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...took her prize. Aboard the Weser was a fishy cargo: 19,000 bbl. of fuel oil, 600 bbl. of lubricating oil, 15 live steers, a large stock of fresh vegetables and a "lot of miscellaneous stuff." Her clearance papers were not in order. Mexican officials, who thought that the vessel was headed either for a supply rendezvous at sea, or for Vladivostok, whence the stocks would travel across Russia to Germany, admitted "stunning surprise" that a Canadian vessel should be operating in the Pacific and so far south...
With a shattering roar an explosion forward of the engine room threw the vessel violently on its beams, next minute a second torpedo crashed into the engine room. In an instant the whole ship was a hell of fire and water. Through the gaping holes in her sides, water poured into the ship, trapping scores of passengers, some of them wounded by the blast. In the darkness and storm it was almost impossible to launch lifeboats. She was listing farther every minute...
...Navy's order for 201 ships (the 201st being a repair vessel) will call for 732,000 tons in the next few years. Another 73,000 tons is now on order for Maritime Commission vessels...
...vessel was torpedoed about 10 P.M. last Tuesday night in the stormtossed Atlantic, 600 miles off the British coast, and 83 children were lost, virtually all of them from heavily-bombed districts of London, Liverpool and other cities...
...full stores of 21-inch (British-size) torpedoes for the twelve tubes, shells for the four 4-inch guns and lone, outmoded antiaircraft gun which each destroyer carried. Reportedly installed on some was Great Britain's prized DeGaussing rig of electrical cables, to foil magnetic mines. Aboard each vessel were some 60 U. S. Navy men and officers (about half the normal crew). They were detailed to deliver the ships (probably to Halifax), break in British crews. By week's end the Wood, Welles, Crowninshield, Buchanan, Herndon -eight destroyers all told-had left Boston, still flying...