Word: ship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long after little Hollis and his mother went to bed, as the ship's bell struck midnight, they were all but thrown from their berths by a lurch of the vessel. Half awake, the child could hear screams, shrieks, the anguished cries of the humans in great peril. Quickly his mother bundled him in her arms, rushed him through a fear-tormented mob to the deck. Stars had disappeared. On the foggy deck, indistinct figures ran about, cursing and praying for life preservers...
...calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
...testimony could the captain of the San Juan give. He, Capt. Adolph F. Asplund, grizzled 65-year-old sea dog, had gone down with his ship. Strangely, it had been a "friendship" voyage for him. For three years retired, he had accommodated a brother captain desirous of a vacation...
...Chicago, which ached so for the ship's sight that her rathäusers telegraphed Commander Eckener that the trip could not be a success unless the Graf Zeppelin visited the second U. S. city, climbed porches, poles and pinnacles. Photographers Robert Hartman and Baron von Perckhammer aboard the ship "nearly went crazy trying to do photographic justice to the scene." Then to Detroit she went, where lay the new little all-metal dirigible (TIME, Sept. 2). Dr. Eckener stopped eating caviar & bread to exclaim: "I never saw such tremendous cities as there are in America." A breath of Canadian...
...morning watch (4 a.m. to 8 a.m.) took his post he had a dirty murk to peer into. It was not the kind of night that makes men love the sea, but soon the lookout heard something that made him glad he was on a ship. Coming closer, droning deep amid the seethe and hiss of the waves, he heard an airplane's motor. Then he saw an airplane, flying low to the waves. It was headed east-toward Europe...