Word: pigboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terse message went back to the task unit's flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from...
...Card, the 1919 destroyers Barry, Goff and the late Borie-last week went a Presidential Unit Citation for destroying "more submarines than any other team in Naval history." That beats a previous high scorer: the escort carrier "B" (TIME, July 26), another "baby flat-top," and her escorts. Their pigboat score: eleven probables, three certains...
...minutes, amateur lifesavers put out in rowboats to help the Navy patrols save 29 of the 48 sailors aboard. Not since the U-156 appeared off the coast of Cape Cod in World War I and smacked a few shells at Orleans had U.S. citizens seen a pigboat in action at such close range...
...from New York were slow in coming, and many a Venezuelan newspaper was running short of comic-strip mats. While the comic-strip heroes teetered on various brinks, Venezuelan editors heard with dismay that a ship with a supply of mats had been sent to the bottom by a pigboat...