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After surviving the hazards of floating mines, surface raiders, and dive bombers on a convey to Murmansk, seaman Winthrop Haskell is back in Cambridge studying to be a third mate. Souvenirs of his seven-month voyage are the current drawing card at the Russian War Relief headquarters on Dunster Street...
Cinemactor Henry Fonda, father of three, reported to the Navy in Los Angeles for duty as an apprentice seaman...
...prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok-the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok tree-is the buoyant filling of most life jackets, many life rafts and lifeboat airtight compartments. It can support up to 35 times its own weight. In peacetime, kapok's biggest use was in mattresses, upholstery padding and the like. Most (and the best) kapok came from Java. The Japs put a stop to that. Now, as demand soars, rigidly...
Nomenology. In Indianapolis, a landlubber named Seaman Randolph Seaman enlisted, appropriately...
There was a low overcast. On the steel-grey ocean. Allied merchantmen were scattered from horizon to horizon. But some of the escort ships, tossing white water in their haste, had swerved from their courses to concentrate in one area. A Russian freighter, near enough for Seaman Herman to see the sailors on her deck, had already been torpedoed and was sinking. Astern of her another merchantman began to founder in the icy sea. Herman's ship could not wait. Rescue work, what there was time for, was up to the warships...