Word: tankerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preparations for South Atlantic raiding -this time by submarines-were as well laid. From the U. S. Algic, 900 miles off Angola, crackled the message: "Sighted suspicious vessel, large, white-painted, built similar to tanker, surrounded by four small craft, apparently submarines." Same day the tanker British Zeal was torpedoed farther north, off the Cape Verde Islands; two days later the Nalgora went down in the same waters...
...change her silhouette from day to day. Her superstructure was repeatedly repainted. Provisioned to cruise three years, she had slipped out of Hamburg with a crew of more than 300 on April 6 while R. N. was busy rushing to Norway. She refueled from her victims and the Nazi tanker Winnetou, which she met off Africa. She carried six guns and quantities of mines, 230 of which she laid off New Zealand. "You'd be surprised," said secrecy-bound Captain Arundele, "if you knew her name...
...ORLEANS-An American destroyer, the U.S. MacLeish of the neutrality patrol, witnessed the capture and destruction of the German blockade runner, the tanker Rhein, in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, it was disclosed tonight...
Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...
...survivors at a Canadian port. Meantime, into British ports crept 24 of the original convoy of 38, including the Rangitiki and Cornish City, whose radio messages, followed by silence, had marked them as surely lost. Then eight more slowpokes showed up. At the last came the wallowing, battered tanker San Demetrio, whose crew had abandoned her once, then reboarded her, put out a blaze, brought her home. The total loss out of 38 was but four ships, of not much more than 30,000 tons...