Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rear by knocking out so many evacuating ships. They claimed to have sunk a light and an auxiliary cruiser, a submarine, two gunboats, a "special vessel" and eight transports, including one of 30,000 tons; to have damaged a light cruiser, a destroyer, two "special vessels," one torpedo boat and ten transports; to have forced the beaching of a Dutch cruiser, a minelayer, a transport...
Scout bombers delivered the first blows at the Jap's main airdromes; torpedo planes followed them into his chief anchorages. Surface ships moved in on likely shore targets. From a Jap airdrome five bombers managed to take off, head for a carrier. A U.S. fighter set a Jap's engine afire...
...Navy no longer reveals specific items on which it intends to spend the country's cash. Its new ships may range from 75-ft. torpedo boats to 45,000-ton battlewagons. To build them, shipyard facilities will have to be mightily increased. For shipyards alone, Congress has authorized an additional $750,000,000 (two Panama Canals...
...Lady Hawkins skittered across a slick, black ocean. Scarcely 100 yards away a U-boat reared up out of the sea for the brief space of 60 seconds. The raider fingered the Lady coldly with a pair of searchlights. Then the Lady Hawkins shuddered under the impact of a torpedo. Her forward mast crashed. Over on her side careened the 7,988-ton liner. Passengers and crew tumbled into the sea. A second torpedo exploded in the Lady Hawkins' engine room and her career ended...
Heavy Axis bombings had for seven weeks been used in an attempt to make the sea lanes safe for reinforcements for Rommel. Last week the British spotted and went out with bombers and torpedo planes to meet a big Axis convoy led by a battleship, four cruisers, 15 destroyers. They claimed the probable sinking of a 20,000-ton liner, damage to one of three supply ships...