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rescue liner sounds the last salute
Down she goes-and her crew weep
A GIRL SAVED
Norma di Sandro, aged seven, fractured her skull when she was dropped into a Ilfeboat at the Andrea Doria's side. She
IN VAIN
was flown ashore in a hell- copter, but never regained consciousness. She was 50th victim of the disaster to die.
(Continued from Page 6) olher men in the boat kept a "Either you come down or respectful distance trom their
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we'll all come up."
"Go," said the coplain again, "I wait for the tags. If need be
swim out to Go,
Captain Magagatial climbed up the swaying rope indder to the deck and told Captain Columai that the men in the lifeboat all would return aboard unless the commander left,
Too small
The master of the Andrea Doris at last nodded his assent, Magagnini again went down the ladder so that the master could be the
commander.
Little was said. It was a time for each of them to think ever what had taken place the night before. There was plenty of time to think. The tugs could not be on the scene for hours.
From the decks of the Stock- holm, the graceful Swedish liner which had lost her bow in the collision with the Andrea Doria, the sky was scanned constantly
for
deep coma. Her Identity was still unknown.
Al Johansson, one of the Stockholm's injured scamca, was halsted from the ship next. He appeared to have recovered from the initial shock
of the collision
He had joked with his nurses on the ship about his condition. to die "Maybe I'm not going after all."
But
a half-hour before the helicopters arrived, he lapsed into a coma, Shortly after the helicopter landed on Nantucket Island, he died,
of sign
helicopters requested to ovacuate the ve critical casualties who had been brought up to the ship's fantall. One by one the other injured
At 730,
the Stockholm's members of two planes were
tho Air sighted, a large U.S. Air Force crew were lifted to
Lars Falk last man to leave his craft and a smaller Coast Guard Force helicopter: ship. This timo Captain helicopter, escorted
by a Coast with his broken neck and frac- Calamal followed him.
Guard Albatrose
seaplane from tured akull, Wilhelm Gustavson It was shortly after 5.30 . Nantucke!.
bereft of his left eye, and Arne The light of the new day was
The breaking fast.
Andrea Doria was abandoned.
The hollcopters swooped down for D look ut the deserted Andrea Doria and then came on towards the Stockholm. Both
The Ile de France, her majestle work of rescue com- plete, secured her last lifeboat, tried to lond on the Stock-
and at Ave minutes past six she
holm's faninil, bul this was
resumed her interrupted journey. Just too small,
But not before performing one insi duty,
She moved slowly in a wide
circle around the Andrea Doria,
and as the French ship look
her
The
He
leave the Tricolour of beetles then
joked
men in the two flying went to work on the delicate France was raised and dipped their speciality,
the same operation devised in the Second
three times, while ot
time Captain de Beaudean World War and perfected in the sounded three prolonged blasts Korean conuict, of lowering a stretcher basket to ground or on her steam whistle.
sen level while hovering in the
The mournful salute had a
tremendous ernollonal Impact ur above, upon the exhausted men in the three Andrea Dorla ileboats which bobbed in the choppy sea. Some inen wept openly.
The Coast Guard helicopter, throbbing in one spot some 2011, above the Stockholm deck, 10ok aboard Norma di Sandra, In lifeboat No. 11, Captain the child who had been dropped from the deck Calamal sat up forward with into, a lifeboat Captain Magognini. The 26 of the Doria. She was still in
CURIOUS CHARACTERS: No. 9
He Tricked An
Archbishop
THEODORE Hook hated pompous occasions.--As- Governor of Mauritius in the early 19th cen- tury, he invited the island's top people to his din- ners and served bizarre dishes, pretending they were the rarest delicacies.
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On one occasion, his
guests were fed suspecting curried eat, devilled monkey, flod makes, anti grilled Izarts.
In Hook's ive years of office the public finances of Mauritius bocame so chaotic that auditors, working day and night, never got within £12,000 of balancing the books.
