Guetem- Is there a link to that? I grew up on Long Island and was well within the smell of salt water myself. I was painting a guys house when I was a kid and showed up late one day. The owner said not to worry about it. When he was a kid he was supposed to be signing on to a merchant ship. His mother didn't wake him as it was around 3 am. Later in the day he found out that the ship, the Morro Castle caught on fire and washed ashore in Asbury Park. He said that ever since he never got upset about lateness.
54light15Guetem- Is there a link to that?
I posted one yesterday but it seems to have been removed. If you google "Hustler Champion of Champions" (the latter being the name of the particular aircraft) you will see multiple versions immediately.
Wonder if he really was supposed to sail on her that voyage.
As I recall, she left Havana for somewhere in the Northeast and was at sea for days when disaster struck off New Jersey.
Perhaps he simplified it for dramatic effect, having missed the initial voyage to Havana.
Well, he did tell me about the Morro Castle 43 years ago. I may be hazy with the details, but why would he B.S. me? In another 3rd hand brush with nautical disaster, I had a girlfriend back then and her father said he was on the Queen Mary when it cut its escort ship in half. Felt a slight tremor, but didn't even slow down, he said.
Since ships have been introduced as a topic now and in the past and this forum does deal with preservation.......
https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/restoration/blog/current-work/
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54light15I may be hazy with the details, but why would he B.S. me?
Yeah, I agree.
That's why I tend to think that if you're remembering it correctly, he probably just simplified the story a bit. After all, the interesting bit is that he was supposed to be aboard but happily wasn't.
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