Word: astern
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...Then they turned in succession right round on their tracks. We turned so as not to lose touch and worked round to a position astern of them, following them...
...cruiser's job deliberately to seek action with a battleship at night. Incidentally, the reason was demonstrated in our favor a little later when our own battle fleet bumped into two enemy 8-inch gun cruisers and promptly crippled both. This provided another display of fireworks astern. At this time the events of the night after this are not yet wholly clear, but it is clear that both these cruisers were finished off by our destroyers...
...through a calm sea. When the German raider opened up she was directly in line of fire, was struck at once, despite the gallant efforts of the Jervis Bay to take the full blow. His ship badly smashed, the skipper ordered his crew to the boats. As they dropped astern, the San Demetrio was struck again and began to blaze. The weather began to kick up. Two of the boats disappeared. All afternoon, through the night, and most of the next day the third lifeboat tossed on the Atlantic...
Their well beloved home towns have "vanished astern...
...began fortnight ago in Mexico's east-coast port of Tampico. Under cover of storm and night four Nazi freighters quietly slipped their moorings, headed out into the Gulf of Mexico. As the shore line dropped astern a signal flare cut the darkness ahead, then another. To the nervous Nazis that meant British warships. The Phrygia's captain, in a panic, scuttled his ship. The other three swung frantically about, stampeded back to port...