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...lost 63,000 tons of warship or about half the losses in the first six months of the last war." Same time Mr. Churchill admitted, since the well-kept secret had at last leaked out in Germany, that in December the battleship Nelson, once flagship of the Home Fleet, was damaged by a mine, is being repaired. Also he revealed that the battleship torpedoed (but not sunk) after convoying the first Canadians in January was the Barham...
Southern Stirrings. While the Soviet Fleet maneuvered in the Black Sea, a British cruiser halted and searched the Soviet freighter Svanetia just outside the Dardanelles. The Turkish Cabinet invoked its new powers, set up a committee to coordinate war effort...
...from other countries in ever-increasing quantities, Finland might turn the tide. With Russian bombs falling on the Swedish town of Pajala and Sweden approaching a crisis over help to the Finns, with Turkey growing restless on Russia's southern border, and with a part of the British fleet lying somewhere off Petsamo, Finland's fate might be decided by a hasty word or the accidental discharge...
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...
...With a fleet of battered old tubs, inadequate clothing, excellent instruments, he sailed off in 1838. He had 83 officers, 342 enlisted men, nine scientists. In 1840 he established the existence of 1,500 miles of Antarctic coastline. On the way home he did a lot more exploring, some of it in the South Sea Islands. Not long after dropping anchor off New York in 1842, Wilkes was attacked in Congress for killing some cannibals who had murdered two of his officers; also for cruel and inhuman treatment of his men and for disrespect to a superior. He was exonerated...