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While London's lot created the biggest headlines, the Luftwaffe by night expanded and intensified its bombing pattern all over Great Britain. Liverpool and Birkenhead, the great shipping and shipbuilding centres of the west, received their first heavy bombings last week. So did Manchester, the Midlands textile centre. So did Derby, where Rolls-Royce engines are made for Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British...
...utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...
Born "dead" and resuscitated by brandy massage 35 years ago in a "cottagy" house in the seaport town of Birkenhead, was Lady Eleanor Smith. Her father was the Earl of Birkenhead, a tall, olive-skinned aristocrat who started life as plain F. E. Smith. Her paternal great-grandmother was a gypsy named Bathsheba. As between her title and her gypsy blood, Lady Eleanor much prefers to have inherited the gypsy blood. The reason will be readily seen in her autobiography, Life's a Circus: Hotblooded Bathsheba is the perfect alibi for Lady Eleanor's Bohemian adventures, particularly...
...damp afternoon last week, just nine days after the U. S. submarine Squalus settled to the ocean floor off New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals, the British submarine Thetis (rhymes with lettuce)* nosed down the Mersey from Birkenhead into Liverpool Bay. Like the Squalus she was a brand-new vessel, and this was to be a final diving test run before she was turned over to the Royal Navy. Aboard was an unusually large company-103 men. Besides her regular crew of 53 there were civilian technicians, civilian Admiralty officials, a local river pilot and two waiters brought...
Three hours after she had submerged, the Thetis was nowhere to be seen and her accompanying tug, which had lost contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface...