Word: torpedoed
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...British torpedo boat was said to have attacked an unidentified harbor of northern Norway Saturday after which troops were landed and harbor works destroyed...
...flagship in the Mediterranean fleet's spectacular show at Genoa on Feb. 9. Malaya, a sister of Queen Elizabeth, had lately been on convoy duty in the Atlantic. A 20-ft. gash in her port side, they told a Herald Tribune reporter, was the mark of a German torpedo in a submarine attack, the night of March 20. With her convoy of 20 merchant vessels apparently on a safe getaway, repairs-reporters guessed#151;under the provisions of the Lend-Lease...
...peace." Design of the North Carolina class was begun before the Navy had waked up, presumably was altered in time. The North Carolina has 20 5-in. guns, an undisclosed number of 1.1 pom-poms to ward off air attack (the five-inchers are also designed for use against torpedo carriers). This anti-aircraft armament represents an enormous advance over the Navy's last battleship, West Virginia (commissioned in 1923), which carries only eight 5-in. anti-aircraft guns...
...already the Italians had been attacked. Bombers and torpedo planes from a British carrier (probably the brand-new Formidable, whose presence in the Eastern Mediterranean was confirmed last week) buzzed around the southern squadron. They concentrated on the battleship, later identified as the Vittorio Veneto (35,000 tons, 15-inchers), which was hurt in the Taranto raid on Nov. 11 but had been repaired. Three torpedoes found the Vittorio Veneto's hull, probably in the stern works, and cut her speed from 32 to 15 knots...
...this point searchlights picked up two other Italian destroyers ideally placed for torpedo attack on the British Fleet. They bore away and launched torpedoes. Churning white wakes in the darkness, the torpedoes passed between the British ships without a hit. The most aggressive admiral could not take such risks with his battleships. Sir Andrew turned the capital ships away and ordered the British destroyers to go in and finish the hurt cruisers...