Word: beaufort
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After leaving Vancouver, the St. Roch rounded Alaska, entered Beaufort Sea, touched Baillie Island, went on to Cambridge Bay. She turned back to winter in Walker Bay, on the midwest coast of giant, icebound Victoria Island, went on in the spring...
...sleek 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen with four destroyers around her, a hefty flight of Nazi fighters circling overhead. British reconnaissance pilots spotted the force, beep-beeped frantically on their radios for help. They got it quickly. From Britain a heavy air striking force -Beaufighters, Blenheims, Hudsons and Beaufort torpedo carriers-swept out across the North Sea. They found the Nazi force and piled in, while German fighters hacked at them...
...Beaufort, S.C., retired Major Charles Pinckney Elliott, 81, who served in the Spanish-American War, the Mexican fracas of 1916, and World War I, asked to be taken back into active service. Request gently refused...
...first Beaufort to 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...
...pilot dropped to 100 feet, skidded his Beaufort around the stern of one of the port-flanking destroyers, squared away, launched a tin fish, and sheered off to the left within 100 yards of the pocket battleship's bow. There was a tense pause. Then the rear gunner shouted: "There's a column of water!" The pilot banked to have a look, and all he could see was what seemed to him a beautiful cloud of dirty white smoke...