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This fact is not materially offset by the relative improvement of Britain's strength in capital ships. In the last war, Germany's battle fleet was so strong that Britain had to keep her battleships together at Scapa Flow in case of a sortie by the Germans. In this war, because Germany has few battleships and because the Italian Fleet has proved so impotent, Britain has been able to disperse her Fleet and use much of it in convoy duty. But battleships, with less speed than destroyers, are not a weapon to use against submarines...
...sound 'general quarters' and retreat below decks" to escape rocks and safes hurled down upon them from Lars Anderson or Cottage Farm Bridge. For this reason, the boat would be invaluable to the invaders of Britain because they would be able to pass unmolested under the bridge at Scapa Flow. To foil German agents desirous of the construction plans, the designers have built their revolutionary craft without plans according to Chinese custom and Bernie Warner...
When the first enemy bombers were shot down over Wilhelmshaven and Scapa Flow in 1939, both Germany and Great Britain buried the raiding fliers with full military honors. By last week, 17 months of brutal bombardment had, so far as civilians were concerned, twisted the lingering chivalric traditions of Air War I into the bitter hatreds...
...action, of surface and submarine raiders ranging far & wide through two world wars. It is of one great battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich der Grosse. It is of one afternoon in Scapa Flow when the entire German Navy went down, scuttled, to save it from surrender. It is of baton-toting grand Admiral Erich Raeder with a new Nazi Fleet, of pocket battleships and modern submarines, raiding and taking daring risks to cover German landings in Norway. The German naval tradition...
...deliberately. Afterwards the Germans, who ruthlessly attacked hospital ships at Dunkirk, had to content them selves with grumbling that the British should have marked the ship so that it would not be attacked. The British announced that the U-boat commander who struck the blow was Germany's Scapa Flow hero, Lieut. Captain Günther Prien...