Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurricane batters the Cyclone's, superstructure to pieces. When they reach the Greek steamer after twelve hours, its hysterical crew refuse to come on deck to take the towing hawser. Finally coaxed out the next morning they bungle the job and the hawser, worth 50,000 francs, breaks within an hour. When a second hawser breaks, the Greek crew beg frantically to be taken off. Captain Renaud refuses, and the Greek ship sends out wild messages that the Cyclone has sunk. The Cyclone's, smashed radio transmitter prevents cursing Captain Renaud denying the charge, and while the furious...
Commanding the Cyclone is tall, grey-eyed, 46-year-old Captain Renaud, famed in every port of the world for spectacular rescues carried out with a specially adapted Russian icebreaker and a hand-picked crew of 30 who stay on 24-hour duty, functioning with the same perfection as the Cyclone's, expensive mechanical equipment. Minor characters are stony, hare-lipped First Mate Tanguy, who broods over his wife's infidelities on shore, damns the invention of radio because it enables her to time his return; and Boatswain Kerlo, a man with a mysterious aristocratic past, who drinks...
Discernible also are the cook, two radio operators and the chief engineer, the rest of the crew remaining in the background as heroic but anonymous supernumeraries...
...that time a member of the crew of the U. S. S. Albatross (ocean soundings, volcanic research and the history of the fish of various kinds...
...transport flying, since they are relatively slow and can carry only small loads. One morning last week, when Juan de la Cierva wished to go to the Continent, he stepped aboard a twin-motored Douglas DC2 monoplane belonging to Royal Dutch Airlines at Croydon. Aboard with him went a crew of four and twelve other passengers, including Admiral Salomon Arvid Lindman, onetime Prime Minister of Sweden...