Word: salvos
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...major remaining units of the French Fleet sailed from Toulon on a mysterious mission. Next day the Fleet was reported maneuvering in the Mediterranean. By steaming around in the Golfe du Lion the French Fleet could keep a good part of the British Mediterranean Fleet disengaged without firing a salvo. Mad at Britain over Oran and De Gaulle, and under pressure from Germany, the Vichy Government might thus passively help the Axis to take Gibraltar...
...soon as the enemy raider had the range, she sent her metal over in salvos. One of the first carried away most of the Jervis Bay's main bridge and part of Captain Fegan's right arm. Bawling for more speed from his engines, more fire from his guns, he clambered to the after bridge. Another salvo wrecked the Jervis Bay's steering gear. She steamed straight ahead...
...guns was puzzled by sudden silence above him. He went aloft to see what was the trouble. He found ". . . most of the men dead. . . . About 20 men were being attended to by the doctor. A shell came over and I guess it finished them." The third salvo had carried away another forward gun. Another powder monkey (in peacetime a London cabby) later recalled how after half an hour, "my gun was hit directly. . . . There was a terrible sound and the gun and its whole crew were blown completely off the ship...
...darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian shell plowed through an unarmored compartment forward on the Ajax. Next minute, a series of blasts roared from...
Suddenly one of the cruisers shuddered. About 200 yards astern of her a huge plume of foam scarred the blue of the Mediterranean and the blue of the southern sky. Other plumes from the same salvo walked out across the water. Every one a miss...