Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farther west, where the bewildered Vichyfrench still clung to the ghostly pretense of control, the ground rumbled too. Two British planes swept over Algeria, were shot down by French craft. (Two more fell before French attack down the west African coast below Dakar.) Through that defeat-darkened land German technicians, military men and tourists prowled...
Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
...Hottest thing on seven seas" is the Arctic supply route to Russia, said a British seaman named Edward S. Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying supplies to Murmansk. "Ships sailing to or from Murmansk," he said, "go into action almost the first day out against surface craft and submarines." Confirming such accounts of Arctic peril, the Admiralty announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some...
...Small Craft to Be Used...
...place of the larger units of the Fleet which have been used in the past, the training this year will be done in daily tacks aboard shore-based small craft, and members of the Harvard Unit will be quartered ashore in Boston Harbor...