The spokesman also pointed out that Germany had also made use of Norwegian waters to perform acts of war against Britain and other states. On December 7, he stated, the British steamer Thomas Walton was torpedoed off Narvik, Norway, with the loss of sixteen lives, On December 1l, the Greek steamer Baroufalian was torpedoed off Folden, Norway. Four persons were killed. On December 13, the spokesman continued, the British ship Deptford was torpedoed only one mile off shore near Honningsvaajstadt, and 25 members of the crew are still missing. These ships, it was alleged, were torpedoed without warning all within the territorial waters of Norway.
The British destroyer Cossack, which rescued the prisoners is commanded by Captain P. 1. Vian. He served as a sub-lieutenant in the cruiser Argonaut and the destroyer Morning Star in the last war. In 1987, he was appointed to the Are-thus as Flag Captain.
Commander P. H. Hadow, of the destroyer Ivanhoe, was mentioned in despatches last' December when in command of the destroyer Foxhound.
H.M.S. Cossack is a recent type heavy destroyer with a displacement of 1,850 tons, carrying a main array ment of eight 4.7-inch guns in four twin mountings fore and aft. The Cossack is one of the Tribal Class destroyers, which are the only ships in the British Navy that have been equipped to fire all their guns at once in continuous broadsides. The weight of the 4.7-inch projectile is 50 pounds but the terrific rate of fire more than compensates for the light weight of the shell, The gunnery principle of these destroyers is smothering fire, the object, being to develop rapid fung under accurate gunnery control. The rate of fire has been time at 96 shots in less than two minutes, this rate being so fast that there were two full broadsides, 16 shells, in the air at the same time.—Reuter.
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