Word: -orama
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...believe you'll be saved?" Though for the most part her only answer was a look of astonishment, she did talk frequently with old men & women, tried in her way to ease the lot of some young British sailors, cabin boys from the torpedoed transport Orama who, still in their early 'teens, had spells of loneliness for home and mother. (Three of them tried to escape one night, got as far as the lake, were caught and put in solitary confinement for days...
...Germans claimed to have sunk the $20,000,000 British aircraft carrier Glorious in a naval engagement in the far reaches of the North Sea. In addition, the Germans say they sunk a British destroyer, the 21,000-ton troop transport Orama, the naval oil tanker Pioneer and a modern submarine chaser. In London, the British said they had been informed that there was "contact" between British and German vessels in northern waters but the Admiralty offered no further statement...