Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rayville having been sunk so close to shore finally materializes the fears that some of us treated as so much buckshaw before entering the outer harbor at Hong Kong this last summer. Among the usual untraceable rumors that spread around the ship, was one about mine fields that were supposed to have been all over that particular area of the China...
...Navy. Mountains of paper work vexed and baffled him. So, occasionally, did admirals who were his nominal subordinates. They buffeted him from stem to stern when he proposed to tighten the Navy's loose organization, bucked like destroyers in a gale when he partially reorganized the shore bureaus to handle the enormous construction job now under way. And they practically keelhauled him (unofficially) when he came back from inspecting the Pacific Fleet last spring with word that "aircraft have a temporary advantage over ships...
Last week, radio and cable on the Fiji Islands, 2,500 miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...
...latter had air scouts out, too. They knew that the swift, massive Renown was racing up from the British convoy. They turned off toward Sardinia, and the British resumed their pursuit of the Italian cruisers. When the Renown came up, the Italian battleships were well away toward shore. In all the smoke and scurry, the Renown could not see the effect of her shells at extreme range...
...battering of Germany's rail connections to the western front has obliged the Nazis to service some of their bases on the Channel and Atlantic coasts partly by supply ships creeping inside minefields around the continental shore line. Last week at least two such ships were spotted by British reconnaissance. A British torpedo plane took care of one off the Dutch coast, a squadron of motor-torpedo boats the other, which was identified as the 5,943-ton Santos. Into the teeth of fire from an escorting German warship the "suicide" launches darted to make their kill...