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...then voted down a resolution asking Civil Defense officials to take back the request for oaths. If a newspaper's employees didn't sign, it might not be able to publish if the city were attacked. At week's end, neither the pink-eyed Compass nor the Communist Worker had received forms from the Civilian Defense. "A clerical error," said Civil Defense...
...reason the Navy is interested is the baffling problem that airplane navigators encounter near the North Pole. The magnetic compass isn't much good because of the nearness of the shifting magnetic pole. In broad daylight the navigators can steer by the sun, at night by the stars. But during the long polar twilight they can see neither sun nor stars...
Soon a Polish army craft was on the fugitive's tail. By zigzagging through a cloud bank over the Baltic, the four managed to elude it, despite their slow speed (75 m.p.h.). They navigated by compass, without...
Monsarrat's story is "of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men." It begins late in 1939, when the corvette Compass Rose, "a fiddling bloody little gash-boat," is commissioned. A few halcyon runs, and then the U-boats come. On one ghastly trip to Gibraltar, a convoy of 21 merchantmen is reduced to seven-a slaughter with all too many counterparts in wartime reality...
Through '41 and '42, as the U-boats up their toll of Allied vessels, the Compass Rose rides dogged herd on its sheeplike formations, manages to bag one enemy sub. Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom. Only eleven of her officers and crew of 88, among them Captain Ericson and First Officer Lockhart, survive. These two, in the frigate Saltash, see the war against the U-boats shift from woefully inadequate defense to ruthlessly efficient pursuit...