Word: torpedoed
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...looked back over my shoulder and saw a great red sheet of flame with smoky edges hanging in the sky above our stern. I once more struggled to my feet, just in time to be thrown over by the second torpedo which hit us amidships. . . . Somebody said "Put your arm around my neck," and we all trooped...
...boat station was Starboard 5. ... Near this boat station there was a companionway which leads over No. 3 hatch, and it was here that the second torpedo had struck us. The boards covering this hatch had been blown off by the force of the explosion, and there was a deep yawning hole...
...recognition of fishermen's and trawlers' services to the nation (and in part confirmation of Germany's contention that they are combatants), George VI last week reviewed a contingent of them, salt-caked in their sea boots and ragged overcoats, on the docks at Devonport Torpedo School. He bestowed no medals because, said the Admiralty: "You'd have to give medals to nearly every one of them-and what do they want with medals anyway?" The King boarded a trawler, dirtied his gloves fingering depth-charge apparatus and trawling gear. Later he helped receive a delegation...
Coming on the heels of the Bremen's escape, this made two bulls to one beat for the week. Day after the Bremen's escape, the Admiralty announced that the submarine that let her get away had sunk a German submarine, had torpedoed and damaged a German cruiser. This evened the count. It is extremely difficult for one submarine to sink another. Maneuvering for position requires great technical skill, and it is almost impossible to attack if the submarine is submerged. If the range is under 250 yards, the torpedo is likely to miss, and at short range...
...Churchill revealed that 1,000 British merchantmen have been armed to shoot in self-defense at U-boats, that "before long" 2,000 will be so armed. He pointed out that torpedo attack from beneath the surface "can only be delivered at a quarter of the speed that is possible to U-boats on the surface." Not all naval experts would agree. But of convoyed ships declared the First Lord, "less than one in 750 has been sunk...