Word: yarmouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD BEAN South Yarmouth, Mass...
...British, who love nothing better than a good crime story, responded enthusiastically. Harry was spotted almost simultaneously in Cornwall, Glamorgan, Cumberland, Great Yarmouth and Leicester, then on the Isles of Sheppey and Wight. He was reported hiding out at Tilbury Fort, at a girls' school in Essex, and with a terrorist Republican band in Ireland...
...many ways, the fire that swept the 16-year-old Norwegian vessel resembled that aboard the Yarmouth Castle, the Panamanian-registered cruise ship on which 90 people-mostly passengers-died last November. In both cases the vessels were plying well-traveled Caribbean channels and carrying about 500 passengers and crewmen beneath idyllic, moonlit skies. As foreign ships, neither conformed fully to American safety standards. Each of the fires occurred in the early-morning hours, when only a few revelers lingered on deck...
...SHIPPING. Construction of a fleet of "high-speed, large-capacity ships" as prototypes for modernizing the Merchant Marine through standardization of ship construction. On the basis of a Coast Guard condemnation of safety conditions aboard the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle, which burned and sank off Florida with a loss of 90 lives last year, the President proposed stiff new safety measures for liners touching in U.S. ports...
...maritime unions, which have been trying for years to get Congress to apply tight laws to foreign cruise ships that cater to Americans, claimed that if the Yarmouth Castle had flown the U.S. flag, she would never have left dock in Miami. A former skipper of the ship, Andrea Amatruda, 43, was even more blunt. Anyone booking passage on the Yarmouth Castle, he declared, was taking a "calculated risk." Unconcerned, passengers in Miami last week continued to troop aboard other equally ancient cruise ships for Nassau...