![]() ![]() In all his days of sailing the China Sea, he had never seen swirling snow in the middle of a violent Slowly, too slowly, she sluggishly righted herself and plunged on, steaming through the worst stormįreezing and unable to see through the blinding snowstorm, Second Mate Li Po, who stood watch, ducked back inside the wheelhouse and slammed the door. Struck from all directions, she rolled thirty degrees, her starboard rail along the promenade deck disappearing in a torrent of water. Her bow pitched and drove under waves that swept over her open decks and flowed aft and then forward when her stern rose, throwing her wildly spinning propellers free of the water. The maelstrom, the Princess Dou Wan had no place to hide. Winds soon reached a hundred miles an hour with waves that crested at thirty feet or more. The crazed waters were driven by northeast and northwest gales that simultaneously caused ferocious currents to smash against the ship from two sides. Over the ship, the men on board were unaware of the imminent disaster that was only minutes away. As the passenger liner Princess Dou Wan fought through waves that rose like mountains before spilling It was impossible to tell where water ended and sky began. Water and black clouds merged under the onslaught of a driving snowstorm. Whitecaps on the crests of towering waves were lashed into sheets of spray. The calm weather of the morning transformed from Dr. THE WAVES TURNED VICIOUS and worsened with every rush of wind. ![]()
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