Word: shalom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unmistakable Sound. On the Shalom (Peace), just three hours out of New York on a Caribbean cruise, New York Pharmacist Stephen Tannenbaum and his wife Barbara were among the late-stayers at a Thanksgiving Eve party. Shortly after 2 a.m., they were dancing the cha cha cha in one of the ship's ballrooms when they were thrown to the floor and heard that horrifying dissonance-unmistakable to anyone-that means a collision at sea. On the Stolt Dagali (which means "Pride of Dagali," a Norwegian town), bound for Newark with a crew of 43 and a cargo...
First word of the disaster came to the U.S. Coast Guard's Boston station radio, which heard the faint words "Pan . . . pan . . . pan . . .," an international signal meaning that an urgent message follows. It was from the Shalom, which had a 40-ft.-long gash in her bow and was shipping tons of sea water into her No. 1 hold. Minutes later, a Long Island Coast Guard radio monitored a distress call from the Stolt Dagali. The Coast Guard asked Washington's Federal Communications Commission for a radio fix on the vessels. Navy and Coast Guard helicopters and planes...
...Shalom, Captain Freudenberg ordered all watertight doors closed. "We stopped immediately after the collision," he said. "There was no panic, not the crew and not the passengers. Then we heard the cries of men in the water. We knew it was none of our people. We lowered lifeboats to search for them." The Shalom's lifeboats picked up five of the tanker's crew...
...Stolt Dagali, it had been sheared in half by the Shalom's bow. The stern section sank almost immediately, taking 19 seamen with it. Left on the bow section were ten men, including Captain Bendiksen...
...dawn, the rescue operation was over, and the Shalom was under way at slow speed back to New York. Still missing were a lot of answers. How could the collision have occurred between two ships equipped with radar that was reported to have been turned on, functioning perfectly, and being watched? And after a journey-of a mere 50 miles how could the Shalom, when it first radioed its position after the collision, give a reading 15 miles away from where it really...