Sacred Scripture

The following reprinted from Eagle Blue Vol. 1 Number 2 February 3, 2006. and this being Sunday........
S.S. AMERICAN GUNNER - 1959 - mid-winter on a westbound Transatlantic voyage for direct arrival to Philadelphia. Direct arrivals for us from Europe were rare. Three days before scheduled arrival Big Mike our Operations Manager requested from the captain his estimated arrival time to facilitate the required planning with U.S. Customs, immigration, pilots, etc.  The captain radioed back the following message: SCRIPTURES  - JONAH 1:4-6.......Mike, realizing this was out of his league, put in a call to the Port Chaplain who turned to the Old Testament for the following reading - "but the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea....so that the ship was like to be broken." Mike didn't bother the captain for the next 72 hours.
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