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...Navy (machinist's mate), hard-muscled Author O'Brien wrote as honestly about sailors in his first novel (He Swung and He Missed) as Steinbeck does about farm hands. This time he adds considerable data not advertised on the recruiting posters-of life below deck, in port, under good captains and bad-but goes on a spree with his plot in which curly-headed Kelly falls for a sweet girl, his pal Mac is court-martialed for theft, another pal is taken off to the asylum, Kelly's wife goes to prison for killing another...
Bare as a fresh-scrubbed deck was the story of First Mate Warren W. Rhoads, who wrote a solemn, copyrighted history of the trip for the New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc. Of their stay in Bergen: "Mrs. Harriman, our United States Minister to Norway, came aboard, a very fine lady. She thanked us all for the way we conducted ourselves . . . and said our State Department was grateful. ... I was badly in need of a haircut and so were the rest of the crew, so we asked for a barber." Ashore went First Mate Rhoads...
...with prison cells in her holds. Here the Spec's captives were-perhaps still are-verminously herded, scantily fed, given only one quart of water each per day for drinking and washing. Officers are humiliated by being forced to do latrine duty. During brief hours of exercise on deck, German guards cover the prisoners with machine guns. Since mid-December the British Navy has sought the grisly Altmark, wandering somewhere on the high seas or anchored obscurely...
...staggered to the side on watery legs, straddled the taffrail, and looked down. There was a boat in the water and several ropes leading down into it. These were the life liners and were fastened above to the boat deck. Halfway down one of these ropes was a woman in yellow, clinging to it like a monkey to a stick. A man with a red face was in the boat trying to help her in; he looked up; his mouth was open and his eyes looked like saucers...
...that three lifeboats had been smashed by the explosion. We learned, too, of the particularly tragic fate of one boatload. It was No. 5 boat, the one in which I should have been. Several women and children had been put in before the sea had come aboard the promenade deck, and afterwards a few more had managed to get in from the boat deck. The lifeboat itself was eventually freed from the ship and stood a good chance of safety. But as the Yorkshire sank she listed heavily to starboard and this lifeboat was capsized by the funnel...