Word: merchantship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibility: the base was a ship at sea. Last week the world's largest submarine, France's Surcouf, claimed capture of a German merchantship 1,000 miles out in the Atlantic. The raider also may have had a rendezvous with the 13.615-ton passenger vessel Cap Norte, one of the fastest German ships in the South Atlantic service, unreported since she sailed from Pernambuco fortnight ago heavily loaded with fuel and accompanied by two German freighters carrying fuel and foodstuffs...