Word: ajax
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...honorable in British naval annals is the name Ajax* and how far back into history march those annals, was called to mind last week when sailors of the present light cruiser Ajax, co-heroine of the Graf Spec fight, hung a new name under their ship's battle-honor plaque-THE PLATE. Above this sign, which refers to the River Plate (La Plata) between Uruguay and Argentina, appear legends signalizing exploits of five of the eight Ajax ships that have served Great Britain down the history of her long maritime mastery...
...Ajax No. 1, a 74-gun ship of the line of 1,619 tons built at Plymouth in 1767, fought Admiral de Langara under British Admiral Rodney off Cape St. Vincent, Spain, when the British destroyed the Spanish Fleet in 1780. In 1782 that Ajax fought in the Battle of the Saints, in the West Indies, under Rodney again, against France's Admiral de Grasse, who was taken prisoner. Ajax No. 2, an 80-gun line-of-battle ship built at Rotherhithe in 1798, took part in the British investiture of Alexandria in 1801, but did little sea-fighting...
Motto of the Ajax: Nee quisquam nisi Ajax, which in the U. S. Navy would be translated, "We can't do nothing till Ajax comes...
...lady of the Battle of Punta del Este, steaming home under her own power after being patched up in the Falkland Islands. Her funnels riddled, her sides repainted but still scarred by shells from the Admiral Graf Spee, she tied up at Devonport alongside her comrade in action, the Ajax (third participant, the Achilles, is still on duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who made a stirring speech in which he invoked the shades of Drake and Raleigh...
...Montevideo, enthusiastic native thousands pressed through a police cordon to get a good look at Ajax's two smashed gun turrets, to mend which she must go home to Britain. They goggled at the gap where a German shell tore through the cabin of Commodore (now Rear Admiral and Sir) Henry Harwood, smashed his bathroom, wiped out his wardrobe...