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Updated: June 19, 2025
While the destroyers led in the anti-submarine warfare, the 406 submarine chasers, of which 335 were despatched abroad, should have credit for efficient aid, also the American submarines sent to foreign waters.
They were surrounded by a numerous screen of destroyers and light cruisers, the former at that range through the periscope appearing as black smudges. It is not often one is permitted such a spectacle in modern war, and I could not tear myself away from the sight of those great brutes, whom I had fought when in the Derflingger at Dogger Bank and again when in the Koenig at Jutland.
For a few seconds as she stared through the glasses Vera made no reply. As she turned to present the glasses to Peggy, Vera shook her head. "Then I am a better American than you are, Bettina, because I most assuredly do not feel as you do. Our guard of destroyers gives me an almost perfect sense of security.
"They drown out there in that black water and we leave them to that!" Lanyard turned. "The destroyers will take care of them," he said "if any survived that explosion with strength enough to swim." He spoke from the surface of his thoughts and with a calm that veiled profound surprise.
The Battle-cruisers are somewhere beyond them again, with their Light Cruisers and Destroyers about thirty miles to the southward. The hands are at dinner and all is peace. She's keeping station quite well now." The speaker moved to the range-finder again and peered into it at the next ahead. "Right to a yard, James." Thorogood nodded. "Thank you: I hope I'll succeed in keeping her there.
It was merely an episode of a few light cruisers, anything up to a score of destroyers, and some seaplanes; quite a minor and a comparatively unimportant little business which elicited a brief announcement from the Secretary of the Admiralty, and must have proved rather a Godsend to those newspapers whose readers were anxious for naval news in any shape or form.
Once in port, they would take a cargo of cotton, and would run out on a dark night or during a storm. During the war, 1504 vessels of all kinds were captured or destroyed. The Commerce Destroyers.% While the North was thus busy destroying the trade of the South, the South was busy destroying the enormous trade of the North.
At present, my instructions are to deal with the lighter craft only: destroyers and that sort of thing, you know." "But don't you fire on them?" said Lennard. "What would happen if they got a torpedo under you?" "Well," said Erskine, "as a matter of fact I don't think destroyers are worth shooting at. Our guns are meant for bigger game. But it's no good trying to explain things now.
I expect the Destroyers got back some time before the big ships, and we shall hear later in the day. Rob will telegraph to me directly he gets into harbour, I know." She spoke with calm conviction, as if wars and rumours of wars held no terrors for her. "And now," she said, smiling to them both, "let's be charwomen and drink tea in the middle of the forenoon!"
Soon after seven o'clock, twenty-seven German submarines were seen in line, accompanied by two destroyers. These latter were the Tibania and the Serra Venta, which accompanied the flotilla to take the submarine crews back to Germany. All submarines were on the surface, with their hatches open and their crews standing on deck.
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