Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silent last week about what Germany described as one of the war's fiercest submarine attacks. Hunting in a pack, guided to a big convoy by air reconnaissance, the U-boats were said to have hit and sunk 16, perhaps 18 ships west of Ireland, including a merchant cruiser. With other losses from scattered attacks by bombers and U-boats, this furious assault, would shoot Britain's tonnage loss for the week far above 100,000 - if true...
Wolf Sighted. About 700 miles northeast of Montevideo, H. M. S. merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle (20,122-ton motorship, former star of the Capetown run ) sighted a suspicious vessel, apparently a merchantman, but long, lean and low. The Britisher signaled "Stop!"' The stranger, speeding ahead, replied with a salvo of shells which neatly bracketed the Carnarvon Castle...
...British said: one of their Swordfish punctured the biggest Italian battleship; another torpedo hit the Bolzano (heavy cruiser) and a Skua's bomb hit a Condottieri (light) cruiser; fire from the Renown and the British cruisers damaged another heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Total: six strikes, which reduced Italy's serviceable battleships to two, her cruisers to 16, as against only one British ship struck, the cruiser Berwick, which lost seven men killed, nine injured when hit by two shells, but was still ready for action...
...Italians said (and took correspondents to a naval base to prove) that only their heavy cruiser Fiume was hit (by one shell-which did not explode), and the destroyer Lanciere, which was badly hurt. Their 35,000-ton Vittorio Veneto outmaneuvered the torpedo planes, dodged their projectiles. Meantime their guns and planes smacked one British battleship, three cruisers and the Ark Royal. In the air they claimed 13 British planes shot down to two Italians (the British said two Italians, one British...
Today everybody knows about Diesel engines. They are everywhere-on streamlined trains, long-distance trucks, planes, ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; so was the big snow cruiser that Admiral Byrd shipped to Antarctica. But in the U. S. few know about the man whose name goes on the engines. Indeed, the word is often written lowercase. In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rudolf Diesel's biography gets just six lines...