EMBARRASSING.
NO
of
passion for collecting objects An ebarmPUS any objects. wooden replica of a High- landor LIA front tobacconist's
took Juts fancy that 'one foggy night Ho threw a large cloak over
balled sud
a drowsy cabraan. "My friend to, a Hille tipay," he explained us the end drove og,
Hook's most elaborate hous CHOTĚ wagonloads of coal Dack in England, Hook feathers, leo, cranberry persisted with his embarrassing-
Ches, the
and wedding-cakes,
Ways. In London's Strand one Mayer, the day, he walked up to
tarte Tord Chairman of the East India Company Archbishop of Canterbury Important and pompous Amm, prodded him with his walking and hundreds of notables to
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́simultaneously atm and naked gravely: Arrivo "Your pardon, sir, but may I small house in Berners Strook.
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writing 4,000 testers, sak, are you anybody in
Hook had arranged for, therin particular?'*
But his practical Jokes to be there under diferano
He had pretexts,
Smedberg with a brain con cussion and shattered right lex.
By 8.30 In the morning, 50 minutes after they had come, the two helicopters and the lumbering Albatros roared
sway.
The United States destroyer Allen came alongside Captain
Calamal's lifeboat at 8.30 am. The captain politely declined the invitation to go, aboard ker, He preferred, no said, to walt for the promised Coast Guard tugboats.
Captain Calamar's torturous vigil camo to an end Ove minutes before nine in the morning when he sighted a equal, black-hulled craft with white superstructure advancing slowly toward him from 11;
north,
The small boat turned out to be the Coast Guard eutter Hombeam, which had left Woode Hole, Massachusetts, seven hours before.
Impossible
The cutler, equipped with towing equipment, rounded the segging bow of the Andrea Doria and came alongside life- boat No. 11.
A spark of life Buttered in the haggard face of Piero Calamal. He was helped aboard the cutter, and climbed directly to the pilothouse of the small boat to take up the problem of towing with the young lieuten ant Roger F. Endman, who commanded the Hornbeam.
The other men in lifeboat No. 11 and from lifeboat No. 5 also climbed aboard and accepted steaming hot coffee from the Coast Guard crew.
Thirty-one men in the third lifeboat accepted the hospitality of the Allen, while walling for word of the outcome of the conference in the pilothouse of the cutter.
The culler Evergreen, main taining direct radio contact with the Boston Coast Guard, sent word to its headquarters at 9.20
am. Hornbeam
standing by
SS Andrea Doria. Picking up 45 crew members from lifeboats. including Master. Will advise possibilities towing vessel.
Васк came prompt orders from Boston: Hornbeam should Italian Ling not attempt tow,
Chapman contacting Merrilt and Scott and Morin, Towing
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and assistance from either or
Was
both believed forthcoming,
The order was hardly neces- sory. The Doria's fist about 50 degrees. Her promen ade deck was in the water and her bow was sogging heavily.
Towing was out of the ques- on Captain Calamai heard the words of the young Coast Guard Reuterant, and he could not dispute them.
looked out at the sce He glistening In the sunlight and saw his ship sinking.
Hovered
The sliding itself began ot 9.40 am, when the ship lurched over on, her side at somewhat less than a right angle, to the water.
Captain Calamai could look down the black interior of his the elliptical ship'a funnel as stack faced him, hovering just
JACOBY
above the water line. The ship might have gone at that moment, bui Instead she hovered there.
At 10 am. the sea lapped over the bow, covering it for an Instant and then washing away, only to surge up over the bow again.
Two minutes later, the chip's singlo. funnel bearing the red, white, and green colours of Italy dipped beneath the waves and the sea fowed in.
The Andrea Dorin wes then completely on her side atu 90-degree angle to the sea, the water flowing fast into the giant chip along her entire length.
In half
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BOATS AWAY!
