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"Declaration alleges that on Dec. 8, 1902, the plaintiff entered into a contract with the defendant John J. Banigan, together with Leonard Imboden, Arthur P. Weeden and Edward M. Prindle, as copartners under the firm name of 'Prindle, Weeden & Co.'... the plaintiff held options on certain property in Nova Scotia which he agreed to sell to the defendant for the sum of $3,300,000. Plaintiff alleges that he has performed on all his part to be performed, and that all that the defenadant has done under the said contract has been to make the first payment of $10,000, and that in other respects the defendant has wholly failed to perform his part of the contract"--P. [1]-2.
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Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker who survived nineteen days in a lifeboat in heavy seas and scorching tropical sun—this information is incredibly useful even today. How to Abandon Ship was written during World War II to save the lives of seamen by instilling a commonsense, organized, no-panic clarity to getting off torpedoed ships safely and, perhaps more importantly, surviving later. It is a gem that can once again be used to save lives. Former schooner captain and author Twain Braden updates this solid and useful advice with a foreword addressing today’s technology. Braden used How to Abandon Ship to teach crewmembers fifty years after it was written ...
The Battle of the Atlantic was the dominating factor all through the war. Never for one moment could we forget that everything happening elsewhere, on land, at sea, or in the air, depended ultimately on its outcome. - Winston ChurchillFeatured in this new volume from Philip Kaplan are images of some of the most iconic and important merchant ships of the latter years of the Second World War, along with intriguing shots of the men who sailed and worked on them. The indomitable HMS Sackville, the only surviving corvette of the Second World War, is afforded particularly prominent coverage, alongside a host of lesser-known but equally formidable ships. The Corvettes (vessels that escorted convoys...