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...that Sunday night General Gordon Bennett's sampan had bumped into a seagoing junk carrying six British officers. The General's party switched to the larger vessel, set an uncertain course for Sumatra. The torn page of an atlas was their only chart. Dawn found them in waters a scant half-mile from a Japanese-held island. Their food and water were nearly gone when an Allied launch picked them...
...given his first command, a mine-sweeper, the Lark, which was in the mine force at Honolulu. He captained the vessel until 1938 when he was transferred to the Bureau of Navigation in Boston...
...President, was also "a very tough job." This great necessity was to maintain four lines of communication: 1) the North Atlantic, 2) the South Atlantic, 3) the Indian Ocean, 4) the South Pacific. (For a map of the world's battlefront Routes & Roads, see p. 15.) "A vessel can make a round trip by either route in about four months, or only three round trips in a whole year...
...means of subsistence, the Peirce and MacRitchie Reservoirs. They had flanked the city and destroyed or seized the airfields. They had cut off its rear by knocking out so many evacuating ships. They claimed to have sunk a light and an auxiliary cruiser, a submarine, two gunboats, a "special vessel" and eight transports, including one of 30,000 tons; to have damaged a light cruiser, a destroyer, two "special vessels," one torpedo boat and ten transports; to have forced the beaching of a Dutch cruiser, a minelayer, a transport...
Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, in his order sending the little Asiatic Fleet into the Strait, could have written no fitter farewell to his command (see p. 23). His battle order: Submarines and surface ships will attack the enemy, and no vessel will leave the scene of action until it is sunk or all its ammunition exhausted...