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Short-tempered, sweating boatmen struggled to push their sampans and junks close to the fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...
Last week a handful of surviving relatives gathered, as they have regularly since 1908, to commemorate the anniversary. Sitting on upended fish boxes in the chill, barnlike steamer shed on Boston's India Wharf, they listened as Historian Edward Rowe Snow recounted the oft-told tale of the Portland's sinking...
...days when the fog lies still and heavy over the harbors, when the damp beads the dock lines and the only sound is the creak of fenders against pilings, New England's fishermen can still strike up an argument over the loss of the steamer Portland. Her sinking, with the loss of all hands, is New England's most famous shipwreck, and the 1898 gale in which she went down is still known, from Nantucket to Bangor, as "the Portland gale...
Sounding Lead. For years, no one could find the sunken hull. Other wreckage was found miles away. Mooncussers, scrabbling among the jetsam, found a piece of cabin from the Pentagoet, another steamer lost without trace. Had the ships rammed each other? Or had the Portland hit the bar? Or had she clawed off shore only to break up under the terrible pounding...
...bogas are partly to blame for the river troubles. In 1937, they formed a union and loudly protested that their steamer captains did nothing "except eat chicken and pull the whistle cord." Within three years, they got shipowners to boost crew complements from 35 to 50, cut hours, raise wages, provide meals-and extras between meals...