DASH IN ATLANTIC
HOME FLEET UNITS
ENEMY NOT SIGHTED
(Received February 14, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, February 13. Correspondents accompanied powerful units of the Home Fleet, including battleships, on a dash of 1000 miles out into the North Atlantic on a special mission which was so secret that only three persons in the fleet knew, the object when they sailed. The correspondents were not permitted to describe the mission beyond saying that it was completely successful. They did not sight the enemy in any form during three days and nights at sea, although they repeatedly overhauled ships which were believed to be enemy vessels, but turned out to be British auxiliary cruisers. The crews ate, and slept at their ' action stations the whole time. •• The farthest point of the sweep, was- . a • mysterious lighthouse behind which ' '- high' snow-clad: mountains, could Jb«; - l^seeu. ' .. - r> .■• v.,i-'"'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 7
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143DASH IN ATLANTIC Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 7
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