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...executive announcement, that if the Germans send submarines or bombers into the area between Halifax and Iceland the U.S. will fire on them. He was prepared at last to order U.S. warships to convoy from the U.S. to Iceland. British warships might cooperate in the convoys, but a U.S. flagship would accompany each group...
...mimeograph form the next day to the 55 officers and 645 men of the British cruiser Orion, informing them just what happened while they were at action stations and unable to see. The Orion is commanded by Captain Geoffrey Robert Bensly Back, who issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire of an Italian battleship in order that the British heavy forces...
Malaya's men were willing to talk. They had fought the Jutland veteran as Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville's flagship in the Mediterranean fleet's spectacular show at Genoa on Feb. 9. Malaya, a sister of Queen Elizabeth, had lately been on convoy duty in the Atlantic. A 20-ft. gash in her port side, they told a Herald Tribune reporter, was the mark of a German torpedo in a submarine attack, the night of March 20. With her convoy of 20 merchant vessels apparently on a safe getaway, repairs-reporters guessed#151;under the provisions...
...fleet, reported by air reconnaissance to have divided into a northern squadron-two battleships covered by cruisers and destroyers -and a southern squadron-one battleship similarly covered. The Orion was to try to decoy the southern squadron into a night trap. Toward evening the main British force followed the flagship Warspite into the Ionian Sea between Sicily and Greece toward the hoped-for area of conflict. A few light Greek vessels put out to join them...
...British destroyers-of which there must have been at least two divisions, eight craft-cut the sea up with torpedoes. Most of the destroyers carried eight torpedoes. The Havock, Captain Watkins, which gave a good account of herself at Narvik, signaled the flagship: "I am hanging onto the stern of the Pola. Shall I board her or blow her stern off with depth charges? Haven't any torpedoes left." But another destroyer got the Pola...