Word: tugboaters
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...Holland's ocean-going tugboat fleet, they tell some beguiling yarns about a young captain, name of Martinus Harinxma. Once, lost in a fog in a minefield, he unerringly determined his ship's position by tasting a sample of sea bottom brought up by the lead; while towing the Shah of Persia's yacht to the Caspian Sea via Russia, he smuggled two girls aboard at Stockholm and kept an orgy going in the Shah's big oval bed during the crossing to Leningrad...
...service between Havana and San Juan, and the U.S. refused to let Fidel fly his athletes in aboard Cuban Ilyushins. Furthermore, warned Washington, any Cuban ship trying to land them in Puerto Rico would be seized on the spot. The Cubans finally made the scene aboard a Puerto Rican tugboat, which ferried them ashore from a Cuban freighter that dropped anchor just outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade them to defect. Officials turned up with telephones, at the other...
Able Seaman Liang Chin-kai 23, was working on the deck of a tugboat in Canton harbor when he got involved in a classic accident that is dreaded by all sailors. His leg was tangled in a towing cable that suddenly snapped tight, all but amputating his right foot at the ankle joint. At Chung Shan Medical College Hospital No. 1 two hours later, Doctors Huang Cheng-ta and Li Pingheng, both 36, were faced with an extraordinary operation: the restoration of a foot attached to Liang's leg only by shreds of muscle, tendon and nerve...
...Showboat' of my day, a full ship of the line," announces a ghostly voice, and the show is on. There is the sound of a champagne bottle cracking and metal scraping, followed by a splash, tugboat whistles, horns, and handclapping. As the noise recedes from the stands and the lights are doused progressively from the stern to the bow, the huge ship actually seems to move down the ways...
Died. Emmet McCormack, 84, co-founder and retired chairman of MooreMcCormack Lines, who at the age of 14 became what he liked to call "the world's first syndicated office boy" by working for four companies at $1 each per week, bashed about New York harbor as a tugboat captain before he joined the late Albert Moore in 1913 to form their own shipping company, which now ranks as the country's third biggest with 40 freighters, two passenger liners; of a series of strokes; in West Palm Beach...