Word: demetrios
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...SAGA OF SAN DEMETRIO - F. Tennyson Jesse -Knopf...
...ship convoy was strung out in line that day in November, the San Demetrio in front, slicing through a calm sea. When the German raider opened up she was directly in line of fire, was struck at once, despite the gallant efforts of the Jervis Bay to take the full blow. His ship badly smashed, the skipper ordered his crew to the boats. As they dropped astern, the San Demetrio was struck again and began to blaze. The weather began to kick up. Two of the boats disappeared. All afternoon, through the night, and most of the next...
...second afternoon the lifeboat sighted the San Demetrio again in the distance, still afire, surrounded by floating oil. Easing alongside, they tried to clamber aboard. Flames shot house-high from the afterwell. Amidships she was glowing hot. But by noon next day they had managed to get aboard...
...morning of the seventh day they finally sighted a British warship. With the help of fleet officers and ratings, the tired crew covered the last two-day leg into the Clyde. Still in the San Demetrio's tanks were 10,000 tons of oil, valued, with the freight cargo, at ?60,000. The ship herself, almost new, was worth...
...went to 26-year-old Oswald Ross Preston, U. S. volunteer to the R. A. F., now on duty with the Eagle Squadron, because he played a "magnificent" part when the battle started. To his prize money the crew added the tattered red ensign of the San Demetrio, never hauled down till she reached the Clyde...