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Died. Commander Oscar Cosulich, mighty builder of the Italian merchant marine; in the Gulf of Porto Rosa at Trieste, while trying to save his six-year-old son from drowning. After the father went down the son grasped the cutter, was rescued...
Last month two gentlemen in natty dinner clothes were seen to scuttle out of the Pulitzer Building in Park Row, Manhattan. An automobile whisked them to the Battery, where they plumped into a Coast Guard Patrol cutter and vanished down murky New York Harbor chasing the fleet S. S. Aquitania, eastbound. . . . Last week, tired, grimy, grinning, the same two men returned to the Pulitzer Building in brown canvas flying suits, crouching in automobiles outridden by staccato police motorcycles...
...Adroitly fitted with a device by which the entire liquor cargo can be ejected into the sea through an under water trap door in the stern, if a dry enforcement cutter is sighted...
Last week a lonely Coast Guard cutter, the Tampa, was hurrying north to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Behind her lay a winter season of snooping after rum-runners off the U. S. Before her stretched a season of snooping af-ter icebergs. On April 15 she, or her alternate iceberg scout, the Modoc, will heave to at latitude 41° 46' north, longitude 50° 14' west. Her crew, except for the ever present watch in crow's-nest and bridge, will fire three volleys, will moan "taps" in lament for the sinking of the Titanic...
Destroying icebergs is dangerous work. Usually a small boat puts off from the cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has been sighted 65 feet _ high, 1690 feet long, with an estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany...