Word: brest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eugen, they had finally come out of their pit, had dashed through England's own Channel in February, dealing worse wounds to British pride than the damage they took themselves. Now the Gneisenau lay in Kiel. She seemed to have been hurt, as she had also seemed at Brest. But now she was in German home waters. So was the Scharnhorst...
...second U.S. destroyer named for the Commodore Jacob Jones who captured the British brig Frolic in the War of 1812. Her predecessor was the only U.S. destroyer lost to enemy action in World War I: in the winter of 1917 she was torpedoed 400 miles out of Brest by U-boat Commander Hans Rose, who hit her at 3,000 yards, the longest successful torpedo shot on record. The Navy, which does not believe in ill omens, will no doubt soon launch a sleek, new Jacob Jones III, and before the shakedown cruise is over the crew will call...
...Prinz Eugen, a fast and tough 10,000-ton cruiser, had slipped out of Brest with the battleships. She could be a scourge to Atlantic convoys. Last week First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander announced that a 10,000-ton German cruiser, apparently the Eugen, had taken a torpedo in the North Sea from a British submarine. The Eugen has multi-compartment torpedo protection: but, like the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, she was laid up for a while...
...this kind of warfare, submarines were the only craft that could hope to avoid the Caribbean's watchful air patrols. Where they were based, no one but the enemy yet knew. French bases were suspiciously near: Dakar, 3,150 miles; German-occupied Brest, 4,300 miles from the Caribbean. Small, unguarded islands off Central America might have been fitted out as refueling bases...
...sting drove deep. The British had raided these ships, as they lay for ten months in the harbor of Brest, no fewer than 110 times; they had begun to think of them as almost fixed targets. And it hurt badly to think back on the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, lost to a lesser force off Malaya...