Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dock did no more than scrape paint. After this she was examined by three U. S. Department of Commerce inspectors, who spent three days in their work and certified her "seaworthy and equipped according to law." During the inspection every lifeboat was tested; filled with men, lowered to the water and raised again...
...Pumps. Early Sunday morning the weather began to thicken, and at 9 o'clock the Vestris sprang a leak. Chief Engineer James A. Adams went below, found water pouring in through an ash-discharger valve, also into the engine room where a pipe had given way. Hardly had these been stopped when it was discovered the Vestris was shipping heavy seas through a coal port...
This last leak was on the port side, but water flowed to starboard because the ship was listing to that side. Sunday afternoon a fourth leak was found in the starboard coal bunkers. By 6 o'clock Sunday evening all the pumps were working, and still the water gained. Two more leaks had developed...
...chairs toppled over. Officers went about with assuring words. The passengers did not know that a number of cased automobiles had gone crashing through a partition in the hold, toward the starboard side, making matters worse.* They did not know that the stokers were working waist-deep in water, that cabin stewards were bailing there with buckets that might as well have been thimbles...
...sent first general alarm, as far as is known, a C Q radio signal to other ships meaning "everybody listen." An hour later he sent SOS giving his position. To New York office of Lamport & Holt Line he reported: "During the night developed 32-degree list. Starboard decks under water. Ship lying on beam-ends. Impossible to proceed anywhere. Sea moderately rough...