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First-aiders removed temporary dressings applied on shipboard, wound on permanent ones. Only occasionally did they overlap, bandage a seaman a third time. Canteen workers sent up coffee and sandwiches. (Before they were through, canteeners served 500 meals, 1,000 cups of coffee, 250 sandwiches.) At about 11 o'clock another boatload came in, got the same treatment...
...That the only body to ever wash ashore at Virginia Beach during 1941 and 1942 was that of a seaman who was washed overboard while trying to catch a line from a pilot's boat at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay. This could have happened in peacetime...
...Hottest thing on seven seas" is the Arctic supply route to Russia, said a British seaman named Edward S. Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying supplies to Murmansk. "Ships sailing to or from Murmansk," he said, "go into action almost the first day out against surface craft and submarines." Confirming such accounts of Arctic peril, the Admiralty announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some...
...Hollered Seaman Joe Curran, who naturally had no liking for the idea of tough Joe Kennedy as shipping boss: "If you want to win the war you don't put in a key spot, like shipping, a man who wants to make peace with Hitler." But so far, no one had mentioned anyone else...
...ships were sunk off the coast of the Carolinas with eleven lives lost. One of them listened helplessly for half an hour to the engines of the approaching submarine, watched it fire two torpedoes in full view of the crew. A rescued seaman from the second ship had to swim two and a half miles, diving under patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried...