Word: torpedoed
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Italy laughed off the Colleoni''?, loss by claiming to have sunk a British submarine in the eastern Mediterranean last week, a 15,000-ton British supply ship bound for Malta, and to have bombed out the Malta torpedo factory. Italy boasted: "Great Britain's naval domination of the Mediterranean has been replaced by Italian air supremacy in this sphere." Meantime, British communiques clarified what happened last fortnight south of Crete where Italian airmen claimed they sank a British cruiser on July 8. The cruiser was the Gloucester (9,300 tons) and her commander, Captain Frederick Rodney Garside...
...aged Italian merchants and businessmen interned when Italy declared war. They were loaded into the 15,501-ton Arandora Star and headed for Canada around the north end of Ireland, guarded by 200 British soldiers and a crew of 300. Early the second day out, without warning, a German torpedo took the Arandora Star full in the waist, blew such a hole in her that she sank in two minutes. Survivors told a hideous story of how the Germans fought and trampled the Italians, killed crew members and each other, fighting for places in the lifeboats. Only 572 prisoners were...
South Anchor of the British blockade is that towering prong of limestone, Hades-hot in summer, 2½ miles long and 1,396 ft. high, which points like a torpedo from the Spanish mainland southward across the 15-mile Strait of Gibraltar separating Europe and Africa...
...Stop ship. Ease-to ship. Torpedo ship...
...ghostly dialogue paused. At the first leave-ship command, the sirens were sounded and the crew herded as many passengers as possible into lifeboats before the Washington was sunk by a torpedo. On the captain's orders, the ship's photographer clicked a record of the scene. In the chill dawn women and children began to pile into the boats. Faint light played over the flags painted on the Washington's sides, but the flag suspended between its funnels glowed under floodlights. Though ten minutes was not enough, there was no panic...