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...enemy mines, submarines, airplanes or shore batteries, the ships lay there and pumped broadside after broadside into Italy's fourth city, her chief merchant port. Over 300 tons of shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown, the 31,000-ton battleship Malaya, a veteran of Jutland, the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the 9,100-ton cruiser Sheffield...
...triangle and a xylophone (some of them played with their feet), had grown as skittish as a couple of prima donnas. But by the time they got it whipped into shape, the sonata sounded like a piano conservatory tinkling sweetly above the din of a well-oiled, distant boiler works. Town Hall's audience applauded loudly at its close...
...laboratories at Camden (TIME, Jan. 9, 1939). R. C. A.'s big man in the field is Russian-born, reticent Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who is also its television ace. His first electron microscope was as big as a hot-water boiler, needed a whole roomful of high-voltage equipment to run. Since then R. C. A. has designed a smaller, slimmer, slicker instrument, whose power plant occupies only two cubic feet. R. C. A. says that any bright person can learn to get good results with it in an hour. Last week R. C. A. was ready to market...
Perhaps you will agree with me that the story has its dubious side. A more logical conclusion is that the "torpedoed" vessel in convoy met with an accident of a quite different nature. Possibly an internal explosion-sabotage, if you will-such as a boiler explosion; the power is sufficient. Or perhaps a collision with another ship: in the darkness somebody zigged when he should have zagged. In either case an alert British propagandist could make excellent capital of the mishap-with a rigid and sympathetic censorship holding up the news until the collective stories should hang together fairly well...
...Other ships have been torpedoed at night. 2) Modern submarines can fire torpedoes in high seas. 3) It would be normal to fire at least two torpedoes, since high seas lessen accuracy. 4) The City of Benares (11,801 tons) was a catch worth two torpedoes. 5) A boiler or other internal explosion would blow up through the decks, tend to produce a slow sinking (The City of Benares sank within half an hour). 6) That week (Sept. 15-22) Germany claimed the sinking of 201,862 tons of shipping and the British acknowledged a loss of 131,857 tons...