 Only hours before the advancing communists drove the U.N. forces from North Korea in December 1950, the vessel, built to accommodate 12 passengers, carried more than 14,000 Korean civilians from Hungnam to Pusan in the south.First mate D. S. Savastio, with nothing but first aid training, delivered five babies during the three-day passage to Pusan.Ten years later, the Maritime Administration honored the crew by awarding them a Gallant Ship Award.