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Captain Vincent Astor, peacetime yachtsman (the Nourmahal), was awarded the Navy Commendation Ribbon in Manhattan for "meritorious performance . . . initiative, unflagging energy and devotion" to administrative duties with the Confidential Fishing Vessel Observers, who watched for subs while fishing along the Atlantic Coast...
Service Resumed. The first passenger vessel from the U.S. since early 1942 nosed its way between the coral reefs that line the channel into Hamilton, Bermuda. She was the Furness, Withy & Cox, Ltd.'s trim, flag-bedecked, 3,500-ton Fort Townsend, carrying 31 passengers and 830 tons of cargo...
...Japs also had landed a blow: a bomber leveled off in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, and sent its torpedo crashing into a "major U.S. war vessel" (carrier or battleship...
...ship, radar is insurance against collision with icebergs, rocks or other ships; it can take a vessel at full speed through a crowded harbor and dock it in the foggiest weather. In the air, radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well oriented as if he were flying over his living-room rug, would ward off collisions with mountains and other planes. It would, of course, prevent such accidents as the Army bomber's crash into the Empire State Building last month...
...life jacket would not inflate. Exquisitely balancing the principles of survival and buoyancy, Knight drank half the water in his canteen, poured out the rest, stoppered it and tied it to his belt. It was still helping him float more than three hours later when a Navy surface vessel picked...