Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign affairs that he had no time for political campaigning, was now so occupied with campaigning that he could spare only a brief interlude for the troubles of Greece. His limousine spirited him from Union Station to the White House. Even the press hardly noticed when Secretary of State Hull and Under Secretary Welles went to him, conferred, departed...
...guesses (see p. 35). Five destroyers and a seaplane tender slipped out of Key West; three others, attended by eleven seaplanes, followed them. At the same time 1,200 Air Corps officers and men arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a squadron of naval patrol planes. Diplomatically, Secretary Hull called attention to the presence of this fleet near Martinique by announcing that these were merely routine Navy maneuvers...
Speaking to newsmen at the National Press Club in Washington "with no light heart," Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared: "Only once before in our national existence [in 1775] has as grave a danger from without threatened this nation as the danger which looms today on the international horizon...
...Action Stations." Fire gongs clanged. Out of the darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian shell plowed through an unarmored compartment forward on the Ajax...
...Ajax began to ship water through her forward plates, was forced to reduce speed. In the murk before dawn she suddenly came on an Italian squadron of one heavy cruiser and four destroyers. Opening up again at long range, she staggered one destroyer with a shot through the hull. As the crippled destroyer lost way, another slipped her a towline, started spewing out a smoke screen. By now the Ajax (which the Italians claimed to have sunk) had begun calling up support. But before the heavy cruiser York could arrive, the faster Italians vanished over the swells...