Word: lat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully as he could. Next he caught the ship's call signal: GFSB. This was the Empress of Australia, a pretty big prize. The uncertain staccato chatter continued: Torpedoed. . . . Now down by bow. All lifeboats over to port. . . . Deck awash. At 10:53 p.m.: Being shelled again. Lat. 15:30 N. Long...
...ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
...Being gunned by enemy ship of Graf Spee class in Lat. 52.45° N., Long...
...Being shelled in Lat. 52.50° N., Long. 32.15° W." A bit later the marine radio station in Portishead, England, which was relaying the convoy's messages, reported: "Convoy still being leisurely attacked by raider of Graf Spee class, Lat. 52.50° N., Long...
...disaster at Lat. 52° N., Long. 32° W. put a gloomy crown upon several weeks of increasingly grave inroads into British shipping. Obscured by the dramatic aerial Battle of Britain, in which the R. A. F. brilliantly held its own, the Axis counter-blockade against Britain began to press in late September, after the Nazis got submarine bases working along the long coast line they took from France in June. Startling was the official British admission last fortnight of 146,528 tons (plus 51,502 neutral tons) lost in the week ended Oct. 21. That disastrous week...