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...ship then sailed to Sete, a French city on the Mediterranean coast, to pick up its refugee cargo...
...British had warned Italy not to let the ship sail, and an Italian gunboat prevented its departure. A clever Italian woman, the liaison between the Jews and the Italian government, coerced an Italian admiral into diverting the gunboat...
First, the ship had to be repaired. Members of the Jewish underground recruited 40 men, mostly Americans, through Jewish men's clubs, synagogues and word-of-mouth to rebuild the S.S. President Warfield...
Lavine, one of the 40 original volunteers, described the ship and crew's long struggle to reach Palestine. After a storm nearly destroyed the ship on its first day at sea, it limped to Porto Venere, Italy, where the crew gutted the luxurious interior to fit it with bunks for 4,500 people...
...British again subtly intervened--they bribed the operator of the tugboat responsible for pulling the ship out to sea. In a risky move, the Exodus crew distracted guards and cut the cable to the tugboat...