Word: starboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the lookout came a new alarm: Two more enemy sighted. Light cruiser. Heavy cruiser. Starboard abeam...
Suddenly from the lookout came a message : Enemy light cruiser sighted. Convoy. Off the starboard...
...screen behind which Formose escaped. Meanwhile the other two-now identified as the light Achilles (7,030 tons) and the heavy Exeter (8,390 tons) -were flanking out to sea. Ajax apparently did the same, astern of Spee. This meant two disadvantages for the German -shoals and shore to starboard, glaring rising sun behind the enemy to port. Captain Langsdorff gave the order to work out to sea, into deeper water...
...lives, the Admiralty announced her attackers were two German raiders, one of them the pocket battleship Deutschland. The Admiralty said that when Rawalpindi ignored a shot across her bows, Deutschland fired a salvo with her 11-inch guns at 10,000 yards. Rawalpindi replied with all four of her starboard 6-inchers. Deutschland's, third salvo put out all the Britisher's lights, halted the electric ammunition hoists; a fourth tore away the bridge and wireless room. The second raider circled astern and attacked from Rawalpindi's, port side, but she fought on for half an hour...
...dogfight that has been going on since the season started over the right end post on Coach Harlow's eleven went into its third stage yesterday when it appeared that Joe Koufman, 180-pound Junior, would start at the starboard wing against Penn Saturday. This makes the third time that a different man has gained the starting call at the post, with Jim Devine working against Bates and Bart Kelly against Chicago...