1959-06-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JUNE 201 1959.

the story that re-lives the drama aboard two great ships on Collision Course

THE SPLENDOUR AND AGONY OF ITALY'S FINEST SHIP

LEFT: The luxbelous, flext-clas` lounge of the Andrea Doria_Everything was ordered to dis creet luxury. The Doria was a sbip dedicated so··

the cult of good lying. .........

#RIGHT : Dawn after the colllalon. The Andres Durin·lista :sterply; flor passengers and most of her crew haye zone. And the sea, walts to claim

the creation of Italy's finest craftsmen,"

The captain retreats from the horror

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"Yes, yes, give the signal," shouted Captain Calamal

the bridge wing,

from

The second officer switched off the automatio fog signal and Gounded two sharp blasts, the required signal for a left turn. Then he was struck with the thought that the ship was still plunging on at full speed.

In three strides he was at the engine, telegraph, ready to jack the handles back to stop the ahip. "Captain, the engines?" he cried.

Skidded along

"No, don't touch the engines," the captain yelled at him. "She turna foster.",

looming in the fog

Stockholm's

bow was

The "Now, she is beginning to turn," Visciono sald, be the giant built of twoʻlayers of extra

to sving crabwise heavy steel plating, and liner began

bow turning designed for in the water, the

use in waters. left first as the ship plunged on forward and then the bulk of where floating- ice might the ship finally skidding after found. the front end is the rudder took effect

then loo

late. Captain Calamai saw the dim

the hole to the ship.

the Stockholm

THE SHIP THAT

LOST HER BOW

This is what the collalen with the Andrèn - Dočia, an to the bow of the graceful. Blockholm.

It ha

turn to port? Why?”- ship under such conditions watching the did she lights of the other ship grow But all this was incoherent to supposed to turn, loft.

Why did she turn left? Why? dim a distance between the two the sleepy second officer.

bewilderment, hid." kept Vessels increased.

Carstens, Im those terrible asking that question, on the "Why didn't you call me?" moments, felt the weight of the bridge, of the Stockholm. But turning world fall upon him. What had no one had the time or inclina- the captain demanded,

he done? Everything had been routine and then the terrible 30 ton to answer him. seconds and the collision.

beneath the bridge jolt. is true meaning, never on. Carstens.. extreme stern of the crossed his mind.

"There was no reason in the He pounded on to the bridge world to call you" exclaimed

Had and collided at the wheelhouse Carstens. "I had good visi~

Be done something door with Carstens,

young bility

Ho officer wrong? He didn't know. the young third officer who had been

not think of the started to explain in a sputter could

anything only officer on the bridge, of words, but the captain had no that he had done contrary to:

for disjointed ex- what he had been taught at

school.

Steel scraped aleel and a flory be blast of sparks shot up skyward and cascaded back to the sea in a shower of orange and yellow flashes on the black background of the night.

Now she thrust this spear head into the Italian liner's side until all the force of her 14,000 horsepower was spent.

But it was

outline and then the bow of the other ship as it came out

With the Stockholm platoned of the night at the Doris,

in her, the Andrea Doria, twice The slender bow seemed aimed her size, pivoted sharply under directly at him as he stood the impact, dragging the Stock- transfixed on the bridge of

holm along as la

the giant pro- ΟΙ the Italion liner matter pellers ship, realising that ne what he did, ils ship could not churned the black sen violently

to white,

Captain Calamai had decided that it was too late to try to stop the Andres Doria. Her get away. turbine engines could not halt the 29,100-ton ship in fewer than three miles,

His only hope

in the WCB

She pivoted

At the last moment, instinct

Doria's speed. He had decided for self-prezervation prevailed. that he must outrace the other Capicin Calamat retreated from ship, turning left faster than

Death and destructions had beca wrought, in a, matter. of seconds. Then the two ships separated.

The Doria, her turbine engines she could swing to her right, the horror before him, backing still producing 34,000 horse If that failed, he thought, per- away towards the door of the power, broke free. of the dagger haps the two aliips might bruh wheelhouse. Then the Stockholm in her alde.

one another side by side as they turned in tangent ares and escape serious damage.

But the buge

Andrea Doria could not be turned like a car. Captain Calamai gripped the bridge railing, unconsciously trying to push his ship around in her turn. But the speeding ship, under the impetus of her forward motion, skidded along in the water perhaps a full half- mile before she open furn.

"Is the

began to

the turning? L

screamed

turning?" Gianulni

at the helmsman.

SPACEMAN -IN A BATH?

IN man's journeys to the

turn out to be the best-pos. sible protection against the fantastic accelerations of space flight, Dr Martin G. Webb, a U.S. Navy flight surgeon, told a conference on space medicine.

The future spaceman will be immersed in 95-degree water inside an aluminium tank looking like a cross be tween a deep-sea diver's outfit and a cented Egyptian mummy casÜ,

struck)

into

Like a dagger stabbed an eggshell, the bow of the the side Stockholm sliced into of the Andrea Doria.

►

And in the side of the Andrea Doria, where the Stockholm'a bow had been, was a wedge- shaped gash seven decks high and forty feet wide at the top.

Into thai hole poured the rea.

Slight jolt

the

"What happened?" demand. time then ed the captain. At worst be planations. thought the ship had brushed a submerged wreck.

Carstens sputtered out dis- jointed words... "Collision she came from port.

•

WOR

were

Yat there had been a collision. Other Swedish officers now streaming on to the bridgo. It seemed it was all because the Each

ordered by the other ship--whatever ship that captain to perform some specifle was diad turned left when emergency task and hürrled away to do il..

Without breaking his long Carstens wandered about the stride, the explain reached the bridge in a daze. He felt alone port wing of the bridge, with and left out. The caplain Carstens tagging at his heels, seemed to have no time for him. the hubbub on the Captain Nordenson, the taci in time to see the stern of the stin

other ship about one ship length bridge, his teeth began to turn master of the Stockholm, away. She appeared to be chatter, shivers ran up and was already on the way from speeding away, ahead of the down his back, and be found his cabin to the bridge when the Stockholm to the north.

himself unable to control bis crash came. He had felt the braking action of the engines "Who is she?" the captain vibrating body, and demanded, peering yut full astern being

hlm The attack came upon suddenly. Wandering about the encountered fog. thought the ship had suddenly dark night.

the

It was to deal with that con- Chaim her antingency that he hurried to The Stockholm, her entire forward force expended in bridge.

Into the

- don't know," said Carstens bridge, he tried to force his attention on his colleagues. almost with a wall,

No sooner had Enestrom, the reached the The fog which had engulfed second officer, the Andrea Doria earlier now bridge, not fully awake from a than Carstens the penetrallon of the Doris, He was

steep, halfway up the moved slowly in on the two deepi slid and bounced, against the stairway when the ships ships as the captain and third grabbed his arm and demanded: ride of the Hallan liner, from collided. He felt only a slight officer stood on the bridge of "Why did she turn 50?

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