Across the calmi dárk Gea, the lifebonis" ferry "the Andrea Dorin's passengers to the Ife de France. The ship' they ́have left is still a'blare of light, but she is listing at 90 degrees and nothing can save her.
and floated away with the long rull of debris that stretched upon the water.
The Andrea Doria plunged beneath the waves on her right side, bow Arat. Her stem rose higher in the air and then was gone, sending a small fountain spray of sea water, up towards the sky.
She disappeared from sight at 10.9 on the morning of July 26, of 1950, two miles south-east where the and the had collided exactly 11
Stockholm
hours carlier,
The final death throes of the Andrea Doria, which had been a home and a way of lite for the men who sailed her, were observed for the most part in a silence of cadness and awe by
One more minute and the her crew from the decks of the ship was cut in half along her Stockholm, the Hornbeam, and length, the starboard side of the Allen. the strip gone beneath the
WHYCS.
The three swimming pools in
a row began taking water, The
on BRIDGE disturbed.
A shark....
forty-six men approached the Allen
Summer sailors in the Naval Reserve, laing the deck railings, watched the approach of the Elfeboats, and presently nolleed a shark skimming tho water close behind the last lifeboat,
TheĮ shark seemed intent npan ons stout member of the crew. ·who was'sprawlod ib the stern of the boat, his arms outstretched On the boul'≈ konwales and, kla; body lesp- ing outside the boat,
It seemed as if the shark needed only to reach up to seize either of the 'armis.
The men on the Allen shouted and screamed at the Hallan, but he apparently Jobst in thought, did not hear them... When after several moments he did turn and look at the monster behind him, he leaped to the centre of the boat,
The figures
Last shly of all to leave was the Evergreen, Her final duty wes to mark the grave of a fine anchoring a bright ship by yellow 60-gallon drum on the spot: latitude 40-20-30 North. langitude 60-50-30 West.
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In terms of numbers, it was the grandest, most successful rescue operation in maritime history.
of the 1708 passengers and crew who had been on the Andrea Doria, 43 went down with the ship all of them led in the area of the coll- alon.
⚫ of the 1,863 taken off the Andrea Doria, Carl Watres, 4
man who had jolly business become popular by playing the of a piano and singing, died heart attack wälle relurning to New York.
the
Four of the Stockholm's crew were killed instantly in shattered bow, apart from the who died scamon Johansson, after being landed by helicopter. the Little Norma di Sandro, child who had been droppod Weboat, died without Some men wept; others just into eight lifeboats, on the port side, watched. In the silence aboard regaining consciousness:
and which had been made unusable the Allen the Tiation crew began six months later Mr Julla by the ship's list ofter the to empty their pockets of articles Greco, who broke her back in collision, hung rigidly and un- belonging to the Doris, and they leaving the Andrea Doria, died rendered them, keys, flashlights, the total of dead in the whole in hospital. Her death brought and similar flems, to the sea The ship hovered there, and which had taken the
mother disaster to 51. then the bow plunged under, ship. They paid their tribute leaving a white wake in its to the dllent sen. They wanted ORDON KEEL of Vancouver place while the round stern no memento of an unlucky ship..
writes It I had been thrust up and out of the water, looking at all the cards 1 could Indecently, uncovering the ship's It was after eleven in the
und have opened a diamond rudder and twin propellers. She morning when Captain Calamel surely beaten the hand but the hung there in a nut hesitation and his men boarded their life- THE FINAL BATTLE
boats and pulled away from the singleton of my partner's was an automatic lead.
Hornbeam. The sea was emply IN A COURTROOM as the two lifeboats containing
-(London Express Barvica).
sult
"My partner could have shifted to his singleten diamond but he wanted me to lead D spade and since he could read my seven of clubs as a single- ton he played a low club which 1 rusted.
"The spade lead seemed hope- tess to me. I had six of the suit so I led a low diurmond. South
uzl won in dummy
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Some of the port side life boats tore free from the np
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