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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...
...lucky searchlight hit similarly caught the British armored cruiser Black Prince unawares at Jutland, the last big night engagement, and she blew up. * This week the R.A.F. announced that bomber pilots had found the Atlantic raiders Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest, had dropped bombs all around them...
...landlubber for only the first 14 of his 61 years, and he came out of World War I a Captain. Once a squash-courts pal of the Duke of Windsor, he is the possessor of a face which fancies somewhat "that little man with the mousetrap mouth," Jellicoe of Jutland, of a sympathetic, discreet presence somewhere between the bedside manner of a family doctor and the last-testament-drafting manner of a family lawyer, and of a high reputation for naval alertness...
...crucial naval battles in the history of Europe except two-the crushing of the Spanish Armada, and Jutland-have been fought on one piece of water. It is not even dignified with the name of ocean, not even included among the Seven Seas. Nevertheless the Romans called it the Sea in the Middle of the Land, as if there were no other lands, no other seas: the Mediterranean...
...tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown, the 31,000-ton battleship Malaya, a veteran of Jutland, the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the 9,100-ton cruiser Sheffield, and a covering guard of smaller vessels. The commander again was Sir James Somerville...