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...first time a manned vessel landed on the stern, about one-third of the 882-foot luxury liner that went down on its maiden voyage...
...York harbor was spackled with whitecaps and the wakes of some 20,000 boats of every conceivable shape and size. Their wild variety mirrored the diversity of the immigrants who passed through Ellis Island: Dutch flat- bottomed boats, Chinese junks, plush French yachts, Norwegian barkentines. Draped over one small vessel was a hand-lettered banner: OK U.K. 1776 IS FORGIVEN. COME HOME COLONIALS. TEA AND CRUMPETS AWAIT...
After a series of warnings, an Argentine warship began to fire at a Taiwanese squid trawler, leaving the vessel in flames. The casualties: one Taiwanese killed, one missing and five injured...
...Buenos Aires government, claiming control over its coastal waters to a distance of 200 miles, has been trying to clear the region of as many as 300 foreign trawlers. Over the past month, the Argentines have chased or captured fishing boats from Spain, Japan, Poland and Taiwan. The Taiwanese vessel may have been trying to escape the warship by heading toward the 150-mile-deep British exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands. Taiwan was furious. Britain, which fought Argentina to retain the Falklands in 1982, denounced the latest action as "excessive and unjustified...
...graceful, two-masted vessel, just back from a 15-month European tour, had anchored briefly at the U.S. Virgin Island port of St. John, and was sailing north toward Baltimore on May 14 when the weather turned nasty. The twelve crew members shortened sail to handle the heavy winds. Suddenly, recalled First Mate John Flanagan, "a wall of wind and water" smashed into the Pride with devastating force. "In what seemed like slow motion the boat laid over to port," said Flanagan. There was no time to sound an alarm over the Pride's radio...