Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making for Archangel (Murmansk has been bombed useless), the convoy was churning toward the Barents Sea. Off North Cape it ran into trouble. For several days all that was known of the encounter was the Berlin radio's growing claims, first that nine, later that 32 out of 38 ships had been sunk, with an escorting U.S. cruiser tossed in for good measure...
Then a Soviet submarine commander. Captain Nicolai Lunin, told of sighting the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz rounding North Cape, protected by three cruisers (possibly the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York gave up tennis for the duration, added his tennis shoes to the family's scrap-rubber contribution. Also surrendered: the gubernatorial mansion's front door mat, a tire, a length of hose, galoshes, Mrs. Lehman's rain cape...
...Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, hero of Cape Matapan—a baronet...
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...