Word: warship
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...night fell the city's lights failed to wink on. The Vatican was blacked out too, lest its neutral and holy illumination guide airborne enemies on a raid. Inside, disheartened Pius XII knelt for an hour in his chapel in prayer. British diplomats would be evacuated by warship to Albania, thence could make their way into still neutral Greece, it was said. The Simplon-Orient Express had, of course, stopped running...
...celebration was ushered in officially when the massed ships of the Portuguese Navy, an American squadron and a Brazilian warship joined in a series of 21-gun salutes that shattered windows throughout the Lisbon harbor district. Then followed a solemn Te Deum in the Lisbon Cathedral with the Knights of Malta in their scarlet tunics, Army and Navy officials in dress uniform, city fathers in robes of office, and the gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy...
This was the first capture of a British warship since 1815, when H. M. S. Penguin was taken by U. S. S. Hornet off Tristan da Cunha a month after U. S. S. Constitution took two other British warships in a single battle...
...After being smuggled hither & yon through the mountains, narrowly escaping capture, Norway's remaining gold reserve (much of which had already been exported before the invasion began) .was spirited safely away from Molde in a British warship at about the same time as King Haakon. It went to vaults in Great Britain. Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, in London and Paris last week to take counsel and to call back exhortations to the Norse, announced that Norway had purchased for her stand in the north "huge quantities" of supplies and munitions from the British, enough grain to feed her soldiers...
...full retreat, the German High Command contradicted both Goebbels and D. N. B., claimed officially to have "destroyed" one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, eight destroyers, ten submarines, one transport. But Grand Admiral Erich Raeder asserted that "German warship .losses as alleged by the Allies are not in accordance with the facts. The reported sinking or beaching of the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the cruiser Liitzow, is completely invented. The same holds good for the alleged sinking of the Lloyd express steamship Bremen." (The sinking of the Bremen and the pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed...