Word: sos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon received a reply from Angmagsalik that the Scotch trawler Lord Talbot would rescue them within two hours. Breaking waves quickly put the set out of commission. Pilot Hutchinson taxied the crippled ship to shore where the family and crew salvaged what they could before...
...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
Author James Gould Cozzens undoubtedly had in mind the end of Lamport & Holt Line's Vestris which, commanded by a seaman whose brain had been replaced by a fearful vacillation which caused him to delay some six hours before sending out an SOS, dragged 110 people to death three years ago (TIME...
Retiring. Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, 61, commodore of the Cunard Fleet, captain of the Berengaria. When the Titanic sank in 1912, the Carpathia, of which he was then captain, received the SOS, rescued 706 survivors. For this he received a gold medal from Congress, a letter of thanks from President Taft...
...roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew of 18. The Fairfax was doused in flame. Human torches rushed about, dove vainly for relief into the blazing sea. Down came the lifeboats, their ropes burned away; down came the radio antenna, before an SOS was sounded. On the top deck Mrs. Neil A. Dayton, Wartime Red Cross nurse in the Army service, wife of the director of Massachusetts' Department of Mental Diseases, breathed hot fumes, fell prostrate. When revived, she tried to escape by swinging over the side to the deck below...