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...freighter City of Flint, which cleared New York City for Manchester on Oct. 3, and never arrived? One of her passengers, James G. McConnochie, popped up in Bergen, Norway, to explain that on Oct. 9, at about mid-Atlantic, City of Flint was overhauled by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, which put aboard her 38 survivors of the British freighter Stone-gate, torpedoed earlier by Deutschland. Finding that Flint carried oil in large quantities, the German boarding officers asked Deutschland's commander what to do. He kindly decided not to sink her, but to put aboard a prize crew...
...Royal" in the drawings might be the carrier Glorious: she is certainly not Ark Royal, which has a full flight deck. The escorting battleship, aside from being in an unlikely position (aft of the carrier instead of ahead, shielding her), resembles no known British ship (her two masts carry big fire-control tops at the same level...
...Philadelphia in Tripoli (1804), William Barker Cushing's torpedoing of the Albemarle in Plymouth, N. C. (1864), Commander M. E. Nasmith's penetration of the Dardanelles with the submarine E11 (1916), Commander Luigi Rizzo's sneak shot from a motorboat with a torpedo into the Austrian battleship Szent-Istvan at Trieste...
Week's score for the Allies: three submarines, 13,615 tons of German shipping. Week's score for Germany: one 29,150-ton battleship, 45,533 tons of Allied shipping. Germany's round...
...World War II is one more struggle between sea power and land power, as the War went into its seventh week the fighting continued almost entirely in the sphere where the Allies are proportionately strongest-on water. Within seven days three submarines, three freighters, three passenger ships and a battleship went to the bottom...