Word: trawlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Lord Portsea begged the House of Lords to let him sail in a 20-ft. trawler (offered by a 77-year-old friend) with a cargo of food for the Jersey islanders. He pleaded: "It is for the children, more especially, that we plead. . . . Those little ones must perish, or worse, they must linger out their miserable lives stunted in mind and body unless we help them. . . . The task of this pleading is almost too much for me-is almost beyond...
...Small tug or trawler equipped with anti-aircraft guns. †Named after Captain Franklin Buchanan, founder of Annapolis and first U. S. Naval officer of Commodore Perry's expedition to set foot on Japanese soil...
...British claimed successes against German shipping. If they sank only one-half of the 257,000 tons of German bottoms they claimed for May, still they were doing well. The Admiralty announced that naval forces had tracked down and sunk seven enemy naval auxiliaries-six supply ships and a trawler which had been used to service surface raiders...
...British were able to announce the destruction of fish-and whale-oil plants; the sinking of eleven ships totaling 18,000 tons, including an armed trawler and a good-sized supply ship; the capture of 215 Germans and ten Quislingist Norwegians; the carrying off of 300 Norwegian patriots who wanted to fight for Britain; and-here was the propaganda-the distribution to Norwegians of food, cigarets, chocolates, wool yarn and high heart. From Stockholm it was reported that the Germans answered this bagatelle with considerable fury: by fining the Svolvoerans 100,000 crowns, burning the homes of the escaped patriots...
Just before dawn the trawler North Star, inbound for Boston with a load of fish, caught sight of the Mary E. O'Hara's masts. Five of the crew were still hanging on. One man slipped off even as the North Star hove to alongside, but he was fished out alive. Another, frozen to his perch, had to be pried loose...