From: wayne steffens <wsteffen_at_skypoint.com> > This whole thing brings to mind a program I saw on the history channel a > while back. There was a freighter foundering somewhere in the North > Atlantic, back in the 30's or 40's I believe. The Captain refused to be > rescued when another ship arrived and took the rest of the crew back to > shore. Sounds a bit like the "Flying Enterprise", happened about the mid-'50s as far as I remember. She was probably a Liberty ship. Cargo was ore? and had shifted. Alex -- ---------------------------------------------------- Alex Ferguson a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz Electronics Workshop, Chem Dept, Univ of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Sep 27 1998 - 23:54:33 PDT
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