Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to glance aloft, see the sky blotted out by the crest of the wave before it broke over them, hurled men the entire length of the bridge. Small sounds in the Niagara thunder of the blow were the smashing of glass, furniture, superstructure, screams of passengers that the ship was going down, shrieks of the injured...
Cabin Boy Paul Johnson, who had just emerged from the "glory hole," was swept overboard clutching a shipmate's spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed...
After ten days of a nightmare voyage the President Harding steamed into New York Harbor, flag at half-mast for Cabin Boy Johnson, and while three uninjured members of the ship's band played The Sidewalks of New York, warped into her pier, where 18 ambulances waited, rushed 26 to hospitals. From her hold were removed 25 automobiles, most of them virtual wrecks, to be towed away...
...Twenty minutes later the U-boat fired three or four torpedoes and these, striking in quick succession, caused the ship to capsize and sink." Final figures from the Admiralty put the dead at 810, survivors...
...rose even higher. We saw one waterspout after another followed by a series of huge explosions-white, red and green lights in a fireworks display such as I never had seen before. Pieces of deckwork, masts and smokestacks flew up into the air, giving the impression that the entire ship was blown completely to smithereens...