Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Since the British said the three ships carried 130 men & officers (about 23 over their normal complement) and the Germans announced taking alive 30 from their two known victims, it appeared that the Seahorse perished with all hands, probably after bumping a mine, that the Starfish and Undine were crippled by depth charges or caught in nets. Like Great Britain, Germany is known to use antisubmarine nets of at least three kinds: 1) of heavy 2½-in. steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets...
...this time our boat's complement had collected, and we waited anxiously for its appearance. I sat on the bottom of the steps...