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...Abeam with good humor, the Chicago Tribune's baronial Colonel Robert McCormick last week let his 3,000 employes in on a happy secret...
...reach the designated bearing was piloted by a flight sergeant from flattened Coventry and navigated by a sergeant from peaceful Saskatchewan. The pair saw the streamlined Panzer ship, closely screened by one destroyer to the fore and two on each flank. The destroyers on the flanks hung close abeam-so close that putting a torpedo home would not be easy...
...atmosphere tightened into a tense, spiraling scream, and even as I shriveled against the bones of my body the water directly abeam, less than 100 yards away, rose up in two or three crackling columns and subsided. There was another salvo, after which the ship shook and trembled, and I heard a tearing, rending noise. I crossed over to the port side, and the moment I stepped out on deck I saw the German raider. She was broadside on, so close I could count her bridge decks. . . . Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft...
From the lookout came a new alarm: Two more enemy sighted. Light cruiser. Heavy cruiser. Starboard abeam...
...Portland' itself is 610 feet long and 66 feet abeam. She draws 19 feet and is about s high as some of the Harvard towers, 136 feet. Since every attempt has been made to keep the fittings of the ship light, aluminum alley fittings replace steel, aluminum paint is used internally, and welding has been employed wherever possible instead of riveting...