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...Biblical renown, sister city of Tyre, the other great Phoenician seaport...
...senses that here is a true scholar, soaked with the disciplinary English tradition. He is modest about his life-history, protesting that the academic life is a series of books and lectures. Endowed with no financial advantages, Nock struggled his way through the Portsmouth, England, public schools, gained scholastic renown by studying a path through Trinity College, Cambridge, and cased his mature days travelling, researching, reading and writing. But here is a character whose personality is so diverting that the usual stories of war-experiences, travel tales or tight squeezes have to take a back seat. It is more interesting...
...port. Over 300 tons of shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil 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...
When he went back to Melbourne after the war, Murdoch sailed with the Prince of Wales on His Majesty's battle cruiser Renown. In 1920 he became editor of the Melbourne Herald, from then on loomed bigger and bigger in Australia's press...
...British said: one of their Swordfish punctured the biggest Italian battleship; another torpedo hit the Bolzano (heavy cruiser) and a Skua's bomb hit a Condottieri (light) cruiser; fire from the Renown and the British cruisers damaged another heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Total: six strikes, which reduced Italy's serviceable battleships to two, her cruisers to 16, as against only one British ship struck, the cruiser Berwick, which lost seven men killed, nine injured when hit by two shells, but was still ready for action...