Word: flotilla
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...soon as Divisional examinations are over, a Harvard flotilla will surge up the Charles River in an effort to find a "Southwest Passage" to Wellesley, it was announced today by the Harvard CRIMSON Athletic Association, sponsor of the expedition...
Monday morning the British destroyer Glowworm was proceeding with her flotilla to lay mines off the Norwegian coast when she lost a man overboard. Delayed in picking him up, the Glowworm was hurrying to overtake her companions when, northwest of Trondheim, she sighted a strange destroyer. "What ship is that?" she blinked in English. The answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon...
Phase Five: Extermination. Three days after Hero Warburton-Lee's raid, the battleship Warspite arrived off Narvik accompanied by the remains of the H-class destroyers, plus the heavier (1,870 ton) "Tribal" destroyer flotilla including the famed Cossack (which raided the prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters in February). This heavy force plowed up the fjord, silenced the Nazis' shore guns, sank seven destroyers, stood by to watch Norwegian shore forces clean out the landing party of 5,000 Nazis...
...Kirkland crew seems the favorite of the House flotilla, with Lowell far down on the list. The Bellboys can field a superior hardball nine which may give them enough points to wrest the crown, for the rest of the sports are evenly divided. Golf is a toss-up, while Kirkland looks to have a stronger set of racquetmen. The Deacons are backing their softball team as House champions...
...call of coastwise British steamers. Chefoo exports famed Shantung lace and most of the hairnets worn by U. S. women. Last week one of these ships, the Hunan, idled along off Chefoo. In its hold lay a cargo of bean cakes, machinery, flour, and beer for the British flotilla preparing to assist in the blockade of Vladivostok. A handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong; below decks a horde of Chinese coolies bickered and laughed. On the bridge the lookout casually...