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Some 3,000 civilians sailed from Manhattan for Europe last week. The Cunard White Star Line's Queen Mary took out 1,228; the graceful old Aquitania (probably the only four-stacker remaining afloat) carried 483; the Holland-America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam had 500 aboard...
...ground out 90. On the Reynolds, whipped together from keel up in 24½ days, it claimed a world's record. (It reminded Hingham's 34-year-old General Superintendent, Samuel L. Wakeman, of how his father, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, had turned out a four-stacker in 45 days at nearby Squantum during World...
...destroyer Murray sighted the Japanese hospital ship Taka-sago Maru, bore down on her and ordered her to heave to. In two small boats, a party of 26 heavily armed Americans, led by the Murray's executive officer, Lieut. Commander Robert H. White, approached the dingy white two-stacker...
...that chalk down. The Iroquois was indeed a double-stacker, but one stack was sacked when it became the Solace, because the Navy liked it that...
...could mean only that a carrier was in the vicinity. But carrier escort, too, was unusual for an ordinary convoy. Hours later the crew spotted the answer: up over the horizon came a "baby flattop," a carrier converted from a merchantman, escorted by several old four-stacker destroyers. By blinker light the little carrier reported...