Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided in Brit ain to send out new tanks and guns, and that the matter was so urgent that the supplies should not go around Africa but should risk the Mediterranean. The last time the British tried that, the aircraft carrier Illustrious was knocked out and the light cruiser Southampton sunk...
...Luftwaffe did some dark electioneering for Candidate Smith -by striking, night after shrieking night, at Britain's port towns. Candidate Smith's cause did not suffer by the fact that Birmingham was comparatively spared, that the pattern for the moment was a new and ominous one: Southampton, Portsmouth, Portland, Devonport (Plymouth), Milford Haven, Pembroke-all the stations and installations of Britain's most important weapon in Britain's most important battle...
...that all. Of all the British ports, only Liverpool and those on the Clyde and Severn-lying on the western side of Britain-are operating at anywhere near full efficiency. Edinburgh, Newcastle, Hull, London and Southampton, thanks primarily to U-boat concentrations and to a lesser extent to the Luftwaffe's awful flirtations, are decreasingly effective (in the order named). The ports, in short, are bottlenecks which reduce the effective use of the merchant fleet to the equivalent of about 5,000,000 tons...
...were free to use the Mediterranean as a supply route. The entrance of Italy into this war signalized the stoppage of the Mediterranean short cut. The British have only tried to put one large convoy through since last June, and that was the one in which the light cruiser Southampton was sunk and the aircraft carrier Illustrious was given a dreadful pasting by Axis dive-bombers. The effect of this was not only to put an added strain on British merchant shipping by requiring it to use the longer Cape route, but to force Britain to send many...
...their reconnaissance planes report where each convoy arriving in Britain anchored, and then sent bombers to try to annihilate it. This was the mission of recent raids (many of them two nights in a row) on Swansea and Cardiff in Wales, Glasgow in Scotland, and Hull, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton in England. Even in London, which last week received its worst raid in six months, the primary target was the docks. In each port the Germans did not mind if there was tremendous ancillary damage to houses, lives, communications and morale. (In the second night's raid on Plymouth...