Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singapore's reason for existence, the Naval Base. They had captured its means of subsistence, the Peirce and MacRitchie Reservoirs. They had flanked the city and destroyed or seized the airfields. They had cut off its rear by knocking out so many evacuating ships. They claimed to have sunk a light and an auxiliary cruiser, a submarine, two gunboats, a "special vessel" and eight transports, including one of 30,000 tons; to have damaged a light cruiser, a destroyer, two "special vessels," one torpedo boat and ten transports; to have forced the beaching of a Dutch cruiser, a minelayer...
...Thomas Charles Hart, in his order sending the little Asiatic Fleet into the Strait, could have written no fitter farewell to his command (see p. 23). His battle order: Submarines and surface ships will attack the enemy, and no vessel will leave the scene of action until it is sunk or all its ammunition exhausted...
Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
...stories the rescued men had to tell, of grim courage and almost intolerable hardships, were not pretty. Neither was the fact that the W. L. Steed was the 16th merchant ship (including nine oil tankers) sunk off the U.S. east coast since the U.S. went...
Since the World War II sub campaign began, 15 ships, besides the 16 sunk in U.S. waters and the three off Aruba, have gone down off Canada. The total showed plainly that, in a week already black enough for the Allies, the Axis was smashing at the U.S. as dangerously on the Atlantic seaboard as in the Pacific. U-boats have accounted (by unofficial reckoning) for at least as much offshore tonnage as was lost during World War I. Approximately twice as many seamen have been killed or listed as missing; and the subs have done it in only...