Word: convoying
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After dark on the day of the Channel skirmish, the Germans sent another pack of speedsters against a British convoy in the North Sea. Again British destroyers blew two E-boats to flotsam, but this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent...
...week began, British submarines claimed to have sunk eleven Axis ships attempting to by-pass Malta with reinforcements for Libya. The Italian Navy claimed that a major sea battle was raging, with a Malta-bound convoy as the prize...
...Department colonel telephoned long distance from Washington, loudly demanded that one of the largest ships in the Pacific, which had arrived four hours earlier, be immediately discharged, reloaded, fueled and made ready by midnight of the following day to join a convoy. By working night & day longshoremen had the huge liner ready in eight days...
...citizens learned from Tokyo that a task force ranging 2,900 miles west from Pearl Harbor had raided a Japanese island in the Bonin group. Tokyo made the expected observation: only superficial damage was done. The fact stood, nevertheless, that the Navy, beyond its convoy work to Australia, was punching a long way from home. The Bonins are only 1,200 miles from Tokyo...
Officially under the O.C.D. but taking orders direct from the Army, the Patrol is a national organization that intends to use civilian pilots to inspect the country from the air. Members of the Club here will watch power lines, patrol the coast, and help convoy ships into Boston...