Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Survivors who reached Canada last week told how the Nazis fell first on the slower of two westbound convoys. Night & day the waddling cargo ships and their escorts were under attack or threat of attack. According to the survivors, at least ten vessels were sunk. One of them was the Canadian destroyer St. Croix, formerly the U.S.S. McCook. The St. Croix was picking up the crews of other luckless vessels when a torpedo hit her. She went down in a small-size holocaust, taking all but one of her 147-man crew...
...other warships were reported sunk. So hot was the going that the two convoys united, then had some 18 escorts for 70 cargo ships. A German communiqué indicated that the subs had deliberately concentrated on escort ships rather than merchantmen...
...Boats. The LST, 327 ft. long and 5,500 tons, is really a medium-sized freighter whose bow gapes open like jaws to discharge cargo. Developed late in 1941, the vessel was a peculiarly tough problem in design, since it had to be capable of carrying and loading hundreds of tons of tanks, seaworthy enough to cross oceans under its own power, shallow-draft enough to put the tanks directly ashore. It carries a full operational crew and is usually commanded by a senior grade lieutenant, Navy or Coast Guard...
...which carries a crew of four and a medium tank. As an intermediate step between this small boat and the ocean-going LST, the Navy designed a 100-ft. LCT (Landing Craft, Tank), which can be carried to zones of operation on the deck of an LST or a cargo vessel...
...Mediterranean we had three cruisers left. . . ." The three cruisers, screened by a few destroyers, bluffed Italy's fleet of 19 cruisers and six battleships, numerous destroyers and submarines. Two of the cruisers, the Aurora and Penelope, with the destroyers Lance and Lively, intercepted one Axis convoy of ten cargo ships and two destroyers and sank all twelve. British submarines, raiding the overwater supply line to Rommel in North Africa, sank 1,335,000 tons of Axis shipping. Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between January and August 1942 British warships convoying merchantmen made six attempts...