THE SPLINTER FLEET
TALES OF SUBMARINE CHASERS AMERICAN MOTOR BOATS IN THE WAR On a bitterly cold day in January, 1918, 30 tiny motor boats left the sheltered coasts of America and plunged fussily into the rolling swell of the Atlantic Watchers on the shore, who innocently identified the craft as units of a fishing fleet setting out for the cod banks would have been astonished had they observed, an hour later, the little squadron effect a rendezvous with a British cruiser and, like chickens scampering after the mother hen. set
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Evening Star, Issue 23292, 14 June 1939, Page 12
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91THE SPLINTER FLEET Evening Star, Issue 23292, 14 June 1939, Page 12
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