Word: tensest
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Intensive Persuasion." Next day the captains of all the warships in Cromarty Firth read the Admiralty's new orders to their crews. Ships were ordered to put out to sea and return to their home ports. British papers glossed over the next few hours: they were the tensest in the entire affair. Ringleaders refused to believe that once at sea they would not be sent to distant stations in punishment. It took two hours to get the anchors up. Grim laced sub-lieutenants slipped into their lockers for side arms. Correspondents passed over what happened below decks before the fleet...