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...boatfuls of British tars from H.M.S. Heliotrope, which lay near, proposed towing the burning vessel into deep water and sinking her. But the Sydney fire department arrived in time to flood the hold, prevent a further explosion...
...Blood Ship. The captain is a ruthless desperado who murders and tortures those unfortunate enough to have been shanghaied aboard his Seven Seagoing vessel. When the crew finally rises in mutiny their leader is discovered to be the man whose wife and infant daughter the gory captain had stolen years ago. The daughter has grown up to be the one lovely thing aboard, so there is a hero...
...Navigazione Generale Italiana ("N. G. Italian Line) is completing the world's largest motored vessel, the Augustus, 33,000 tons) to go in the Italy-South America service. This line's largest steamship, the Roma (also of 33,000 tons) plies between Genoa and Manhattan. The largest of all steamships is the Leviathan (59,975 tons...
...negligence when, on April 30, the Colorado went aground on Diamond Reef in New York Harbor (TIME, May 9, June 13, 20). Although the ship was piloted by a civilian Navy Yard pilot, one Clark Cottrell, Captain Karns and Lieutenant Commander Friedell were on the bridge when the vessel struck, and were therefore considered to be responsible for the accident...
Otto H. Kahn last week had delivered to him his new, triple-engined motorboat Okeha II, great, comfortable vessel, of the type that a score of Manhattan financiers have been buying to carry them swiftly from Long Island Sound summer homes to Manhattan docks. Mr. Kahn's boat cost him approximately $85,000; costs more than $100 daily to operate...