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...mine fields. Nowadays, he and Mrs. Brown live quietly on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where summer boarders and the radio provide the chief excitement. One night last winter, tuning around on his all-wave radio, Captain Brown picked up a sure-enough distress call from a tanker aground off Newport, called the U. S. Coast Guard, brought about the rescue...
...ship's officers taken from nine vessels captured and sunk by the late Admiral Graf Spee during her brief life as a sea raider. Some of them had been placed for a time aboard a secretly built auxiliary warship, the Altmark, a 12,000-tonner disguised as a tanker but hiding three 6-inch guns behind shutters and capable of 25 knots. Besides fueling the Spee (the last time, five days before the battle of Punta del Este), the Altmark was fitted with prison cells in her holds. Here the Spec's captives were-perhaps still are-verminously...
...Boston, Second Officer Wilhelm Harren of the German tanker Pauline Friederich, which took refuge there four months ago carrying $250,000 worth of lubricants, last week filed a libel action in Federal court, demanding that the vessel be sold to satisfy his claim of $98.60 in back wages, and more for the hungry crew. Wilhelm Harren of Hamburg announced he was through with the Nazi regime. His spokesman: Boston Attorney Hyman Katz...
...Told last week was the bizarre bravery of the crew of the tanker San Alberto, torpedoed in two off Land's End on Dec. 9. When they saw the stern half of their ship still floating nicely, they rowed their lifeboat alongside, reboarded her, got up steam and backed toward shore. A rising sea finally foundered their half-ship. This episode reminded sailors of the destroyers Nubian and Zulu in World War I. The Nubian was torpedoed, lost her bow, but her crew made shore with the after half. The Zulu, which lost her stern striking a mine...
LONDON -- The 9,141-ton British tanker Inverlane struck a mine and burned at sea with a probable death toll of 33, it was revealed tonight when survivors were landed from another mined tanker, the Atheltemplar, which witnessed the Inverlane...