Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bradley snapped like a stick. A few minutes later, as seamen in the forward part of the vessel pulled on their jackets and fought toward the rails, the stricken craft rolled over. First Mate Fleming and Deck Watchman Frank Mays pulled themselves onto a 4-by-8-ft. raft, began shouting to the others. "The sea was so great that men were hidden," said Fleming later. "We saw someone near and shouted him over to us." It was Deck Watchman Gary Strzelecki...
...Bradley died in the mad sea. Cries of struggling sailors grew fainter; the buoy flares were snuffed out. The three men on the raft spotted Deck Hand Dennis Meredith and pulled him aboard. They found five flares and a sea anchor inside the hatch of the raft. It was more than an hour later that they saw a rescue ship, the German motor vessel Christian Sartori. Fleming shot four flares, but the Sartori did not see them. Still the rescue ship, rolling as much as 50°, plunged toward the raft...
...gigantic wave swept the men into the water. They fought their way back aboard. The Sartori's searchlight swept over the raft, but flashed away again. As the ship came closer, Fleming frantically tore at his last flare. At first, he could not get through the protective casing. He chewed at it, got it open-but it would not ignite. The Sartori moved...
They were indeed mere minutes. It was about 11:30 p.m. when the biggest wave crested. Straight up into the air went the raft, and into the sea once more the men were flung. Mays got back first, then Strzelecki, and then Fleming. They called for Meredith, but they heard nothing, saw nothing...
...parents made their decision. George Wolfe, 54, a storekeeper for the Camas Prairie Railroad, packed his family off to a log cabin on an abandoned gold-mining claim in the isolated, rugged Salmon River Canyon, 80 miles from the nearest high school, eight miles by rubber raft from the nearest road. There Reho Wolfe, who once attended a normal school, set up a school-within-a-home, arranged for texts, lessons and tests through a correspondence course. Wolfe, a high school graduate, who has had music training, continued his job in Lewiston, commuted to the cabin on weekends, when...