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...true, revealed one of the most devastating attacks British shipping had yet suffered. He was aboard a German surface raider (from its speed and gun-power, probably a pocket battleship), cruising the waters between Madeira and the Azores. Said he: "Tuesday we encountered an armed English merchantman. . . . This vessel was sunk by several well aimed salvos and soon only floating oranges marked the spot. . . . Soon after sunrise Wednesday, we saw three tiny shadows. Then we saw five, then six, then eight, and then more & more. We fired a first salvo of medium calibre shells. A fireball went up from...
...maddening two months' search in which his fleet had been without benefit of speedy frigates for scouting, Nelson with his 14 ships of the line came on the fleet of 15 Frenchmen at anchor. Moving down both sides of the badly arranged enemy, the British overcame one vessel at a time> Only two escaped. The French flagship Orient took fire and blew up-and with it died the flag captain's son, Giacomo Casabianca, whose willful refusal to get away with the crew won him a sort of immortality as Felicia Dorothea Hemans' Boy on the Burning...
...bill described defense articles as: any weapon, munition, aircraft, vessel or boat; any machinery for the production, processing, repair, servicing or operation of any article; any component material or part; any other commodity or article for defense. In short: almost anything is a defense article, if the President says...
Examinations in the course are far more practical than has been admitted. There is a great deal of memory required, it is true. One must know the rules of the road, however, before one can handle a vessel in crowded waters; they must be memorized. In the recent Naval Science III hour examination a very good refutation of the author's criticism appeared. The question outlined a certain situation and then desired to know what violations of safety rules were present. This is a practical and interesting way of asking for information. The editor mentioned navigation but forgot spotting, mooring...
Preparations for South Atlantic raiding -this time by submarines-were as well laid. From the U. S. Algic, 900 miles off Angola, crackled the message: "Sighted suspicious vessel, large, white-painted, built similar to tanker, surrounded by four small craft, apparently submarines." Same day the tanker British Zeal was torpedoed farther north, off the Cape Verde Islands; two days later the Nalgora went down in the same waters...