Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took three days to return to Bordeaux with her catch. . . . Again and again, we discussed the whole affair; gradually we managed to piece the story together and find out what had actually happened. We learned that the Yorkshire had taken only eight and a half minutes to sink, and that three lifeboats had been smashed by the explosion. We learned, too, of the particularly tragic fate of one boatload. It was No. 5 boat, the one in which I should have been. Several women and children had been put in before the sea had come aboard the promenade deck...