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...South Atlantic. Soon night closed down over the unruffled sea and the third officer spotted lights about three miles away. Swiftly the lights grew closer to starboard. At three-quarters of a mile the approaching ship opened fire. Shells from 8-in. guns tore into the cargo vessel, quickly putting its deck guns out of action. Torpedoes from the deck tubes of the attacker plowed through the sea. On the victim's port side, tracer bullets slashed the darkness...
...Suddenly I felt a shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe out of the waves...
Evil Commander. Captain Madsen and 38 men abandoned ship when three torpedoes ripped into their Norwegian vessel, virtually splitting it in two. Near by a U-boat surfaced. Its commander shouted the usual questions, demanded the ship's name, its cargo and destination. When Captain Madsen refused to give the enemy information, the Nazis cut loose with a machine gun, wounding Madsen...
First step is to stop the spurting blood, by tourniquet or by a surgical clamp applied directly to the bleeding vessel. Next, remove blood clots (which form in about 50% of the cases) with forceps or a corkscrew of silver wire. Then, if no more than two inches of artery have been lost, the torn arterial ends can be stitched together with a hairlike needle and fine silk. The needle must not enter the tender inner lining of the artery, but only its tough coat. After the artery is joined, a strip of nearby muscle can be wrapped around...
...much left of the whale-oil market. But there were still fish. Most Provincetown fishermen began to fish off the dangerous ledges of George's Banks, "a terrifying piece of water, so treacherous that for many years no one fished there. . . . Let a blow come up and a vessel drag its anchor and come into collision with an other and there is no record of the crew of either one surviving...