Word: two
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refuel-evidently on their way to Montevideo. The 31,100-ton battleship Barham, and the French battleship Dunkergue-it and the Renown two of five Allied ships which can both outrun and outgun German pocket battleships-and the 10,000-ton cruiser Cumberland were rumored to be waiting just over the horizon...
...two hours and to spare before the deadline, Spee weighed. Slowly she started moving for the breakwater mouth. The evening was clear-sun at the set, half moon already up, lazy little clouds. The supply ship Tacoma, with all Spee's married men aboard, picked up after...
...went back to Helgoland Bight and found the Messerschmitts waiting for them. In what the British called "fierce fighting" and the Germans "a terrific battle," the British (according to the British) got twelve Messerschmitts and lost seven bombers. According to Berlin, the British lost 34 bomb ers, the Germans two Messerschmitts...
...accidents as well as its accomplishments is the British Navy noted. On the same day last week that three British cruisers brilliantly defeated the Admiral Graf Spee (see above), two of the Navy's warships collided somewhere at sea and the destroyer Duchess went to the bottom with 129 men. The Admiralty refused to divulge either the place of the collision or the name of the other ship, but it could not conceal the fact that this was Britain's fourth largest naval disaster...
Coming on the heels of the Bremen's escape, this made two bulls to one beat for the week. Day after the Bremen's escape, the Admiralty announced that the submarine that let her get away had sunk a German submarine, had torpedoed and damaged a German cruiser. This evened the count. It is extremely difficult for one submarine to sink another. Maneuvering for position requires great technical skill, and it is almost impossible to attack if the submarine is submerged. If the range is under 250 yards, the torpedo is likely to miss, and at short range...