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Missing Seamen Editor's Note Highlights Shirley Wessel's chase
Ellen New York AP profiles Shirley Wessel, 53, director of the Bureau of Missing Seamen. The widow tracks about 400 seamen annually using a bulletin network, calls, and agency checks. She recalls a Latvian sailor found after five years and a king of a South Sea atoll who cared little for being found.
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Seven Seas
EW York
New York
Shirley Wessel
Bureau of Missing Seamen
BMS
Sherlock Holmes
Melbourne
Australia
Latvia
Rochester
N. Y
America
Mrs. Wessel
Wessel Seasboads
Chicago
Seaman’s Church Institute
Bureau
Janet Lord Roper