... lost ships have caught the bottom of the vehicle and overturned it on its way to the shore. 4 THE men go on working even with decks awash--clinging to the spars left standing. sometimes hanging by ropes to the brQiien ship, as she gradually falls to ...

... LOST SHIPS Mr. J. R. Hobhouse, chairman of the General Council, commenting on the report, said ‘Shipping losses arc confidential but, without disclosing anything unreasonable, it must be clear to everyone that if the losses this year are so bad as at ...

... LOST SHIPS Compensation query Compensation for ships that disappear at sea without trace has been the subject of negotiations, whose conclusion was announced in Washington to-day, between the War Shipping Administration and the America Institute of Marine ...

... The Lost Ships The Admiralty states that in the case of H.M.S. Neptune statements made by the enemy indicate that some of the ship’s company have been picked up and are prisoners. The greater part of the Kandahar’s complement are safe. Neptune (7,000 ...

... THE LOST SHIPS CRUISER CONVERTED FOR A.A. DEFENCE H.M.S. Calcutta (4.200 tons) was completed in August, 1919. According to “Janes Fighting Ships” her complement was and she is listed as an A.A. ship. She was 425 feet long and had eight 4in. A.A. guns ...

... THE LOST SHIPS 4 TWO OF THEM BUILT ON ...

... The Lost Ships H.M.S. Gloucester (9,400 tons), one of eight cruisers of the Southampton class, was launched at Devonport in 1937, completed in January, 1939, and had a normal complement of 700. She was one of the warships engaged in Admiral Cunningham’s ...

... LOST SHIPS OF THE AXIS —♦ 561 SUNK, SEIZED OR SCUTTLED Since the beginning of the war up.to the middle of May, 561 German and Italian ships of a total tonnage of 2,873,000 have been sunk, captured or scuttled. The German ships number 346, of tonnage of ...

... IN FOUR LOST SHIPS YOUNG B’HEAD SEAMAN’S YEAR’S EXPERIENCE The family of Henry Holmes, twenty-five-years-old seaman in the Merchant Service, were unaware that bad was not so much concerned about Mr. H. Holmes, the loss of his kit as the loss of 400 dollars ...

... NAZIS LOST SHIPS Including the Wahehe, the Nazis have now lost twenty-five vessels, aggregating 98,290 tons, by capture and twentyeight, representing 152,891 tons, mostly by scuttling. The Wahehe was one of six German vessels which recently left Vigo ...

... ON LOST SHIPS. Jack Dlckerson, who was the Repulse, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. George of Haddon Road, Burley, Leeds. In his schooldays he played Rugby for Burley National, and civil life was a painter and decorator with Messrs. Armltage, Town Street ...

... The Lost Ships The Prince of Wales was the second of five new 35,000-ton battleships due for completion under the 1937 programme when war broke out. Built by Cammell, Laird, of Birkenhead, she was laid down in January, 1937, and launched by the Princess ...