Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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shipbuilders who can build any ship from a trawler to a battlewagon, from a tug to a liner, there are only three...
Bulging with indignation, the British Government announced that His Majesty's losses since April 9 were three destroyers, one submarine and one trawler sunk; one destroyer beached, one cruiser and two destroyers damaged but able to make port; three cruisers and four destroyers slightly damaged, the Renown and Rodney dented by shell and bomb but their fighting efficiency unimpaired...
Clearing skies over the North Sea last week droned anew with battle planes, and rattled with machine-gun fire. German bombers revived their attacks on Great Britain's trawler and fishing fleets. German reconnaissance planes celebrated Air Marshal Hermann Göring's 47th birthday by appearing over British east-coast headlands, estuaries and cities in numbers that suggested they were preparing the long-awaited mass bombing of British naval bases and supply docks...
...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...