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...ships. A Jap cruiser slashed the darkness with her searchlight, caught the Helena, opened fire. The Helena was already on the target. She fired from the hip: a full salvo. The Jap burned like a torch, lighting the way for the U.S. destroyers. As the Jap cruiser began to sink, the Helena's secondary battery pounded down a destroyer...
...through last March it ended up with a net loss of 273,000 pesos ($56,500), and its present book value is only some $32,000. But United thought LAMSA's prospects were worth $145,750 for 3,750 shares of stock. UAL also announced that it would sink $1,000,000 more in improvements...
...swam to the boat and hauled himself over the gunwale, dropping to cover as Jap shells whistled around him. The dead sailor was stretched out on deck, the secret device still clutched in his hand. The officer pried it loose, swam with it to deep water and let it sink out of sight...
Cargill had time for one more ship experiment, the 12,500-ton tanker, Victoria, which was completed in the Albany yard in 1941, sold to Argentina in time to become the first Argentine ship torpedoed in World War II. The Victoria did not sink. She was torpedoed in what was thought to be the engine room, just under the stack, but the stack was a phony. The engine room was somewhere else...
...size of ships is a tricky thing to judge on the surface, let alone from the air in a 400-mile-an-hour warplane. But if the pilots did indeed sink a transport of the "Conte di Savoia class," then it must have been either the 49,000-ton Savoia herself or her companion (but not sister) ship, the 51,000-ton Rex. Either would be the biggest merchant vessel sunk by military action during...