Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain was thus jeopardizing U. S. good will: 2) The State Department did not take a stronger stand. The U. S. had economic weapons to force Britain to show due respect, could send naval escorts to convoy merchant ships. What if a U. S. vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure...
...Brown called the Coast Guard again. He said he had heard fragments of a distress call from a steamer somewhere between Cross Rip Light and Nantucket. From Captain Brown, that was all the Coast Guard needed. Gay Head launched its surf boats. The destroyer Breckinridge steamed in from neutrality patrol, the cut ters General Greene, Algonquin, George W. Campbell plunged for the scene. Crews from Coskata and Maddaket stations joined Gay Head's in the search. Soon reporters from all over the North Atlantic coast were calling Captain Brown on the telephone. Captain Brown's story got better...
...voice (the sleepy headquarters men recognized it as Patrolman Philip G. Pierman Jr.'s) began coming in over the short wave. What made the listeners sit up and take notice was, mingling with it, the voice of a woman. Obviously Pierman was in his patrol car, but obviously he was investigating no housebreaker, collaring no stray dog. Headquarters listened with all their ears, unable, if they wanted, to crowd into...
...dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets in which a submarine, struggling to unmesh itself, makes its presence known ashore, where buttons are pushed to explode charges at the proper place along the barrier. Submarines encountering net types 1 and 2 are dispatched by depth charges from patrol ships or airplanes...
...widely they patrol the Seven Seas the British demonstrated last week when one of their cruisers (her name painted out) slid up to the Japanese liner Asama Maru, homeward bound from San Francisco, just as she raised land off Yokohama. A shot over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed...