Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doubtless because he knew the Regent could sink at least one Italian ship in a fight, the Italian courteously granted the request. But courtesy did not imply confidence. To make sure that neither side double-crossed the other, it was agreed that an Italian staff officer should board the Regent as an observer-hostage while the British mate was ashore. For nine hours the Regent lay in Cattaro harbor in what an Admiralty report called "this tense but farcical situation." Then two Italian dive-bombers appeared over the harbor, and at this point British and Italian versions of the incident...
...point. Dickerman played his best golf in two years, returning to his Sophomore form. Don Peddie upset the Green leader, Bill Clark, by a score of 3 to 2, and, together with Gerry Davis, beat Clark and Maxwell in the foursome, 1 to 0. The Indian chief could not sink his putts, and three-putted six greens...
...Margetson gives a polished performance with plenty of English as the philandering husband of Julia who finally forsakes his "Vermin in Ermine" and returns to the fold. Carl Harbord is thoroughly sufficient as spite-lover of Julia and a young accountant who gets way out of his depth to sink ingloriously in the end. And the rest are all good, heavily-accented English characterizations. It won't be theatre weather when "Theatre" hits New York, but fast lines and a fine cast should hold the Palmbeach Parade 'till the air conditioning fails...
...After the terrible losses (394,700 tons) of April 1917, the worst month of unrestricted submarine warfare, the convoy system was devised. And it worked. Of all the British ships convoyed across the Atlantic in 1917 and 1918, 99.08% reached their destinations safely. Destroyers learned how to spot and sink U-boats. By the end of the war, destroyers and their depth charges had reduced the rate of sinkings by 71%. The striking difference between this record and that of World War II is the result of strikingly different conditions...
...blue water. ... It will indeed be disastrous if the great masses of weapons, munitions and instruments of war of all kinds made with the toil and skill of American hands at the cost of the United States and loans to us under the Aid-to-Britain Bill were to sink into the depths of the ocean and never reach the hard-pressed fighting line. That would be lamentable to us, and I cannot believe it would be found acceptable to the proud and resolute people of the United States." Winston Churchill's words added up to a desperate warning...