Word: lifeboat
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...next morning the Barbados foundered. Captain Hough and eight men (including Joseph Valverde, cousin of the owner) got to the ship's one lifeboat, floated in it off the Delaware Capes for 68 bitter-cold hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...