Word: patroller
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Snow was falling on the sea. Each ship in the convoy moved through the night in a white-curtained cell of its own: the transports from New York, laden with munitions for Russia; the high-sided, thick-bowed Russian destroyers, adapted from Italian designs for ice-breaking and patrol in rough northern waters; Britain's new (1939) 8,000-ton cruiser Trinidad, the old and war-tried destroyer Eclipse, several other warships under the Union Jack. This convoy, for the first time in World War II, had brought together British and Soviet naval units for a common...
More significant than the actual losses in this particular foray was a later London announcement: the British had increased the naval strength assigned to the northern patrol between Iceland and Murmansk. For this there was a reason. After months when more & more British and U.S. war goods had found their way, with little interference, past Norway to Murmansk and Archangel, the Germans were stirring in their Norwegian lairs. The United Nations from now on would have to fight for one of the vital sea lanes of World...
...found the right answer to the big question: Whose ocean is the Atlantic? Nazi submarines still poked in past the screening patrol of warships and airplanes, still ripped great mortal holes in precious U.S. merchant hulls...
...smoke began to billow. Through the smoke ripped U.S. planes, bombing and gunning everything in sight. Before 9 o'clock the Japs were pretty well silenced, and the survivors sat among the smoking shambles of a promising advance base. The Japs had lost three four-motored seaplanes, two patrol boats, some dredges and fuel barges, a few prisoners picked up from sunken craft. U.S. loss: one plane...
...Chilean freighter Tolten was unluckier. A fortnight ago, after unloading her cargo at Baltimore, she was proceeding to New York. Chilean flag brightly illuminated, to load return cargo. A U.S. patrol boat ordered her to turn off her lights. Complying, she was presently torpedoed. Of her crew of 29, apparently only one lived to tell what had happened...