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Thirteen to Seven. The Navy bleakly told how much of the Fleet did not remain. In the battle of Java the Japanese destroyed 13 Allied warships: five cruisers, seven destroyers, an armed sloop...
...Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about 800 on the Houston, 125 on the Pope...
...hold," he explained, "and the Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside of three minutes: a submarine, taking its cue from the flare, dropped its torpedo in a direct line for the British transport...
Independence. Near Boston, a grounded sloop abandoned by its crew on Deer Island floated out to sea, sailed to Plymouth by itself...
...might easily fish in a babbling brook that flows out of the lake past the building. The Commentator has taken a five-year lease. With wives and families the Commentator migration numbered about 20; they live in six houses overlooking the lake. Editor Eggleston took along his cruising sloop. Publisher Payson remained in Manhattan, will go to Lake Geneva once a month for editorial conference...