During May 1945 Bracken took aboard passengers and cargo and proceeded to Pearl Harbor.

If the next flight is full, the airline would have to seek volunteers or bumping and give them vouchers, in order to squeeze aboard passengers whose flights had been canceled.

Gersen herded the eager children aboard the coast dispatch-ship, a broad-beamed vessel with cargo below and passengers above, which required a day and a night to make the five-hundred-mile run down the coast to Taube.

In October 1922 the Thomas took aboard passengers and crew of the Los Angeles Steamship Company liner SS City of Honolulu, which had caught fire about 600 miles off the coast of California, and landed them at San Pedro, California.

He is reunited with his wife when the Emden takes aboard passengers from the Diplomat in the Indian Ocean.

In the first weeks of Providence service, Company President Jim Fisk would dress in an elegant "Admiral's" uniform to personally welcome aboard passengers, a practice which was soon discontinued.