Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibility: the base was a ship at sea. Last week the world's largest submarine, France's Surcouf, claimed capture of a German merchantship 1,000 miles out in the Atlantic. The raider also may have had a rendezvous with the 13.615-ton passenger vessel Cap Norte, one of the fastest German ships in the South Atlantic service, unreported since she sailed from Pernambuco fortnight ago heavily loaded with fuel and accompanied by two German freighters carrying fuel and foodstuffs...
...week, and quickly denied, that Dominican Coast Guard Cutter No. 3 had been sunk off Samana Peninsula "in an accidental collision with a French cruiser." Private advices in Manhattan were that the cutter had been caught piping fuel into German submarines, and was sunk by gunfire from the French ship; that furthermore, stations had been set up on shore for submarine repairs...
...said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and vases broke...
...couple rushed out on deck, there were three muffled explosions. The ship, which had evidently struck a string of mines, began to nose down by the head...
There was no time to man boats. As the ship listed and Miss Duncan was swept against a cabin, all she could think about was the stories she had read of the suction of sinking ships...