Word: deutschlandlied
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...German High Command announced that the pocket battleship Deutschland, sinker of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently." The occasion for giving out this information was the announcement that her name would be taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...
...loss of 100 submariners was the British Navy's heaviest in one engagement since Deutschland sank Rawalpindi (259 lives). The loss of three submarines (plus the 1,354-ton Oxley sunk by accident last autumn) left her with 65 of the 69 she had when war began. Added to France's 78, this leaves the Allies well ahead of Germany's pre-war total of 65 U-boats...
...Knowing that the British Battle Fleet was no longer based constantly at Scapa Flow, but apparently also using Belfast for greater safety; and knowing that since the late Rawalpindi's encounter (TIME, Dec. 4) capital ships have been out looking for the raider Deutschland, and also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between...
...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...