Word: toed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gun crews slid into the two heavy turrets fore and aft and dogged the traps after them. The huge barrels nodded as if eager to belch. Lines of fire hose were dragged out on deck and left sputtering into the waterways. The decks emptied of men.
Three cruisers to fight. She should be able to wallop them. The two light cruisers carried 6-inchers-too light to pierce the Spee'?, heavy armor, but plenty big enough to do damage far forward and aft, where the skin was thin, and in parts of the superstructure. And...
But Spee had two turrets of n-inchers. That is power. A direct hit with 670 pounds of explosive-packed armor-piercer could blow a hole big as a suite at the Hotel Adlon in any of these ships. Then she had the eight 5-9-inchers as well. Roughly...
The Ajax dampered her fires and set a smoke 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...
By now Achilles and Exeter were deployed and sheering in. Spee. had to train both big turrets on Exeter, and just keep the others off with 5.93. The engagement settled down to a running dogfight. Tactic of the Britons, directed from the Exeter by Commodore Henry H. Harwood, Commander of...