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Show Page 4 .1: ' SOUTH SALT LAKE NEVIS vsry ?. 1XA oilier whales drew oft... and dashed madly against the vessel, causing her to tremble from stem to stern. Four times the whales repeated their charge. At each collision the Seminole quiv-cjoas if about to go to the hiittom. Many . . . passengers woe hurled to the deck . . . furniture ... was broken from ils moorings," Protected by her iron plating, the 2.800-toSeminole" out-- , r.vr tlu- whales, and limped into Jacksonville on August 5 with great dents in the plates on mill side." Stranger still was the earlier Late of the Nantucket sailing whaler Essex, cruising the Pacino. Sighting whales at 8:00 A.M. on November 20. 1820. Captain Pollard ordered whaleboats lowered. Harpooning begun on what started as a normal bunt. Then from his post on deck, Mate Owen Chase suddenly leviathan first siw an then make for the and spout Essex" and ram her twice, staving in the how. In ten minutes the Essex sank and a horror filled epic of survival began for the crew. d n - Tho attack on the steamship Seminole" by a school of Riant whales in the summer of 1890 is unique in marine annals. Archives of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company the strange event. The Seminole", out of New I ot wli.'ll-Yf'lk, !';! t '1 S.jr.'!y il.v.k fi'.o Mmk nn i;'j.:ieil i.e of tl.e giants-ji.- 's iViJiii idlers soi.'.e veie Knsr--.'1- -. it iui f.:t lf'O enth Ik r how 'll.cn.ia.tcs lbiMic Mut.ils n.-r-- 1 - il ftt rreer A 1.4. v A ! s ! m I1'.? ri . . The crew of twenty crowded three frail open boats; they had few provisions and no charts. The nearest known land was more than 3,000 miles away. Endless days of despair, starvation. and suffering followed according to Atlantic Mutual. Storms separated the boats, one of them never to be seen again. Captain Pollard was rescued with a single shipmate on February 23. With five comrades. Mate Chase was picked up after a 3.700-milvoyage. The Essex tragedy, which was its inspiration, will long survive in Herman Melville's literary masterpiece, Moby e Dick. Transplant Odds A person receiving ar transplanted kidney from a relative donor has a 75 to 80 per cent chance of living one year and a 50 to 65 per cent chance of living two years or more. . Prize Packer Nicholas Appert, a French confectioner, discovered a method of preserving food by cooking it in sealed jars, and won a prize from his government in 1809. Lotsa Rice In 1967, United States rice farmers produced a national record crop of 8,964,800,000 pounds of rice. All Covered engineers plan to build cities with interconnected buildings so that residents in colder regions need never be exposed to winter's bite. Soviet Invest in 85-fo- U.S. SAVINGS BONDS, HEW FREEDOM SHARES Most Permanent About 80 per cent of all the shirts manufactured today are in permahently pressed fabrics. to remember fought for my country, o ..or forget, it. wont. When get out of uniform, want to go home -''pie I I ! I noreihnn nothing, ro want sympathy. Or charity. want a decent job. want to be able to get married dr..!' I I and support a family. don't exoect miracles. But wont settle for a broom. I i Ifs '(?u think theres nothing you can do to help, think surlier. For more information, for It ; .: Ti;rn;r ;; f c ril." Write: Urban America Inc., Box 6087, Washington, D.C. 20005 tA o dvrtioinQ contributed or the public food |