... work together So many individual heroic deeds have been enacted on the bomb-battered open beaches of France on the big and little ships that have gone and again and again with the weary but still cheerful warriors in the planes that far and wide curtained ...

... a powerful mine which according to all accepted standards ought to have sunk a far larger ship than a destroyer But the little ship was able to reach Gibraltar safely and after repairs was soon in service again Foreign Powers often buy destroyers from ...