Word: channelize
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Last fortnight the British tanker Africa Shell was sunk in the Mozambique Channel two miles off Portuguese East Africa by two bombs placed in her by an emaciated boarding party (wearing British lifebelts) from a German raider of some 10,000 tons, identified by Africa Shell's crew as the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer...
...abandoned their shot-up plane at sea in a rubber boat, was returning to her patrol off Harwich when an explosion that felt on shore like an earthquake blasted her apart, killed 29 men. Another victim was the 11,063-ton refrigerator ship Sussex, damaged in the English Channel. Off one east-coast port, the British 8,886-ton freighter Mangalore was lying at anchor when a mine sank her-added evidence that at least part of Germany's attack was with illegal floaters. Further evidence in this direction was furnished when two mines bumped together and went...
Between the Nazi's mine warfare and Britain's reprisal blockade on German exports, effective this week, neutral shipping slowed to a standstill. Dutch ships stayed in port, Belgian too. Cross-Channel mail boats missed their runs or were rerouted below the British mine barrage at the Strait of Dover. True it was that this barrage, and a mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German...
...still floated abroad had been seized by the Allies. Only bright spots on The Netherlands' horizon were that: 1) although the Germans considered invading the country, they eventually decided against it, partly because the Dutch had effectively remodeled their land defenses, partly because Germany, already at the Belgian Channel ports, had money and used it to buy supplies in neutral Holland; 2) The Dutch East Indies, selling to the Allies, cleaned...
...They were being strengthened, but the last "blockship," which was to have been sunk athwart a channel to complete the Flow's blockade, did not arrive until the day after Royal Oak was torpedoed...