Word: two
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the lookout came a new alarm: Two more enemy sighted. Light cruiser. Heavy cruiser. Starboard abeam...
...crews slid into the two heavy turrets fore and aft and dogged the traps after them. The huge barrels nodded as if eager to belch. Lines of fire hose were dragged out on deck and left sputtering into the waterways. The decks emptied...
Spee's brig from nine such helpless victims. This life of raiding was good. Risks, yes, but mostly just an easy kill every three or four days. Two Limeys in one day off Africa a week ago; now a Frenchman off Uruguay...
Three cruisers to fight. She should be able to wallop them. The two light cruisers carried 6-inchers-too light to pierce the Spee'?, heavy armor, but plenty big enough to do damage far forward and aft, where the skin was thin, and in parts of the superstructure. And they could do six and one-half knots better than the Spee, maybe eight and one-half with all the truck-&-barnacles the German had picked up in the southern seas. The heavy cruiser was something to think about-8-inchers (they could crack most of the Spee...
...Spee had two turrets of n-inchers. That is power. A direct hit with 670 pounds of explosive-packed armor-piercer could blow a hole big as a suite at the Hotel Adlon in any of these ships. Then she had the eight 5-9-inchers as well. Roughly, the Spee had a 3-to-1 advantage in armament and fire-power over all three cruisers put together...