Word: deutschland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requisitioned by the Royal Navy and armed as a merchant cruiser, was assigned to the North Atlantic contraband patrol. When she was sunk Nov. 23 southeast of Iceland with the loss of 280 lives, the Admiralty announced her attackers were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied with all four of her starboard 6-inchers. Deutschland's, third salvo put out all the Britisher's lights, halted...
...gladly to other statements with which he barraged his admissions. Members heard that he had just returned from a trip to France to persuade the French Navy to send its two speedy battle-cruisers, Dunkerque and Strasbourg (designed and built precisely to catch and destroy pocket battleships), out after Deutschland and Admiral Scheer. Reports from South Atlantic waters soon evidenced new activity by both French and British navies. Satisfied that they had something to chase, they were out in force scouring the seas, putting in here & there when necessary for fuel and water. Ships reported by name were the British...
BERGEN, Norway--The American freighter City of Flint, shunted about the seas since its capture a month age today by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, will unload its cargo here and sail for the United States as soon as possible, Captain Joseph A. Gainard said today...
...conference was held at the U.S. consulate after Capt. Gainard had broadcast to the United States an account of his ship's 26-day odyssey after its capture on Oct. 9 by the German pocket battleship Deutschland as a contraband carrier
...British ships could catch Deutschland on a short run (31-33 knots against 26 knots) but not in a chase the length of the Atlantic, where the Germans' fuel endurance at economical speeds would be superior and the British would have to stop and tank up. Only two other Allied ships which could take on the German raiders are the French Dunkerque and Strasbourg (30 knots), based at Brest...