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...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...
...fall of Singapore opened the Indian Ocean to the Axis. The escape of three German ships from Brest meant that the German Fleet was something to reckon with. The wavering of Vichy reminded the world that France's Fleet is the balance of the world's seapower. The strength of Field Marshal Rommel in Africa, and Winston Churchill's admission in his speech that "the Mediterranean is closed," showed that the Italian Navy was not exhausted...
...little German Fleet-the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen, their destroyers and minesweepers-got proudly through the Channel, 700-odd miles from Brest to their home base in Germany...
...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...