Word: tarabotto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the whole voyage tall, patrician, spear-bearded Captain Francesco Tarabotto of the Rex snatched scarcely two hours sleep out of each 24, constantly paced the bridge. Below decks the four turbines of 130,000 rated horsepower and the 14 boilers which burn 700 tons of oil a day to drive the Rex at her usual 26 knots were devouring 1,100 tons. As jovial, ruddy Chief Engineer Luigi Risso turned on more & more steam, pushed up the pace from the Rex's fast norm to a terrific, record average speed of 28.92 knots both officers and passengers noticed...
Passengers, who included such aristocrats of Rome's oldest families as Prince Domenico Orsini and Princess Maria Borghese, learned officially of Italy's great triumph on the night before reaching Manhattan when they read this notice sent down from the bridge by weary but exuberant Captain Tarabotto: "Notwithstanding great part of crossing hindered by strong opposite winds and heavy fog, Rex beats all preceding records as to speed as well as to time spent in crossing Atlantic Ocean. . . . Such result entitles the Rex to the blue ribbon...
...Manhattan harbor the Rex, decked with code flags, received flag and siren salutes from liners, ferryboats and tugs, reached her pier amid frenzied cheering. After sounding the Rex's great whistle one last time Captain Tarabotto rushed into his cabin, "I cried like a child!" he said afterward. "I wept for my beloved dead mother that I could not send her news of this great...
...satisfied," beamed Captain Tarabotto...
...Captain Tarabotto (while lights flickered, grating noises were heard and the Rex slowed down to bare steering way. creeping past Malaga): "The trouble has nothing to do with the main engines. It has to do with one of the turbodynamos which supply current for lighting, ventila- tion and cooking...