboats because the attack came from three sides. Within half an hour the cargo ship went down. Out of the darkness the raider loomed closer to the spot...
...made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued men. They were given tea and black bread, questioned by the commander in perfect English. Two hours later the submarine surfaced, put the two seamen aboard a raft with water, hardtack and instructions to head south...
...Manhattan Federal agents were busy investigating the finances of Cinemactor George Raft, trying to recover $236,603.60 allegedly due in back income taxes...
...Pilot-Officer of the RCAF, Mahn was engaged in "air operations overseas." When his bomber was forced down over the Dutch coast Mahn and two others of the crew of four managed to climb aboard their raft. That night one man died, and the other a few days later. Sustained only by rain water and raw fish, Mahn managed to survive the bitter cold of the North Sea with only severely frozen feet, until picked up by a British torpedo boat...
...jumped overboard, swam around patches of blazing oil, cried out to a passing mine sweeper, was hauled aboard. Next day the mine sweeper was attacked and burned by Italian torpedo boats whose fire killed all the mine sweeper's gunners. Again Downes went overside, swam to a raft, from which he was rescued by a British torpedo plane and taken to Matr...