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Meantime the German Air Force exacted an involuntary tribute from the British. The magnetic-mine-laying campaign of Nazi planes in early December obliged Britain to organize, at great effort and expense, a mine-sweeping fleet large enough to clear hundreds of square miles of coastal channels. By laying occasional mines since the original barrage, Nazi planes have obliged the sweepers to keep up their interminable precautionary labor. By attacking the sweepers with bombs and machine guns, and also attacking fishing boats (eyes for the fleet) and lightships, Nazi planes forced Britain to establish further naval and aerial coast patrols...
...Ships, like men, grow old (but do not necessarily lose their usefulness). In addition to overage but serviceable vessels, which alone would comprise a respectable fleet, the Navy is shooting for a monster, modern, under-age force to include: 18 battleships, eleven aircraft carriers, 6,000 planes, 53 cruisers, 202 destroyers, 88 submarines, 36 blimps (for coastal observation). Then the U. S. indeed would have what its admirals prescribe-a fleet mighty enough to beat any other naval power, friendly Great Britain included...
...Rumanian Navy discovered that Russia's Fleet was holding unscheduled maneuvers in the Black Sea off the Turkish and Bulgarian coasts. All Rumanian shipping promptly tied up in port...
...last week suffered: the British destroyer Viscount reportedly hit a mine. Meanwhile the week's total tonnage sunk (15,292) was the second lightest of the war to date. The week's biggest sea news was announced officially by the French Admiralty: that Germany is constructing a fleet of 150-ton submarines, which can be turned out much faster than 500-to 740-ton U-boats, and will require only 20 officers & men instead of 35 to 40. These new ships, said France, would be able to cruise only four or five days, but there will...
...Knowing that the British Battle Fleet was no longer based constantly at Scapa Flow, but apparently also using Belfast for greater safety; and knowing that since the late Rawalpindi's encounter (TIME, Dec. 4) capital ships have been out looking for the raider Deutschland, and also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between...