Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their shells could do no more than annoy the battleship. But they fired away. A British destroyer careened out of the smokescreen. The captain was certain that he holed the battleship with a torpedo. Another destroyer captain believed that he got a second hit. The battle ship did not sink, but it had had enough. At dusk, after five hours of combat, the Italians gave...
Chile received prompt regrets from the German Government. Vice Admiral Julio Allard, Commander in Chief and Director General of the Chilean Navy, announced himself satisfied that there had been "no deliberate intent" to sink a Chilean ship, explained: "Inasmuch as the ship was proceeding without lights . . . the submarine could not know under what flag the Tolten was navigating." While the Chilean Government drafted a note protesting to the U.S. for the fatal order to extinguish lights, reportedly serving formal notice that Chilean ships would under no circumstances run blacked out, Ambassador Rodolfo Michels Cavero in Washington demanded another ship...
...same time, Samborski revealed that the three high-scorers of the loop were Cameron with 110 points, Ezell with 34 markers and Harvey with 70 tallies. Cameron's total was especially noteworthy due to his guard position and the number of long shots he was forced to sink to garner his leading record...
...neither Japan nor the British people had time to waste. Unless every possible iota of Indian strength and spirit were called on, a day might soon come when Britain's Captains and Kings would depart from India, and the fire of Britain's power and glory would sink, perhaps forever, from India's dunes and headlands...
...opinion of Cissie is partly unprintable. According to a Washington story, she has said: "There isn't a night goes by that I don't get down on my knees and pray that they take the off shore duty and put him on a destroyer that will sink...