In need of a medical check up, she and her son were transferred from the ship to the shore by the crew of the Penlee lifeboat, Solomon Browne.

BBC: Mother and son revisit Penlee RNLI

The official said U.S. or allied personnel wouldn't board the ship by force and would search the ship only with the permission of its crew.

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"The entire process is quite involved, given that there are more than 3, 100 passengers and nearly 1, 100 crew, and this is compounded by the ship only operating on emergency power, " he said.

CNN: Why has the cruise ship rescue taken five days?

Then, in 1960, a notebook was found containing another Essex narrative, parallel with Owen Chase's, written by Thomas Nickerson, cabin boy on the ship and a crew member of Chase's castaway boat.

ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea

If a ship is under attack or getting approached by a suspicious craft then the crew call one of two mobile phones lying on the desk.

BBC: Seeking Somali pirates, from the air

Thirty years after HMS Sheffield was hit by a missile in the Falklands conflict, a member of the ship's crew and a former local councillor recall the tragedy.

BBC: Sheffield & South Yorkshire

In 1985, one Greenpeace crew member died when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was blown up and sunk by French secret agents in Auckland harbor in New Zealand.

CNN: Thursday,

Though the crew might have been able to restore power to the vessel by firing up the generators in the ship's other engine room, Cuty said the ship's engineers made the right call in not doing so.

CNN: Cruise ship investigation under way