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carnage. Crates floated in the water all round us. Empty
life rafts, wooden ladders, life belts, spars, ropes, bunting,
cardboard boxes. The sunken ship must have been carry
ing a cargo of flour, because we were cutting through a .
sea of fermenting flour which popped and bubbled almost
as high as the deck. Whatever happened it had happened
only a few hours earlier and so quickly the ship had not
even been able to send out a distress signal.
The one mute message offered by this terrible scene
of disaster, was run for it! Get out as fast as you can,
strain the old engines to the limit, and pray for nightfall.
Captain Chrysochos' aplomb had momentarily deserted
him. His face was gray under his olive skin. I had known
him to be a brave man. Now I was to know him as a great
humanitarian. "Half speed ahead," he said.
WE were not going to run away. We were going to stay
out and look for survivors. A ship bell clanged,
and we heard the engine slow. There was no noise in the
ship, none of the bedlam of excitable argument that made
service in the Greek Merchant Marine so stimulating.
Every man not on duty below was at the rail, or up a
ladder, looking outward. Looking for survivors in that sea
of floating rubble was like searching for a pea in a field.
We churned through flour and plywood, while, somewhere
not far away underwater, a U-boat darted, gorged with
success but still eager for more.
All at once I knew what I was lighting for and that
the question I had asked myself for years was answered.
It was not the captain's courage that inspired me. Courage
comes easily in wartime, and without a wider morality it
mtrans nothing. No nation fought with more fanatical
Half speed ahead," Captain Chrysochos
said. We were not going to run away.
courage than Nazi Germany. No, the captain was demon
strating the supreme virtue of a humanitarianism that
Hitler could not match but only fear.
Men motivated by a spirit of selflessness and concern
for humanity had a moral superiority which Nazism and
Communism had to crush by terrorism or succumb to it
I have benefited in my later career from many selfless deeds
of kindness. I can't recall myself performing any signifi
cant deeds of the same kind, but ever since that day in
mid-Atlantic at mid-point of the war, I have been aware
of the vital need for it in our morality.
Not until it was dark, after several hours of searching,
did the captain give up. There were no survivors. But he
had proved that he was, prepared to die in defense of his
respect for humanity.
He ordered full speed ahead, and a week later we
steamed into Loch Ewe. The flour that caked the Aghia
Marina's hull made us look more ramshackle than ever.
Scores of ships rode at anchor, carrying the flags of the
free world. We could see sailors stampeding to the rails
of their ships to witness this grotesque apparition. They
pointed out our livestock to their mates and quivered with
mirth. We did not care.
Our ship had its own nobility now, and we shared it.
In the years that have passed, the lesson in selflessness
that Captain Giorgios Chrysochos showed us has not
dimmed. Even in the face of disaster, he would not aban
don his fellow men.
I am happy to report that Chrysochos survived the war
and prospered. The Aghia Marina, too, was still afloat
when the war ended, and in overdue course steamed to
some knacker's yard for brave old ships.
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