Word: sinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulls to one beat for the week. Day after the Bremen's escape, the Admiralty announced that the submarine that let her get away had sunk a German submarine, had torpedoed and damaged a German cruiser. This evened the count. It is extremely difficult for one submarine to sink another. Maneuvering for position requires great technical skill, and it is almost impossible to attack if the submarine is submerged. If the range is under 250 yards, the torpedo is likely to miss, and at short range the explosion of a torpedo is dangerous to the attacker as well...
...perfectly sickeningly hot, it has turned icy cold. We are five in a room, but hope that will be altered as there is no room to move and until I went home and got a tin jug & basin for our room, 24 women had to wash at the kitchen sink, amongst the cooking & washing up! It really was the limit and I thought I should really have to chuck it. It wasn't so much the discomfort as the feeling one was a prisoner, but now we are getting 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off which...
...overhauled by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, which put aboard her 38 survivors of the British freighter Stone-gate, torpedoed earlier by Deutschland. Finding that Flint carried oil in large quantities, the German boarding officers asked Deutschland's commander what to do. He kindly decided not to sink her, but to put aboard a prize crew, send her to Germany...
...Twenty minutes later the U-boat fired three or four torpedoes and these, striking in quick succession, caused the ship to capsize and sink." Final figures from the Admiralty put the dead at 810, survivors...
Admiral Nomura, who knows the difference between a quarterdeck and a quartermaster but is a little hazy on parliamentary procedure, came away from the next Cabinet meeting a sad man. "I am like a naval officer," he said, "who has been sent out to sink an enemy ship -and failed." The plan was going through...