Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most concerned to read your May 28 reference to our S.S. City of Chicago [photographed by U.S. Navy patrol planes sent out to check on ships suspected of carrying cargoes into Siberian or Chinese ports...
...City of Chicago has at no time called at either Siberian or Chinese ports . . . This vessel, in the course of her last voyage, loaded a cargo of lumber at Otaru, Hokkaido, North Japan, for London and it may be that it was during her passage either to or from this port that the aeroplane sighted this vessel...
...They're Not Fooling Anyone." The big Privateer buzzed the lumbering freighter almost at the mouth of a major Siberian harbor. Some crewmen caught on deck waved, probably in embarrassment. Or maybe you only imagined that, because you'd be embarrassed. Others scurried for hatches and doorways...
Back in Japan we had leafed through the files. We had seen hundreds of ships photographed, heading for Siberian or Chinese ports. Many-perhaps the majority-flew the Panama flag. But there were also pictures of British-one incongruously named City of Chicago-Greek, Russian, French and Japanese ships in the telltale files. All had been snapped since the first of the year. Some had deck cargoes-lumber, steel. Others were laden with oil for the tanks of Red China. Some were shown coming back empty...
...left Siberian waters and headed down the coast toward Japan. Out at sea, Lieut. McCord lifted the ship several thousand feet. It was dark when we landed. Lieut. Commander Nittinger was waiting for us. He invited us to stay for dinner...