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...Lord Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, Baron Eddisbury of Winnington and a Baronet, served in a trawler, an ex-U.S. destroyer, a gunboat, during World War II, never in a corvette. For a comparison of corvettes, see cuts...
Olmstead and McKone plopped into the "extremely cold and rough" Barents Sea, were kept afloat by their automatically inflated individual life rafts until they were picked up about six hours later by a Soviet fishing trawler. They never saw any of the other crew members.-Olmstead and McKone spent the next seven months in Russian prisons, most of the time in solitary confinement. Their cells were cramped and chilly. Strong lights burned steadily, 24 hours a day. Subsisting on "small but regular quantities of rice, macaroni products and boiled meat," they lost about 40 pounds apiece during their imprisonment. They...
Then Iceland announced that it would enforce a new fisheries limit: twelve miles. British trawler captains who disregarded the Icelandic ultimatum and penetrated within the twelve-mile limit found themselves accosted by the belligerent Icelandic coast guard. The British navy steamed to the rescue, provided frigate escorts for the invading fishermen. Tempers flared, the NATO alliance (to which both belong) was endangered and shots were fired-although mostly blanks...
...traced their escape route through Mexico City to Fidel Castro's Havana, which is apparently the new jumping-off point for Moscow. The rest of the trip was possibly by Soviet trawler. Martin and Mitchell themselves were smugly silent about their escape route because, they said, other defectors may want to follow them...
...fences in the Pacific, in the Middle East and in the Arctic north. The Russians, for their part, send a weekly fight of radar-snooping planes along Japan's northeast coasts with such unfailing regularity that it is known as the "Tokyo Express." Three months ago, the Soviet trawler Vega made a much-photographed nuisance of herself oT the U.S. Atlantic Coast-taking bearings on U.S. coastal radars, barging boldly into the midst of fleet and Air Force maneuvers. On one occasion, in a practice session off Long Island, the U.S. nuclear sub George Washington fired a dummy Polaris...