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...Carnarvon Castle, hit 22 times, with seven dead, 24 wounded and one hole so near her water line that ballast had to be shifted to make her list away from it, plowed into Montevideo, just ten days before the anniversary of the sinking of the Graf Spee. On the way in she passed a British battle squadron in hot pursuit of the Nazi...
...music continuities: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the John Kirby Show. Best newscasters: Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams and Raymond Gram Swing. Best spot reporting: James Bowen's description of the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee. Best sports report: Ted Husing on The Belmont Stakes...
...Being gunned by enemy ship of Graf Spee class in Lat. 52.45° N., Long...
...Being shelled in Lat. 52.50° N., Long. 32.15° W." A bit later the marine radio station in Portishead, England, which was relaying the convoy's messages, reported: "Convoy still being leisurely attacked by raider of Graf Spee class, Lat. 52.50° N., Long...
...easy range of the torpedo boats based at Syracuse. Heavy darkness and calm sea made it perfect. Fanning out ahead of the main British forces, H.M.S. Ajax flirted with the shrouded Sicilian coast to draw the Italians out. This was the light cruiser which had run the Admiral Graf Spee to cover in Montevideo last winter. Tall, square-jawed Captain E. B. D. McCarthy was itching for a chance to test the motto of his new command: Nec quisquam nisi Ajax (colloquially: You can't do nothing till Ajax comes...