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...Cunard-White Star Line officers must do on reaching 60, Captain John W. Binks of the S. S. Olympic prepared last week to quit the sea after 45 years in steam & sail. Memorable indeed was the last westbound trip of the Olympic's florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take...
...CAPTAIN CAUTION, by Kenneth Roberts (Double day, Doran, $2.50). A salty sea and smashing romance p r o v i d e the interest in this thriller, built with the War of 1812 as a background. A Maine skipper abandons the ordinary life of the "old salt" and turns privateer to provide the reader with high adventure. The routine of his new business is not routine for the reader, however, and Writer Roberts h a s avoided even the slightest possibility of your experiencing a dull moment...
Best-known shipmaster in the U. S. Merchant Marine, Captain Fried, at 57, is famed for his ocean rescues-25 men from the British freighter Antinoe in 1926, 32 men from the Italian freighter Florida in 1929. Month ago, as skipper of the S. S. Washington, he sent out a lifeboat to pick up the survivors of a cinema-chartered plane which crashed 600 mi. at sea, while trying to take off newsreels of King Alexander's assassination (TIME, Oct. 22). For that rescue Captain Fried, standing last week for the last time in the shadow of the Washington...
...Head of Kinsale. Within two minutes the ship literally sank beneath Claret's feet and left him kicking in the water. Forty-three lives were lost. Captain Claret and more than 100 others floated more than an hour before a British patrol boat sighted them. The skipper of the patrol boat recognized the Minnehaha's captain in the water, boomed out: "I say, is that you, Claret?" "Aye, it's me!" Claret boomed back. Pneumonia nearly killed him after that...
...famed was his powerful voice. He never used a megaphone when docking his ship, and many a sailor used to say no ship needed a foghorn so long as "Tommy" Gates was on the bridge. Sociable, he was known to many & many a passenger as a pipe-smoking, teetotaling skipper who danced two hours every night of clear weather. During the War he saved the lives of 1,800 troops and seamen by beaching the original Minnewaska on the Island of Crete after she had struck a mine in Mudro Bay. For that her master was decorated with the order...