Word: torbatross
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother. Twice in peacetime he had been forced to parachute from airplanes; during World War II he crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck of the U.S. battleship Texas in Chesapeake Bay. Three years later, his powerboat, Valiant, went down in the Gulf of Mexico, and once more Harvey escaped with his life. The sinking of the Bluebelle, insisted friends, was all that Harvey could stand...
Other late-blooming suspicions were cast on the wreck of the Torbatross. Last week David P. Harrison, one of Harvey's passengers on that trip, reported: "I remember we sailed around the wreck twice. Harvey said he was trying to read the markings on the buoy." Said Jack Stone, former commodore of the Capital Yacht Club, home berth of the Torbatross: "Everybody who has sailed those waters knows about the Texas and just stays away from her. The wreck is way off course. You have to work at it to find her." Yet a federal court awarded Harvey...
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