Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you will agree with me that the story has its dubious side. A more logical conclusion is that the "torpedoed" vessel in convoy met with an accident of a quite different nature. Possibly an internal explosion-sabotage, if you will-such as a boiler explosion; the power is sufficient. Or perhaps a collision with another ship: in the darkness somebody zigged when he should have zagged. In either case an alert British propagandist could make excellent capital of the mishap-with a rigid and sympathetic censorship holding up the news until the collective stories should hang together fairly well...
...Other ships have been torpedoed at night. 2) Modern submarines can fire torpedoes in high seas. 3) It would be normal to fire at least two torpedoes, since high seas lessen accuracy. 4) The City of Benares (11,801 tons) was a catch worth two torpedoes. 5) A boiler or other internal explosion would blow up through the decks, tend to produce a slow sinking (The City of Benares sank within half an hour). 6) That week (Sept. 15-22) Germany claimed the sinking of 201,862 tons of shipping and the British acknowledged a loss of 131,857 tons...
...worked for six months cleaning toilets in a Pittsburgh steel mill, eventually became chief chemist of American Linseed Co. at $15,000 a year (twice the salary of his boss). In 1912 he left to manage his own company. With but $75 in capital he planked a boiler directly on the Indiana-Illinois State line, could say he was manufacturing in the other State if anyone asked for his license. Now his company has two subsidiaries, turns out a variety of products: compounds to waterproof wooden wagon wheels, oil to keep posters from warping, oils for paints and duplicator inks...
...Chicago an 8 Ib. 5¼ oz. daughter (Caesarean) was born to famed infantile paralysis victim Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr. and Teresa Larkin Snite. Shortly before, Snite came out of the iron lung that has kept him alive for four years, was photographed outside his tank for the first time since his illness (see cut). A chest respirator, concealed under his coat and connected to bellows by a tube, kept him going...
...waters of that island. At 8:30, while crowds of celebrants strolled the harbor front, a torpedo clove the water beside the warship, exploded against a breakwater. A second torpedo missed the Helle and exploded before the village. A third found its mark, burst in the Helle's boiler room. The Helle sank an hour and 15 minutes later. Casualties: nine dead (one of heart failure); 22 wounded, some by stone fragments...