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Into the estuary of the Rio de la Plata last week plowed the British light cruisers Ajax and Achilles. Ajax, steaming slowly past the still visible hulk of the scuttled Admiral Graf Spee, turned into Uruguay's port of Montevideo. Achilles went on up the estuary to Buenos Aires on the Argentine side. Each cruiser explained she came only to make a 48-hour courtesy call, give her crew shore leave, take on supplies and repair wear & tear sustained during many weeks at sea, not battle damage. Uruguay and Argentina each welcomed its visitor, though the Argentines left party...
...Less clear was the status of the Nazi freighter Arauca (see p. 8), which brought the war close home to Florida pleasure seekers last week by running inside the three-mile limit off Fort Lauderdale (20 miles north of Miami), just in time to escape capture by H.M.S. Orion (cruiser...
...pride of the Nazi merchant marine which did not escape or scuttle was the 13,615-ton liner Cap Norte. Last week she arrived in English waters from the South Atlantic under a British prize crew. Another, the Düsseldorf, captured off Chile by the British cruiser Despatch, last week prepared to transit the Panama Canal under a prize crew...
...Lieut. Commander Edward Oscar ("Brubs") Bickford, 29, of the British submarine Salmon, who let the Bremen pass when he allegedly had her lined up for torpedoing, was last week awarded the D.S.O. and jumped 800 numbers to full Commander, for sinking a U-boat, puncturing a Nazi cruiser (perhaps...
...last time a Canadian vanguard crossed the water. That was in October 1914, when 33,000 men had to be moved in 31 ships from Quebec, plus one from Newfoundland, one from Bermuda. Unknown to the Germans, the British Navy was then embarrassed by the absence of two battle cruisers in the South Atlantic, chasing Admiral Count Spee's squadron. Also unavailable were the battleship King George V, which was in dock for repairs, and the battleships Conqueror and Monarch, which had collided. Assigned to escort the 1914 Canadians were (besides cruisers and destroyers) the antique battleships Glory...