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...Mauretania, launched in 1907, and the Olympic, launched in 1911, are still in transatlantic trade. But the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, built for comfort in an age of speed, took eight days from New York to London.* Comparatively exclusive, they carried only 400 one-class passengers in cabins amidships. Biggest cargo ships afloat, they rode rough seas smoothly. But they were slow, and because they were slow International Mercantile Marine sold them to the "knackers" last week for 4? on the dollar-$12,000,000 worth of steel & iron & wood for less than...
Once soon after the U.S. entered the War, Skipper Claret was taking the Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm...
...pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship." ...Fire control rooms exist on some of the very large liners but on the Morro Castle and like boats, fire apparatus is installed on the bridge.... It is possible to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to the inaccessible cargo and like spaces. It is not permitted by law, at the present time, to pipe any fire-extinguishing gas into passenger quarters.... The only method of fighting the fire in the superstructure and cabin is through the use of portable extinguishers and water at hoses...
...stores for a limitless voyage. Idle crowds milled about the blue Mediterranean shore. On board the vessels activity was intense. Men, who by their very dress, proved themselves to be no native mariners, were making ready for the departure of the craft. Another weighted donkey drew up, discharged his cargo, departed. The group about the shore increased as word about the town had spread that the fleet was in readiness to sail...
Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana. In her hold was a cargo of 750 tons of perishable fruit. She was manned by a crew of 240. And up her gangway, in little groups chattering about their Cuban purchases, trooped 318 passengers. Most of them were U. S. vacationists on a week's southern cruise and few of them were distinguished persons. The Morro Castle was warped into the roadstead, stood out of the harbor, bound for New York, three days away...