Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just to show it was not "mastered," one U-boat added to Germany's sea score last week by nailing the new British cruiser Belfast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, sending her back crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
LONDON--The British Admiralty tonight admitted that "a torpedo or a mine" damaged the new 10,000-ten cruiser Belfast near the entrance to the Firth of Forth Tuesday, the same night that a mine sank the destroyer-Gipsy...
...World War I, Admiral Jellicoe moved the Fleet from dangerous Scapa Flow to Belfast, Ireland. * Unofficial report is that the Admiralty had warning that some sort of raid was imminent, moved the Fleet out just in time. In his weekend oration (see p. 21), Mr. Churchill declared the Fleet "awaited their attack in the Firth of Forth during the last week...
That age-old gratuitous insult to our Holy Father is not unknown among bitter anti-Catholics like the Orangemen of Belfast or renegade Catholics of whom Hitler and Goebbels are two up-to-the-minute specimens...
...came forward to swear that Chief Officer Copeland of the Athenia told him that the ship carried "plenty" of guns for Canada's coast defenses and for fitting herself out as a raider on her return trip. He described an air of tension aboard after the ship cleared Belfast and Liverpool on Sept. 2: repeated, ominous lifeboat drills and inspections before & after war was declared by Britain on Sept. 3. He remarked the fact that the Athenia was still floating some 14 hours after being damaged, said he had heard British destroyers finally sank her as a dangerous derelict...