Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blue Fleet had its feelers spread far out. The cruisers sped ahead, seeking everywhere to touch the enemy. Following this, came another widespread scouting line of destroyers, followed by the submarines and last by the battleships. Every nerve of the Blue Fleet was straining, straining for a single contact that would tell the tale of where the Black Fleet was coming onward...
...through the day and afternoon such was the situation; but, long before the enemy was sighted, the first part of the battle had taken place. The Black Fleet listened to the radio signals of the Blue ships- the code was taken down and, after a time, experts deciphered it. Straightway, the Black Fleet sent out false signals in the deciphered code, and misled numbers of the scattered Blues...
Sunset came, dusk came, darkness came. The moon rose over the waters of the Pacific, where the scattered cruisers and destroyers of the Blue Fleet plowed on, looking for the dark line of the approaching fleet. But the Black Fleet had eluded them. It was nine in the evening when the first contact was made. The cruisers had gone too far afield. So had the defending destroyers. The three fleet submarines of the Blue defenders sighted the approaching fleet, however, and made for their position in its path. Suddenly, the vanguard of destroyers of the Black Fleet gave the alarm...
Meanwhile, the scattered Blues learned also of the contact. The Blue destroyers hurried to position and a dog fight developed between the destroyers of the two fleets. The Blue cruisers, speeding in, came upon the Black Fleet from the rear. The battle raged...
...result will be known when the observers, umpires and commanders have consulted and decided. Two things were remarked at once, however: 1) That there were not enough scout cruisers to undertake efficiently the task of finding the enemy; 2) that the new fleet submarines were effective, far exceeding expectations...