Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief sufferers were 111 of the Batory's 683 passengers who were hustled off to Ellis Island because of "doubtful citizenship," medical reexamination, or some lingering doubt about their bonds. (Normally only a dozen to a score of passengers on an arriving vessel are held for inquiry.) Most, if not all, would speedily be freed after a session with a board of inquiry. This week, the Batory sailed for England again-32 minutes late and with 838 passengers this time. The Government looked a little small with its big empty...
Three days at sea, the 16,000-ton Polish motorship Batory radioed a routine passenger count back to New York. It ended, ". . . additional, one stowaway, first-class passage paid." As required by law, the Gdynia America Line, operators of the vessel, forwarded the message to U.S. Immigration officials...
Once he had got away, why had he given the ship's purser his right name? If he were being smuggled out by Communists in the vessel's crew, why had he even been reported as a stowaway...
...dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel, and kick the Gdynia America Line out of New York if the captain didn't listen to reason...
Floating Luggage. The Pasado was a yacht all right, but she had been built in the mid-'20s to accommodate six people. The 96-foot vessel had done a hitch in the Coast Guard during the war, and she was greasy, grimy and sooty. Later the passengers agreed that they should have backed out right then & there. But Charlie said things would be cleaned up on the way to Honolulu...