Ship of Miracles: 14,000 Lives Saved on One Miraculous Voyage

It was a miracle worthy of the season. From his twelve-man merchant ship, the Meredith Victory, Captain Leonard La Rue spied a throng of Korean refugees on the docks of a city in flames. He didn`t hesitate to do what others would consider impossible. In December of 1950, La Rue and his skeleton crew rescued fourteen thousand Korean refugees from the hands of the rapidly-approaching Chinese army in the city of Hungnam. Through the night and next day, a seemingly endless succession of refugees bo…