Word: exmouth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freighter Exmouth, second U. S. relief ship (the first, the Cold Harbor, docked last fortnight at Marseille), sailed for France, carrying 12,000,000 lb. of evaporated and powdered milk, 150,000 articles of clothing for children, 500,000 units of insulin, 20,000 bottles of vitamins - as well as 12-ft. red crosses on both sides, and floodlights to illuminate them at night...
...Washington last week the American Red Cross announced that it had chartered a second "mercy ship," the S.S. Exmouth, to carry $1,250,000 worth of relief supplies to Unoccupied France. The first ship, the S.S. Cold Harbor, is expected at Marseille next week. When it arrives the people of Unoccupied France will stage a three-day celebration...
...British destroyer, the Exmouth, struck a torpedo or a mine (probably far out in the North Sea) and sank with her entire complement, about 188 men. Thus in the war's 21st week Great Britain lost the fifth of the 185 destroyers she had when the blockade of Germany began last September. During the week German mines and torpedoes sank below-average tonnage: 8,111 Allied, 35,178 neutral. Meanwhile, the sea war did not change in character, but an announcement from Germany suggested how it may change...