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...Seaman Herman remembered it precisely. It was 11:30 in the morning, Sunday, Sept. 13, when the Germans opened their attack. The convoy was off Spitsbergen, in the Arctic Ocean...
Because he was fed up with coastwise tankers after two years, Seaman Federick Herman of Fayetteville, N.Y. had signed on for the Atlantic run. His thought that Sunday morning, when the alarm bell rang, was: "Here I am on a Liberty ship jammed to the gunwales with Russian supplies in the biggest convoy the British have tried to punch through. So the Germans will put on their biggest show." He ran on deck...
...game, the Yardlings were outclassed by the sailors and went down only after battling for three full quarters. Freshman offensive efforts were hampered by a lack of experience that was telling against a well-trained seaman outfit. The tars, who play soccer the way Americans toss about a baseball, were older, steadier, and trickier...
...Russian-born U.S. merchant seaman just back from Murmansk said last week...
Almost lost in the rush of symbolic "firsts" was studious, bespectacled, 56-year-old Hugh Mulzac. In 1907 he was an ordinary seaman in full-rigged British ships. He climbed to able seaman, boatswain, quartermaster, became a U.S. citizen and got his second mate's papers in 1918. Within two years he had the only U.S. master's certificate ever issued a Negro, a double-riveted whole-hog "any ocean, any tonnage" ticket. Still going up, he got a command: the British registry Yarmouth in the West Indies-Central America trade. Not much of a ship, perhaps...