Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter economic war that Great Britain was waging against Germany last week, as Sir John Simon made clear in his budget message (see p. 24). That Germany would fight back as ruthlessly was made equally clear when blockade-scared Berlin announced that armed merchantmen would be sunk without warning (see p. 34). There was good reason for Germany's retaliatory step, because Britain had already made gains in its economic offensive. Life in Germany was becoming increasingly grim. Items...
...easy to get a cable under the bow, Commander Momsen explained, because it was tilted upward, off the bed of the ocean. The stern, however, was sunk deep in solid blue clay...
...Admiral Edward Barry Stewart Bingham, 58, who commanded the destroyers and whose ship was sunk at 5 p.m., got the Victoria Cross. He died last week...
...radio log of the American Merchant reported the following series of messages received from the British freighter Fanad Head, sunk northwest of Ireland: 11:20 a.m. "S S S S" [Submarine...
...coastal waters around Great Britain was H. M. S. Courageous, oldest vessel of Britain's six aircraft carriers. Her broad, windswept flight deck was busy with planes coming & going to scout for U-boats. Last Sunday evening, just before the dusk hour at which the Athenia was sunk two Sundays prior, the eyes that saved others were not quick enough to save the Courageous. "There were two distinct bangs at intervals of about a second" (said a survivor) and the 22,500-ton craft - torpedoed squarely-keeled over and foundered in 30 minutes. Destroyers nearby raced for the triumphant...