Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companions when, northwest of Trondheim, she sighted a strange destroyer. "What ship is that?" she blinked in English. The answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon part of the German Fleet escorting transports north...
...coast gun crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling, the No. 1 Nazi Fifth Columnist...
...landscaped the college's trim, stately campus back in the 18505, introduced the sport, and up to 1925 Haverford regularly sent teams to compete on England's playing fields. By English standards, Haverford's cricket has never been of a very high order. When the British cruiser Exeter (conqueror of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee-TIME, Dec. 25) put into Philadelphia last spring, its tarry cricketers bowled over the Haverfords with ease. The Haverfords consoled themselves by trimming a motley team from Princeton...
...honorable in British naval annals is the name Ajax* and how far back into history march those annals, was called to mind last week when sailors of the present light cruiser Ajax, co-heroine of the Graf Spec fight, hung a new name under their ship's battle-honor plaque-THE PLATE. Above this sign, which refers to the River Plate (La Plata) between Uruguay and Argentina, appear legends signalizing exploits of five of the eight Ajax ships that have served Great Britain down the history of her long maritime mastery...
...August day Publisher Just got word in Canada that the Bon Air Country Club was open for business and going full blast. Frank Just's cruiser made the spray fly across Lake Michigan, speeding home to Waukegan. Back at his desk, he sent the News-Sun's star feature writer, a girl reporter named Gladys Priddy, to see what was going on at the Country Club...