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17 missing.
But to balance their loss was the eleven-hour high-seas saga in which some 1,670 had been snatched back from death. Tribute belonged to the men who saved them.
But it belonged also in rich measure to Andrea Doria, badly stricken but slow to go down.
* Named in honor of the 16th century prince and admiral who commanded the Republic of Genoa's navy in sea battles against Francis I of France and the Barbary pirates (and who lived to be 94). On November 17, 1776, the American brig Andrea Doria, sailing into the harbor of Saint Eustatius, Dutch West Indies, received a nine-gun salute, the first salute ever rendered a U.S. naval vessel in a foreign port. * Stepdaughter Linda Morgan (daughter of Radio Commentator Edward P. Morgan), in the most unbelievable escape of the collision, was found semiconscious on crumpled bowplates of Stockholm, obviously had been scooped up by the bow in the crash, borne off as the Swedish ship pulled away.