"SUICIDE FLOTILLA"
Quickly "following tne example set by the German naval chiefs, the British Admiralty is forming a "suicide flotilla" of forty-knot speed boats carrying torpedoes. Relying solely on their great* speed to avoid the enemy's guns, these speed boats, each carrying two torpedoes, will be driven close to their; targets. Notices posted in the fleet call for volunteers under thirty years of age, who must be "alert, selfreliant, and enthusiastic," to man these sixty-foot craft. Each boat will carry a lieutenant or sub-lieutenant, one petty officer, three seamen, one radio: man, and one engineer. Large, warships will carry a number'of these mosquito craft on the decks and, launch the.* when battle is imminent. .: -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1937, Page 15
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114"SUICIDE FLOTILLA" Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1937, Page 15
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