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Middletown professor survives shipboard explosion aboard Oriental Warrior
Cortland Mapes of Middletown, a professor emeritus at Orange County Community College, recounted surviving an explosion that wrecked the Liberian freighter Oriental Warrior off the Florida coast during a planned four month voyage to Asia. He and 19 passengers and 8 crewmen escaped in four lifeboats, were rescued near Jacksonville, and await reimbursements as he files a loss claim.
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