Word: blockship
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...stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago Bay, Cuba, under the guns of Spain's bottled-up fleet...
...They were being strengthened, but the last "blockship," which was to have been sunk athwart a channel to complete the Flow's blockade, did not arrive until the day after Royal Oak was torpedoed...
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