Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week the British Admiralty announced the loss of one of the crack warships of World War II, the 5,270-ton light cruiser Penelope. She was sunk with another cruiser and two destroyers off Anzio...
Recently returned from active duty in a cruiser on the Mediterranean, Lieutenant Frank F. Smart, Jr., Chaplains Corps, USNR, is now Chaplain to Navy personnel at Harvard...
...South Pacific as deputy commander went the man Towers succeeded, 62-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, who has commanded destroyer and cruiser divisions during his tours of sea duty. To succeed Towers: Rear Admiral Charles A. ("Baldy") Pownall, who bossed a carrier force in the Gilberts invasion...
...morning a scout plane from the cruiser Omaha flushed another enemy cargo boat. Before the Omaha and escorting destroyer Jouett could overtake her, the quarry blew herself up. Next day the sea drama was repeated; still another blockade-runner went to the bottom. The U.S. ships rescued most of the crewmen, presently learned that the vessels they had sunk were the German freighters Rio Grande, Burgenland and Weserland. One unexpected trophy of the chase was several hundred tons of baled rubber, blown free of the ships and floating...
...Nine converted cruiser carriers (Independence class), which are flattops built on cruiser hulls, somewhat smaller than the Essex class but fast and formidable...