this story is from July 1922,.seems the Steamers were getting larger,this one had 400 passengers on board,......Imagine being stuck in the Rapids overnight,with the contant punding ,rushing,turbulent ,rapids rushing past the Ship........all night.What do you think the chances were that many passengers decided to 'get a good nights sleep' -
YIKES ..............................................................
STEAMER ON ROCKS; 400 KEPT ON BOARD; Canadian Excursionists Spend Night on Craft Which Had Just Shot Lachine Rapids July 31, 1922, Monday
MONTREAL, July 30.--Four hundred passengers were forced to spend the night on the excursion steamer Rapids Prince when she went on the rocks below Lachine Rapids tonight.
.again you can read the whole story at this link ,if you like:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9802E3D81239EF3ABC4950DFB1668389639EDE
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2 comments:
When the tanker EXXON VALDEZ ended up on a reef while the Captain had beenin his cabin drinking, he berated his first mate:
" I said I wanted a Tanqueray on the rocks, not A f*****g tanker on the rocks"
Thats funny.
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