Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation of more than the usual eight anti-aircraft guns. Other ordnance: nine 8-in. guns in three turrets; eight 5-in. guns; six torpedo tubes. She also carries four planes...
...personally directed the fire of almost all the 288 field guns allotted Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. London will get as naval attaché Captain Erwin Wassner who commanded a submarine in the English Channel, won a decoration from All Highest Wilhelm II for his smart torpedo work...
...surrender, but their captain was stubborn.. When we were near enough the man at the top of our mast called out to clear the gun, and we had to fire. The stovepipe went flying through the air, and the captain of the steamer thought it was an aerial torpedo, so he immediately surrendered. When we took possession of the boat we found that its cargo was chiefly wines and Champagne...
...four-day battle was ending by prearrangement the Arkansas was hit by a torpedo and went to the bottom. Sinking, Admiral Willard flashed command of the Blue fleet to Admiral Reeves aboard the Saratoga...
Escorted by a squadron of Turkish torpedo boats, the Tsar Ferdinand finally dropped anchor off the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas. With a cross in one hand, an icon in the other, the Metropolitan Hilarion ("the Merry One") was first to welcome Their Majesties home. On the wharf a comely company of Bulgarian maidens poured water on the feet of Tsar Boris, a similar group of young men sprinkled his bride, now Tsaritza Ivana, as a hope that their lives might be as smooth as the surface of water...