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Wolf Sighted. About 700 miles northeast of Montevideo, H. M. S. merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle (20,122-ton motorship, former star of the Capetown run ) sighted a suspicious vessel, apparently a merchantman, but long, lean and low. The Britisher signaled "Stop!"' The stranger, speeding ahead, replied with a salvo of shells which neatly bracketed the Carnarvon Castle...
...Another vessel of the northern patrol, the British submarine Spcarfisk, long overdue, was given up for lost last week. The submarine Sealion was luckier. Rammed by a German merchantman, who sheared off her periscopes and shook her up with depth charges, the Sealion wallowed for two days while making emergency repairs, got home safely...
Swarms of Stukas dived on every passing merchantman, sinking ten out of 21 vessels in a single convoy of small ships guarded only by trawlers due to a growing shortage of destroyers. Far to the north, above Ireland, German bombers attacked a convoy that had been sent around that way because the British had mined St. George's Channel between Eire and Wales. Messerschmitt fighters accompanying Nazi bombers to Britain started carrying one medium-sized bomb apiece. Everything that flew over Britain now had something to leave there. The Nazi High Command claimed that its submarines, motor torpedo boats...
...Survivors of the British merchantmen King John (5,228 tons) and Davisian (6,433 tons), picked up near the West Indies last week, revealed the roving presence of an Axis raider-an armed merchantman, flying the Swedish flag-which sank their ships. R. N. at once started a painstaking hunt...
Three torpedo blasts in one day last week sent down 30,998 tons of British shipping, which is more than the tonnage of the biggest U. S. merchantman afloat.† These shots were particularly happy ones for Germany, for the three ships sunk were the laden oil tankers British Triumph and Gretafield, both off Britain's northeast coast, and the refrigerator ship Sultan Star in the Bay of Biscay, fetching home 6,000 tons of Argentine beef. For Great Britain, however, these sinkings had grim recompense: the two U-boats responsible were soon sunk, arguing reckless desperation by Nazi...