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Bound from Manila to San Diego last year, Commander Whitemarsh found his 477-ft. navy tanker Ramapo wallowing up & down the slopes of waves the like of which he had never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably...
...Caribbean, then struck straight at Mexico's big oil port, Tampico. Rivers rose, wires were down, rails were up. For hours on end no one knew what had happened, then, from the sputtering wireless of ships that managed to ride the gale came the first reports. The German tanker Kiel flashed: '"Most immense tragedy. Impossible to imagine extent. Those parts of city not destroyed by wind now ten to fifteen feet under water." From Mexico City came word that it would be at least a week before trains could reach the striken city. Meanwhile planes roared out loaded...
...three weeks ago Tanker TN-78, bearing a cargo of molasses, sank in the Mohawk River near Little Falls, N. Y. Few days later the river began to grow white with the bellies of thousands of dead perch, dead carp, dead whitefish. The Conservation Department reported last week that the molasses had glued up the gills through which the perch, carp and whitefish breathed...
...Committee heard the remainder of Deal's story: how he swam to a floating gas tank to which three other men were clinging; how they struggled to keep the open spout of the tank above water; how all hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled...
...there was a witness. On the bridge of the German tanker Phœbus, butting the storm under ballast, stood Capt. Dalldorf, taking a turn himself on the second mate's midnight watch. Gazing upward at the ugly sky, he saw, to his astonishment, the flashing red & green lights of an airship...