Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pride of the Nazi merchant marine which did not escape or scuttle was the 13,615-ton liner Cap Norte. Last week she arrived in English waters from the South Atlantic under a British prize crew. Another, the Düsseldorf, captured off Chile by the British cruiser Despatch, last week prepared to transit the Panama Canal under a prize crew...
...Nazi epic came out of Berlin last week about the freighter Erlangen, which fled Australian waters towards Chile when war started. Short of fuel, she stopped at an uninhabited South Sea island for a month, while her crew hewed and loaded firewood, made sails out of hatch covers and tarpaulins. Alternately sailing (1,507 miles) and steaming (3,319 miles), she made Chile in five weeks (normal: two weeks), after burning most of her furniture and cabin floors...