Down Manhattan's East River one icy afternoon last week sailed S. S. Mohawk, 6,000-ton Clyde-Mallory liner, with 54 passengers bound for Cuba and Mexico. The Mohawk was making her first voyage under charter to New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co. That company, known as the Ward Line, had hired her because its own S. S. Havana had grounded on a coral reef off the Bahamas three weeks before.
Captained by a Clyde-Mallory skipper, staffed by a mixed Clyde-Mallory and Ward Line crewboth lines are subsidiaries of Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship...
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