Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after the U.S. Navy sent a boarding party from the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy O. Hale to the Soviet trawler Novorossisk in the North Atlantic to investigate the cause of breaks in five transatlantic submarine cables (TIME, March 9), the Russians lodged a predictable protest. Charges that the Novorossisk had cut the cables were a "fabrication," said the Soviets. Moreover, the U.S. action was based on "provocative aims." From the U.S. last week went a cool reply that 1) dismissed the protest as unfounded, 2) pointedly documented the "strong presumption" that the Russian trawler had indeed...
...cable itself had obviously got fouled in the Novorossisk's trawling gear, been raised to the deck, then cut to release the nets. In all, there were twelve cuts in the five cables (nine tension breaks and three man-made cuts), all made in the vicinity of the trawler's operations. The U.S. reserved the right to make claims for damages and demanded that the Soviets take "such measures as are necessary to punish those who may be found to be guilty...
...called in half a dozen members of his staff and laid out the story. That morning, A.T. & T. had sent a plane over the trouble spot, dropped a note on the Novorossisk's deck: YOU HAVE CUT THE CABLE FOUR TIMES: STOP FISHING HERE AND GO SOUTH. The trawler moved a few miles. Burke's Judge Advocate General, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, then made a precedent-setting proposal: Send a Navy party aboard the Russian ship. Lawyer Ward cited an international covenant, signed by Czarist Russia and specifically recognized by the Communists since 1926. The Convention...
Photographic Commissar. Under command of Lieut. Donald Sheely, 34, the Minnesota-born, Annapolis-trained executive officer, Hale's motor whaleboat approached the trawler's starboard quarter, was waved to the portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
...friendly nor hostile-just resigned") permitted Sheely to examine the ship's papers (all in order) and the ship's log. From log notations, Sheely found that Novorossisk had indeed been plowing the seas near the cables at the time of the interruptions. Experts' consensus: the trawler's heavily weighted nets had fouled in the cables; when the fishermen raised the nets, they raised the cables too, and the cables were broken or cut away to save the trawling gear.*After a 70-min. tour of the ship, Sheely asked the captain to move his fishing...