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...schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; . . . Thus, nearly 100 years ago, did Longfellow begin his famed ballad of the wreck of the Hesperus on the reef of Norman's Woe. Last week, another schooner Hesperus, hailing from Gloucester, a few miles north of Norman's Woe, was sailing the sea off Cape Cod when...
...less of a sinecure was the rescue of the stranded ship. Though moving at only 9 m.p.h. when she struck, the 650-ft. liner had shoved her entire length onto the coral reef, was punctured in several places, seemed at first glance to have reached the end of her 27-year career. Still on board with a skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days...
...French Reef. Scheduled to sail from New Orleans to New York at 11 a.m., the 8,000-ton Southern Pacific-Morgan Liner Dixie waited until 6 p. m. for 25 vacationists whose train had been held up by a Texas washout. More than a quarter of a day behind schedule, the Dixie dropped down through the Mississippi Delta, swung out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard her was a crew of 123 and 233 passengers, including three popularity contest winners from Pennsylvania, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, some honeymooners and an assortment of trippers and travelers taking advantage of the cheap...
...perilous Florida Straits. Night came down and the storm increased, sending waves clean over her bridge, blinding her officers with solid sheets of rain. At 8:12 p. m. the Dixie's bottom grated over something that felt like a giant washboard, stuck fast on a hidden reef...
...night. But the order did not come. Captain Sundstrom knew that to put out boats was certain death. The passengers began singing The Man on the Flying Trapeze. As soon as it appeared that the Dixie's plates were tougher than the pounding they got from the coral reef, everyone was shooed back into the public rooms. There they stayed for the next 46 hours, keeping up their spirits with various occupations, while Captain Sundstrom kept the pumps going in his leaking hull and prayed for the wind to give out before his ship...