Word: freighter
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...after day survivors of torpedoed ships straggled into harbors along the Allies' far-flung ocean supply lines. Stories of vessels sunk, of seamen drifting for weeks on winter seas, had become a dreary and bitter routine. Into Boston last week came the crew of a Panama freighter. Missing were an engineer, a gunner and the chief cook. Five hundred monkeys, part of the cargo, had drowned when the Panamanian was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean...
Just above masthead height, the bomber headed for a fat freighter at the end of the moonbeam, rode up close with bomb doors open, flipped a pair of bombs. From that low altitude the bombs did not have time to point down. Instead they struck the water, still with more forward than downward momentum, skittered across the waves like a stone skipped by a small boy, struck the side of the freighter, settled in the water. The target belched two livid bursts of flame and a tall column of water licked at the Fortress' high tail as it thundered...
...destinations through seas where submarines hid. Two days out of every three, the Angry had been at sea. To bigger ships, to men in situations more readily recognizable as heroic, had gone the headlines and the medals. The Angry's first task was to get each supply-chocked freighter through to safety; its second, to sink U-boats...
...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...
...middle of them all the time." Airplanes dropped depth bombs, which made a lot of noise but did no damage. This fight was also within sight of a staring audience on the shore, which inspired the mild Klakring and his crew. They sank a tanker and an armed freighter...