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...years as a deep-water sailor, amiable, stubborn Kurt Carlsen had been in his share of tight spots, but he bore small resemblance to the dramatic sea dog of fiction. He had, for instance, a penchant for providing flowers for the ship's passengers. He enjoyed toiling on deck with the crew. He kept a motorcycle on the ship, and used it for jaunts ashore-expeditions for which he often donned an electrically lighted bow tie. He was an unabashed radio ham and on dull nights at sea he liked to spell the ship's operator...
...this he was a fine seaman and a cool and capable officer. Some of his crew could remember how he had reacted four years ago when one of his "black gang" was found on the deck spouting blood from knife wounds in the throat and arms. There was no anesthetic on board, but the sweating Carlsen stitched the fainting victim's throat, sewed up two arteries, sprinkled the wounds with sulfa powder, and saved his life. Carlsen then grabbed the would-be murderer, got a confession, and went back to the bridge as if nothing had happened...
...pitching & rolling with sickening violence: Furniture slid and tumbled, tools leaped clattering from their hooks, dishes broke, and over the bedlam the wind yowled and screamed. At dawn two unbelievable waves (sailors swore they were 75 ft. high) fell on the Flying Enterprise. With a cannonlike bang, her shuddering deck and hull cracked open, just forward of her squat, white superstructure...
...from overhead gravity tanks poured down in slippery streams on the tilted deck plates. Steam began to fail. The whine of the turbines diminished. Despite the struggles of the exhausted engineers, the generator failed, and with it power for lights and the laboring pumps...
...party settled comfortably in the Queen's most luxurious suites on M deck. For the P.M., in Cabin No. 80 (once occupied by Molotov), were a special seven-foot bed, 24 extra-size ashtrays to catch cigar ashes, a supply of brandy, and a personal radiophone for "scrambler" calls from shore. The departure was held up for 24 hours while a crew repaired damage suffered on the Queen's easterly crossing-"the worst crossing," said her skipper, "that I have made in 37 years...