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...South Pacific, as it had for four months past. The deck was awash in 3 ft. of water; to the roof of the deckhouse there clung five sick and starving men, Eric de Bisschop and his four-man crew. Ahead of them lay the foam-edged sickle of the reef of Rakahanga in the northern Cook Islands. They had already missed landfalls at the Tuamotus, at Starbuck and Penrhyn Islands. There was no option but to shoot the reef at Rakahanga in the hope of reaching the calm lagoon and the fresh water and food that lay beyond...
...Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship last week, wind and fog exacted taut performances from the 12-meter U.S. yachts in the second series of trials for the role of defender in September's battle for the America's Cup. But while Sceptre, the British challenger, nimbly outran its own trial horse (a U.S. 12-meter named Gleam), the U.S. contenders knocked one another off in a bewildering series of form reversals. At week's end only Easterner looked a loser. Still in the running: Skipper Briggs Cunningham's Columbia, Arthur Knapp Jr.'s Weatherly...
...spectator boats rocked in the mildly choppy seas off Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship one morning last week, four sleek twelve-meters began the first of a series of races. Eight weeks from now, the winner will be named to defend the America's Cup against British challenger Sceptre (TIME, July...
...tooth on a cheese soufflé, get bitten by the gentlest of Chihuahuas, lose a big poker pot holding four kings. Some ships are like that-for example, the U.S. Navy's destroyer escort Silverstein. During World War II, Silver stein* went aground on a Hawaiian coral reef, later was damaged in a typhoon. Fortnight ago, a locker of depth-charge-launcher cartridges exploded aboard the ship, injuring five crewmen...
...installations and government patrol boats in the harbor. The B-26 shuddered, and two men bailed out before it died in a splash of sea spray. One, an Indonesian rebel, was fished out of the water. The other got his parachute fouled in a palm tree on a coral reef, and, in freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen Pope, 29, was an ex-Air Force first lieutenant, who won the D.F.C. in the Korean war, became...