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...atmosphere tightened into a tense, spiraling scream, and even as I shriveled against the bones of my body the water directly abeam, less than 100 yards away, rose up in two or three crackling columns and subsided. There was another salvo, after which the ship shook and trembled, and I heard a tearing, rending noise. I crossed over to the port side, and the moment I stepped out on deck I saw the German raider. She was broadside on, so close I could count her bridge decks. . . . Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft...
...first definitive statement of U.S. foreign policy in the world today was not one but a three-gun salvo, directed not only toward Europe, but toward Latin America and Asia as well. At week's end, as near as spotters could judge, the score was one direct hit, one dud, one hit with a time fuse that had yet to explode...
...whole British Fleet was swinging into action. Admiral Cunningham ordered fire switched to the next in line. This was the Zara, sister to Fiume. Again the first salvo struck fire. The Pola, another sister of Fiume and Zara, was engaged. At one stage both Pola and Zara hung white sheets over their sides to indicate surrender. Barham blew the destroyers Vincenzo Gioberti (1,729 tons, 4.7-in. guns) and the Maestrale (1,449 tons, 4.7-in. guns) to bits as they tried to duck into smoke screens...
...devastating attacks British shipping had yet suffered. He was aboard a German surface raider (from its speed and gun-power, probably a pocket battleship), cruising the waters between Madeira and the Azores. Said he: "Tuesday we encountered an armed English merchantman. . . . This vessel was sunk by several well aimed salvos and soon only floating oranges marked the spot. . . . Soon after sunrise Wednesday, we saw three tiny shadows. Then we saw five, then six, then eight, and then more & more. We fired a first salvo of medium calibre shells. A fireball went up from a hit vessel and we immediately ceased...
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...