Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Los Angeles' sunlit harbor one day last week wallowed the 156-foot three-masted schooner Metha Nelson, her once-trim hull battered, her rigging tattered, her Diesel auxiliary wheezing, her worn-out crew grumbling. Waiting on shore among reporters who thought they might get a story was a deputy U. S. marshal with a handful of subpoenas. The reporters got a whopper from Captain Robert B. Hoffmann, who had plenty to say: "A Hollywood treasure hunt-fooey! The whole thing was nuts from the very beginning." He soon was testifying before a grand jury and telling his story...
Instead of prudently turning back the Loyalist destroyer rounded Europa Point, Gibraltar's southernmost tip. As she did so a Rebel cruiser hove into sight from the African shore. Six more Rebel warships, cruisers, destroyers, minelayers soon joined the chase. Guns from the 10,000-ton cruiser Carnarias, pride of the Rebel fleet, boomed. Batteries from Ceuta. in Rebel-held Spanish Morocco, some 15 miles across the Straits, bellowed. The destroyer, outclassed, nonetheless elected to fight. A shell struck the Jose Luis Diez's forecastle, killed four men. One of her own guns exploded and killed more...
...Rebel destroyer Jupiter nosed in between the Jose Luis Diez and the Gibraltar shore. Convinced now that the blockade could not be run. Commander Juan Castro changed his course, ordered the ship back to British waters...
Desperate, the José Luis Diez deliberately rammed the Jupiter and disabled her. The Loyalist destroyer then floundered toward the shore and grounded 100 yards from Catalan Bay. The Vanoc and Basque moved between the Jose Luis Diez and her Rebel attackers, played searchlights on the scene and began rescues in boats. The Loyalists' battle toll was eight dead, eleven wounded. The dead were buried at sea from a British destroyer. A strong British guard was placed aboard the Jose Luis Diez after her Spanish crew was taken off and interned in military detention barracks in Gibraltar. Next...
...from Bolshevist attacks. One day the Protet was ordered to fire on Russian towns to break Red morale. Second Officer Mechanic André Marty persuaded his fellow sailors to refuse to bombard defenseless citizens, threw his superiors in the brig, hoisted a red flag in sympathy with those on shore. For his mutiny André Marty was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor, of which he served three...