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Word: beaverburn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Usage:

...Admiralty departed from this custom, announced the sinking in one day of two U-boats by one British destroyer. Emphasized-to encourage neutrals-was the fact that these U-boats had attacked a convoy off Ireland. Additional fact: they sank at least one of the convoyed ships (the Canadian Beaverburn). And another ship, the Chagres, was lost to a mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Ducks and Woodpeckers | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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