Word: torpedos
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...sailors. Inspired already with her calamitous yearnings, she cultivated their friendship. Then one early morning, clad in a uniform which she had borrowed from one of them by saying she wanted it for a masquerade party, rowdy Ramilda sneaked onto the Sands and hid herself and suitcase in the torpedo room. There, several days later, she was discovered; first by a sailor, then by officers...
Last week, amid deadly secrecy, the Suffolk was inspected for the first time by civilians, when three Cabinet members and 150 M. P.'s went aboard. The Admiralty, shrewd to the last, decreed that the torpedo rooms, and gun control stations should be locked and all instrument panels covered with concealing canvas...
...Still more daring was a subsea voyage performed by Amir Amanullah in the British submarine L-22, off Southampton. When invited to fire a dummy torpedo, His Majesty pulled the trigger with apparent trepidation, but soon rallied and fired a second torpedo...
...from the bottom of the sea, exactly 15 minutes less than three months after it had been gored by the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding (TIME, Dec. 26). It was towed to the Navy Yard at Boston for inspection. Six bodies covered with mud and slime were found in the torpedo compartment. But nowhere was a written record of the horrible last hours of those bodies...
Mounting 10 torpedo tubes, a heavy gun, an anti-aircraft gun, and numerous machine guns, the Redoutable will have a cruising radius of 8,000 miles and can remain at sea for 60 days...