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Suddenly from the lookout came a message : Enemy light cruiser sighted. Convoy. Off the starboard...
...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...
...never. Fire! Then I pull the periscope down, quickly to the starboard. There is breathless tension in the boat...
...remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment it stands out from the ruck of service pictures by virtue of its material: as exciting as a periscope rising off starboard, as dramatic as the prayerful waiting of men trapped in a delicate mechanism at the bottom of a turbulent, exploding...