Word: crew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifeboats with women and children, then men, continued. Pilot boats, revenue cutters and other craft stood by to assist. Beneath a white pall, in a quiet, gelid sea, the Fort Victoria listed further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria...
...Grimsby, England, the crew of the schooner Gladys swore that their black cat, frightened by a tempest, had turned white overnight...
...Renaissance paintings was being tossed in a heavy storm last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 23), the steamship Manuka, carrying a $125,000 traveling exhibition of modern British art to New Zealand, crashed in the fog on the rocks off South Island, near Australia, and broke up soon after the crew and passengers were removed. Among the shipwrecked paintings were two oils by Sir William Orpen, several water colors by Laura Knight, a collection of modern etchings by Frank Brangwyn and C. R. W. Nevinson...
Great Britain. Official barometers registered a low mark of 27.5 inches, a low pressure seldom equaled by the worst tropical typhoons. Off the Welsh coast the British destroyer Tormentor, dismantled, was being towed to a shipbreaking yard. The tow rope snapped, the Tormentor and her skeleton crew of four vanished into the storm...
...Borkum Reef, the 200-foot drydock that he was towing last week reared high on two gigantic waves, broke in two, sank. Brave Captain Verscheor, bruised and bleeding from being smashed against the rails of his bridge, stood by to rescue all nine of the foundered drydock's crew...