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Coast Guard's dramatic rescue saved ship - for Stalin's most notorious gulag

It was very early on the morning of May 4, 1934. On the bridge of the Norwegian cargo ship M.V. Childar, Captain Matthisen was noticeably - and uncharacteristically - nervous. True, anyone would have been a bit on edge. His ship, a modern 4,100-ton diesel-powered freighter, was passing just off the mouth of the Columbia River - a notoriously dangerous place. And there was a full gale buffeting...
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