Word: warship
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Aboard it were nine British prisoners of war who overpowered their guards, locked 100 soldiers below decks when the warship appeared...
...week at least two such ships were spotted by British reconnaissance. A British torpedo plane took care of one off the Dutch coast, a squadron of motor-torpedo boats the other, which was identified as the 5,943-ton Santos. Into the teeth of fire from an escorting German warship the "suicide" launches darted to make their kill. One of them was hit, but all got home, the British said. The Germans said three were hit and that the damaged Santos made shore at the mouth of the Scheldt...
...covered the Italian drive on Sidi Bârrani. Later he flew with the R. A. F. on bombing missions, toured the Mediterranean on a British cruiser. (Respectful tars christened him "Barnacle Barnes, the Sailor.") When Mussolini's invincible troops invaded Greece, Ralph Barnes boarded a British warship, sailed for Athens...
...papers accounting for 12,000 cases of ammunition and eight knocked down planes, smuggled in off a Nazi freighter. Maps were produced showing Almazanista military centres and broadcasting stations. Almazan's strength was put at 250,000 men under onetime Labor Boss Luis M. Morones, backed by a Nazi warship and 14 more planes. Police uncovered plans to cut off the capital's power, light and communications as a signal for armed attacks on the Presidential Palace and key public buildings...
...merchantmen, that had left Halifax a week prior, bound straight across to Great Britain. Even allowing for rough weather and zigzagging, they should have been nearly across instead of only halfway between Cape Race, N. F. and North Ireland. They were in a stretch between where their warship escorts from Canada left them and their escorts from Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed. If a German pocket battleship-the Admiral S cheer or the Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could...