THE CHINAŬMAIL, SATURDAY,}{ JULY '. 1059.'..
..AND THE ATLANTIC'S BIGGEST RESCUE OPERATION SINCE THE TITANIC SWINGS SWIFTLY INTO ACTION
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The
This posed a dilemma for the master of the Blockholm. urgency of the appeal indicated the Doria must be in imminent danger of sinking.
But then, the captain reasons- ed, why didn't they launch their Own lifeboats?, His first respon- albility was for the safety of his uwn passengers and he could
not send away his own lifeboats while the remotes possibility existed that the Stockholm might need them.
Yet he could not refuse life- boats to a sinking ship one mila away, He radioed the Doria: "Here badly damaged. The whole bow crushed. Number One hold filled with water. Have to stay in our present position. If you can lower your bonto, we can pick you up,"
Half filled
A minute later, at 12.21 at
tho Doris replied: "You have to row to us."
And a minuto later, the Stock- holm sent back: Lower your lifeboats. We can pick you up. This rather argumentailve CX- change, apparently between the radio omcers of the two ships, then was
referred to the two captains,
Thirteen minutes later, Cap- tain Calarnai rent an explana- on with a renewed, appeat, "We are listing too much. Im- possible to put boats over side. Please send lifeboats Immediate- 1y!"
But Nordenson still had his heavy responsibilities to his own passengers. He conferred with his officers who had been checking the state of his ship.
Then he told the Doria he would be sending lifeboats in 40 minutes.
THE CAPTAIN COMES ASHORE: -Piero Calamat at New York, with an oficer of
the United States warship in which he completed his trapie Atlantic crossing.
the passengers cast a reflection
ship not only upon their own but upon
peamen everywhere generations had ved who for and died upholding the tradi- tion of the bea that says "WO- men and children first"
The only maltigating explana- tion won that these men who forsook their ship in mistaken fear were for the most part not sailors in the maritime sense of the word, but rather wailers, dish-washers,
and kitchen workers ashore who happened
STILL A BLAZE OF LIGHTS, the Andrea Doria lista at more than 20 degrees. -Most of the passengers have been taken of her sloping decks. Tugs are on the way... but nothing can save her now.
Mothers see the children
dropped into blankets
waiter, expressing surprise that Krendell had not reached the
to go to sea to eke out a living the Doria in New York. The
Aboard, one of the early boats to reach the Stockholm The first survivors from the was a
New York insurance Andrea Dorla reached
Ile the broker George Krendell. Stockholm in the Doria's life and the two women with him boats some time between 12.30 thought they were among the aboard at about 12.30 am.
and I am, most probably at about 12.45 about 90 minutes after the Swedish ship's bow had stabbed into the side of the Italian liner.
very first to escape from the Andrea Dorla.
Stockholm earlier, blandly ex- plained
come
blanket · fell.
But as those in the water could not revive the little girl strength ebbed away and they stand, pressed upon him her swam and thrashed their way she was wrapped in to the lifeboat, li proved to be and carried to a sheltered part
aky and swift of the lifeboat. She died in hos a surprisingly way for the lifeboat crew to pltal two days later without re- lake aboard survivors,
goining consciousness.
that he had
By now the Stockholm's life- boats чете arriving at the The first Andrea Doria's side, was taken by the Stockholm's the dark sea. Pecond officer, Enestrom, around the stern of the mammoth list ing liner,
But when they reached the lounge the sighi zurprised them. They stored at a crowded room In wonderment, and realised it was crowded with crew from
There, the boat was tied up the ship they had just left,
pag- at a pair of heavy hemp moor- Looking around for other Q
sengers, they saw only a few ing lines hanging from the low they could recognise as fellow side of the ship's stern. travellers.
They came in three life- boats close upan one another. They were sighted by a look out on the bridge of the Stack- holm, who focused bright spotlight upon them.
The boats were gulded to- wards a side door which was only oft, above the sea. There the Swedlah welcoming party was considerably surprised to see that the large while life- boats of 140-person capacity wer cach less than half. filled.
The boats came swiftly alongside the open door of the Stockholm, and there followed e fercelous scramble in each boat as the survivors rushed to board the Swedish ship.
Waiters saved
"Send down a ladder," the Estimating by eye, it seem- sinewy Swedish oftheer shouted ed there were about 200 of to the ship above. A lace up the crew from the Doria who peared over the ralling of had arrived at the Stockholm deck.
before them.
They were attired for the most part in the white lackots of stewards, walters, and kit- chen helpers.
'Wait!'
the
“A ladder," Enestrom yelled, "lower a ladder."
The room seemed noisy and
He was still ceiling for a Alled with italians, who had Indder when the man above, la formed a long line leading to a moment, swung himself over the food on the buffc table.
the railing and expertly, hand- Some, Krendeli and his over-hand came swiftly down
were coming the rope to the Ufeboat. to the Swedish friends noted,
around for second helpings of would fod and cigarettes.
came
'A ladder!'
The man, wearing the white kitchen jacket of a steward or worker, acampered to a scat and without a word to anubne sat stolidly down, burying his face in his handa,
The bright orange Bfejackets pin-pointed the swimmers in In short order, the B4-person-capaelty itebosi was filled, and headed back to its mother ship.
When the Stockholm's life
8 made its second trip boat No. to the Andrea Dorin, the list of the stricken ship had become even more ominous.
rosary beads as a token of her appreciation. But just as firmly Trasbo, the assistant chietas she made the offer, Trasho,
Stockholm, in a devout Lutheran, declined. sleward of the lifebout No. 8, climbed up to hulp down One middle-aged woman who had frozen in terror midway on a rope.'
