Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distance from Belfast or Newcastle in Northern Ireland, where the R. N. and the R. A. F. may be at home, does not look so much greater out into the northern trade route than the distance from Lough Swilly, where R. N.'s nth Cruiser Squadron and the U. S. Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well...
...protection and underwater bulkheading. The German ships mount eight 15-inch guns to the new British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they are not, en masse, the British ships' equal, they will constitute a threat which may force the British to base their battlefleet, not at Belfast as at present, but again at Scapa Flow, where Nazi airplanes and submarines can snipe at them more handily...
...Knowing that the British Battle Fleet was no longer based constantly at Scapa Flow, but apparently also using Belfast for greater safety; and knowing that since the late Rawalpindi's encounter (TIME, Dec. 4) capital ships have been out looking for the raider Deutschland, and also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between...