Word: torpedoed
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...torpedo which, if it misses the target ship on the first try, turns around and tries again...
LONDON--The British Admiralty tonight admitted that "a torpedo or a mine" damaged the new 10,000-ten cruiser Belfast near the entrance to the Firth of Forth Tuesday, the same night that a mine sank the destroyer-Gipsy...
...When the first torpedo struck, most of Royal Oak's officers & men scurried to battle stations beneath the ship's armor, thinking a plane must be bombing; a submarine attack was unthinkable...
...along a kitchen wall, the celebrated little U. S. freighter City of Flint hugged the rough Norwegian coast last week as it crept down from Tromsö. The Government of Norway, not the least like a skittish housewife in its presence, detailed the mine layer Olaf Tryggvason and a torpedo boat to watch her. Off a fiord north of Bergen, the German prize crew requested that because of a sick man aboard, it should be allowed to put in at Haugesund, 60 miles south of Bergen and last port before the jump-off into British-patrolled waters. A doctor from...
...thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...