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Their craft was an eggshell hull, without spars or sails or engine, riding the gale-lashed sea. She was, you might say, like a fishing trawler with never a thing in or on her. The storm was sweeping down from the northwest and snow mingled with the icy, driven spray, blotting out the weak northern...
Sunk in addition to the cruiser were two cargo ships, a tanker and a trawler. These successes, accomplished "somewhere in Far Eastern waters" were independent of operations in the Solomon Islands, where American se and air forces racked up a smashing victory against a Jap armada last weekend and where Marines launched a new land offensive on Guadalcanal Island...
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...