Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances," announced the Admiralty, "thirty seamen so far forgot their duties as to remain below and shut themselves in when ordered to parade on deck for duty. ... In consequence, the men were arrested and taken in custody to the naval barracks...
Several of the 52 ships affected by the agreement will be transferred to other runs but some will be laid up for the remainder of the winter. Not a few British seamen will thus be thrown out of work...
...Delaware Capes for 68 bitter-cold hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...
...flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date, destined soon to be scrapped. She will die with her head up. Last week the Navy Department announced that the Rochester's seamen, with the Rochester's equipment, had won the Battle Efficiency Pennant-for excellence in gunnery, engineering and communications- most coveted ship honor, during the last competitive year in the cruiser class...
...last week that destroyers could not navigate it. To rescue U. S. citizens the flatdecked little Palos which can float wherever it is three feet deep, nosed its way over the sandbars to Changsha. Bandit bullets ricocheted off her armored deck house, wounded five U. S. seamen. Loaded with refugees, the Palos dropped down stream again...