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...Seaman and Class, U.S.N...
...many a U.S. merchant seaman facing danger on the high seas, two organizations stand head & shoulders above all others. One of them is an obvious object of professional admiration: the U.S. Navy. But the other would stump most guessers. It is the unpaid, volunteer Civil Air Patrol. Men in ships, hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather...
When World War II broke, Ausborn tried to get a job as ordinary seaman in Canada's merchant marine. He was no longer called a Red and a troublemaker. Now he was a German. He was turned down, and so was his son when he tried to join the army...
...Nantucket. At noon of the next day a British destroyer located her off the tip of Cape Cod. The seas were running too high to take anyone off, but the Britisher took her in tow and headed for Halifax. But the adventures of the 3070 had only begun. Seaman Toivo Koskinen was on deck trying to rig a chafing gear when a wave swept him overboard. Another wave picked him up and swept him back. This time a shipmate grabbed him. In the blackness of night the towline snapped; the destroyer was lost to sight. The 3070 wallowed on, lost...
Young Captain Patrick Bannon, a "sound chip off an old Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...