News of the lifeboat with the large blatiket must have spread on the stern decks of the
When he had eased her down Andrea Dorla. Some 20 to 25
wore caight on his shoulders. safely into the other children
double lifeboat the torrified woman, successfully in the blanket which had been stored who had not uttered a sound, in the lifeboat as an emergency broke into racking subs.
all..
The lifeboat almost capsized ut one point when a stout wo- mu, unable” to support her So busy were the men in the weight on a rope, crashed into
the boat. handling the lines as bout in
morn Throughout the early survivors came down, they failing hours of the rescue, women ed notice the harried Italian father who dropped his four continued to fall from the ropes,
many suffering broken, sprain your-old daughter from the
ed, or wrenched limbs, deck some 10ft. above.
did And many of those who fell into the
Fearing that if his only child not fall burned and ripped the sea she would skin from their hands as they the course TESCUC drown, Tulllo Di Sandro, a slid down stocky, almost bald Milanese, Ines. aimed for the lifeboat below and let his daughter fall from his arms.
Nol
Terrifying
Sho tell headlong, striking
only was it terrifying, It seemed
the railing edge of the lifeboat,
it was physically next to impog sible for the older passengers to erew that the last ones who re-
thr Officer the licuant
Second mained in
Abenius climb down a rope from constitute the crew who return-
whirled around at the thudding height of a two-storey building. sound behind him and saw at ed the lifeboat to the Doria.
But, short of jumping the But as the survivors
the bottom of his boat the inert distance, it was the only way aboard, the Inlilal surprise of
form of a small, thin, dark of the ship for the passengers the Swedish crew. changed t Later, a request for volun-
haired girl in a nightgown. Enestrom's boat was
on the open stern decks of the quickly chagrin tinged with dismay be leers among the Italian crow to
passengers, cause, with few exceptions, the help out in the kitchen was filled as crow, men
The officer glanced upwards Andrea Doria. One 68-year-old down in time to
stop others from Pennsylvania woman, Mra Julia. survivors were all men, the vast announced. But there were no and a few women came majority of them wearing the volunteers, and before long the two rope lines leading to dropping children over the side Greco, broke her back when she She lingered the the bout
until he had set up a large truck hilfeboat. officers made grey kapok fejackets of
in agony in a hospital for six perronnel and the white starch- rounds of those in the room and
It was not dealt to tell double blanket as a rescue net.
months before she became the ed Jackets of the steward de selected men who were ordered them apart. The crew ellmbed partment
In the dim light of the life-. 51st fatally of the disaster. to help serve food and
down hand-over-hand; the men buat, a snilor sprinkled cold sco Other passengers, both men. With a grasp of the arm and dishes.
passengers descended more
жете water upon the face of the un- and women,
petrifled a heave, they were pulled swiftly Sulli later, Krendell chanced slowly; and the women slid
conscious child. A woman in with fright while on the ropes aboard one after another, Tha to meet his own dining-room down in apparent agony, nilow-
the sea and, unable to go either up or. men of the Stockholm felt in walter of the Doria, who 06 Ing the rough
rope, to, silds the boat knelt by wardly hurt at this turn of copied
man's side to help. When they down, hung there unil their the offered tip which through their clenched hands, events. The abar.doning of Krendell had expected to give the Dorla by her crow before him the following morning in
His boat was about half filled when Euestrom glanced over-
crew Swedish
wash
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of this type
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.
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South is in four spades and West opens the king of clubs. South takes either the first or second club. It is Immaterial which one.
Now South must go after the trumps and here is one of those ́finesking' situations where he must not finesse. No matter how the spades break South has to loso a spade trick and if t
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head and saw a man, shouting CURIOUS CHARACTERS: NO. 7 -
in Italian, poised to drop a
small child over the side of the ship,
'No, no, no, wait," he yelled up to the man and waved his arms as if to push the_chud back.
"He's out of his mind.", the Swedish omcer exclaimed as ho hastily told four men to spread a blanket.
The child, dropped from a ~Roight--of-about-20-feals) emitted a long, shrill sETULM that sounded like a whistle of a bomb before he landed safely in the biankot,
Four other children followed this aerial route. Onc, a small
She flung her heavy aerns around the eck of the short, slight steward and smothered him with kisses and wet tears.
He fought to free himself, The woman, thanking him in Italian which he did not under
The night at this first stage of the rescue was filled with cries and sercams and choos,
"
"The strong..." Among the hundreds of pas sengers and crew on the open fantall of the ship the rule was not "Women and children tha first" but "Survival of flitent" and "The strongest to
Women were shoved aside in the dash for each of the first lifeboats reaching the ship.: Men
with children in their arms were brushed out at the way as the strongest stumbled, groped, and crawled about the deck.
Many, of the crow did try to but bring order to the scene, they wero hopelessly Out- numbered and ineffectual in tying to round up terrified and hysterical passengers. In vain the loudspeakers biared; Keep Stati calmi, stati calmi. calm, keep calm,
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The second lieboot arriving from the Stockholm was spotted plays the queen and there is a
from the alery, deck of the singleton king anywhere South Andrea Doria before it reached must lose two spado tricks.
the ship, and a drove of Therefore, South's correct anxiety-ridden passengers, hay play Is to lead a low apado.ing waited for two hours for West, plays his king and now | some "sight:0f-rescue, stampeded South will have Hitle dimculty to the starboard rolling and with his spado game, th leaped overboard, ste
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