Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nilcolayev, a center of shipbuilding, had scarcely an intact factory. A partly completed 35,000-ton battleship had been blown up. A cruiser, one-third armor-plated, lay toppled off its ways, which had been burned under it. Two unfinished submarines had also been destroyed...
Harvard's rugby team which has game undefeated for the last three years, meets a team of Visiting British naval officers from the cruiser Newcastle in an informal game on Soldiers Field at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. A number of the English ruggers are former English stars...
...Merchant Cruiser: Aurania...
...Central American telegraph cables. The Germans mined the mouths of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, laid other fields off Barnegat and Long Island. One of the mines smashed a hole in the battleship Minnesota, which limped into port, was laid up for the duration. Another mine sank the U.S. cruiser San Diego a few miles off Long Island...
...English Channel during the fierce German air assault on Plymouth and brought down a total of 27 Luftwaffe planes. On a mission in the Mediterranean, the "Newcastle" and six other English vessels attacked an Italian flotilla of 21 ships which fled after the British had sunk a cruiser and a destroyer, suffering only five casualties themselves...