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...castoffs were lucky. They had plenty of food and water and, though they lacked a radio, they were in the middle of a trade route. Further, they knew that somewhere behind them was the S.S. Rappahannock, another bomb-laden freighter also bound for Thailand. As night fell, they spotted the lights of the Rappahannock, fired off five flares, and were eventually picked...
Misty Motives. The Rappahannock tried all that night and next morning to make radio contact with the Columbia Eagle, but it was not until afternoon that the Eagle finally acknowledged. The radio operator said that the Eagle had been hijacked by two crew members, one of whom was then standing with a gun at the operator's head. What the mutineers intended, the operator did not know. A later message said that the pair "stated from the beginning that if the Cambodian government would not seize the vessel, they would scuttle it." The radioman gave the names...
Interviewed by Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News, the rescued crewmen on the Rappahannock hooted at reports that McKay and Glatkowski might have acted out of political motives. One said that neither of them could tell "Marx from Lenin." The majority opinion was that both were high on pot, as they had been all through the voyage...
...Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was planning a dirty scientific trick to play on schools of herring and menhaden off the Maine coast last week. At Boothbay Harbor, Me., the 139-ft. "pogy" (menhaden) boat Rappahannock is fitted with a 52-h.p. compressor that delivers 196 cu. ft. of air at the pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. The idea is to shoot the air through perforated tubes sunk in the water near schools of fish. Curtains of bubbles rising from the perforations look to the fish like an impassable barrier and shoo them toward the Rappahannock...
When the bubble-bothered fish approach the Rappahannock, they will lose control of their swimming muscles. Pulses of electric current shot into the water from electrodes will make their tails wiggle rhythmically, steering them helplessly toward the ship. When they get close enough, the intake current of a powerful fish pump will suck them aboard. If this system works as the bureau hopes, it will revolutionize the business of harvesting fish that travel in dense schools...