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This morning the cruiser Orion (7,215 tons, 6-in. armament) had broached into the expected path of the enemy fleet, reported by air reconnaissance to have divided into a northern squadron-two battleships covered by cruisers and destroyers -and a southern squadron-one battleship similarly covered. The Orion was to try to decoy the southern squadron into a night trap. Toward evening the main British force followed the flagship Warspite into the Ionian Sea between Sicily and Greece toward the hoped-for area of conflict. A few light Greek vessels put out to join them...
...destroyer Greyhound (1,335 tons, 4-7-in. guns) flicked on a searchlight. By great good luck the glare squarely silhouetted the third ship in the Italian line, the cruiser Fiume (10,000 tons, 8-inchers).- At this exceedingly close range, Warspite, whose heavy batteries had been brought to readiness, spoke up with a broadside of 15-inchers. The whole broadside found its mark. The Fiume burst into flames from foremast funnel to sternpost. The after turret flopped right into the sea. Warspite let her have another broadside. Fiume was now afire and hopelessly crippled...
...Eastern Mediterranean Fleet steamed proudly back to Alexandria-with no bad damage, and not a single man having lost so much as a hand-the British indulged in glorious postmortems. When the Italians said they were positive that they had sunk a British cruiser, British who had been in the battle suddenly remembered a curious thing: after they had quit the action, they had heard gunfire -could it be that the Italians had sunk one of their...
...lucky searchlight hit similarly caught the British armored cruiser Black Prince unawares at Jutland, the last big night engagement, and she blew up. * This week the R.A.F. announced that bomber pilots had found the Atlantic raiders Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest, had dropped bombs all around them...
...them when it needs them. The Merchant Marine needs ships for the deserted trade routes. They must be supplied. The British need ships to live. They must be supplied. Under the Lend-Lease Act, British ships may be repaired in U. S. ports. (This week a dam aged British cruiser was headed for Nor folk for repairs that will throw an added load on the yard.) They must be repaired...