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Word: battleship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--The British Admiralty announced today that three of Germany's six cruisers had been sunk or crippled and that these, together with the sinking of a German submarine and the "suicide" of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, brought to five the number of warships lost by the Germans since last Wednesday...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

While Comrade Arkhipov, in Leningrad, was inveighing to his fellow workers against the "bankrupt political cardplayers" ruling Finland, at Kiev factory workers declared they "love to fight," and aboard the Soviet battleship October Revolution sailors met and decided: "The time has come to end the criminal game of the Finns." An interesting aberration came from the Kirov plant workers: "The ruling clique of Finland has reached the limits of madness and has, at the orders of its imperialist masters, declared war on our Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rabbit Bites Bear | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...British tanker Africa Shell was sunk in the Mozambique Channel two miles off Portuguese East Africa by two bombs placed in her by an emaciated boarding party (wearing British lifebelts) from a German raider of some 10,000 tons, identified by Africa Shell's crew as the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Raiders | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...steamer requisitioned by the Royal Navy and armed as a merchant cruiser, was assigned to the North Atlantic contraband patrol. When she was sunk Nov. 23 southeast of Iceland with the loss of 280 lives, the Admiralty announced her attackers were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied with all four of her starboard 6-inchers. Deutschland's, third salvo put out all the Britisher's lights, halted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Raiders | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Huge electromagnets to draw submarines to the side of a battleship, where the submarine's crew would be electrocuted by an electric current sent through the hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ideas for War | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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