Word: reboarded
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...Byron Voutsinas, the Castle's 33-year-old Greek skipper, disappeared after the order to abandon ship, the skipper explained that the flames had cut him off from the stern of the ship, where most passengers were huddled. So, said Voutsinas, he climbed into a lifeboat intending to reboard her astern, but decided instead to carry injured passengers in the boat to the rescue ship Finnpulp. Another reason for accompanying them, his lawyer maintained, was to ask the Finnpulp to radio an S O S to other ships-which the Finnish freighter had already done. Many crewmen accused their...
...deterrent by laying bare the Communist empire's northern shores to the future Polaris-missile-toting nuclear submarines; 2) pioneered a potential though difficult underwater commercial trade route that remakes the map of the world. And as Anderson flew on from Washington at week's end to reboard Nautilus and take her into harbor at Portland, England, he left behind with President Eisenhower the letter he had written in longhand at the big moment. "Dear Mr. President," it read. "I hope, sir, that you will accept this letter as a memento of a voyage of importance...