“WARSHIP WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022@17:53-WARSHIP WRECKS OF The Battle for The Pacific/1941-1945: This is a VERY, VERY, INTERESTING BLOG, and there is MUCH MORE OTHER PROFILES, CONCERNING W.W.II/1939-1945 WARSHIPS, IF YOU FOLLOW THIS BLOG AND ITS ADDITIONS!!!” “CONCERNING ALL THESE ALLIED WARSHIPS, and THEIR CASUALTIES -THAT WERE CONSIDERED SUNK, and/or WRECKS; THESE FOLLOWING POEMS ARE DEDICATED TO THE ALLIED HEROES-MEN…WHOM ARE R.I.P., IN/ON THEIR WARSHIP, and/or ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, ON THE HIGH SEAS”…. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, a humble and a contrite heart; Lord God of Hosts be with us yet, LEST WE FORGET, LEST WE FORGET!!! At the going down of the SUN, and in the MORNING; WE WILL REMEMBER THEM, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM!!! Still TRUE to the IDEALS, WHEN as THEY WERE YOUNG MEN, THEY SAILED to MEET the FOE AGAIN; THEIR NAMES ENROLLED in HONOUR’S COURT, THEY ARE RIDING ANCHOR; ON THE HIGH SEAS, at an ALLIED, and/or IN HOME PORT!!! “You ALL ARE NOT FORGOTTEN, Thank you for OUR FREEDOMS/1945-2022; Yours Aye-WITH CONSIDERATION-GRATITUDE-LOVE-RESPECT-UNDERSTANDING…Brian CANUCK Murza…(Killick Vison-Alias), W.W.II Naval Researcher-Published Author, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.”
1.5 SINKING
I found dodging the torpedoes quite interesting and entertaining until in the end they started to come from all directions and they were too much for me’ Captain Tennant (Brooke 1982 p113)
The attack and subsequent five torpedo strikes had taken less than five minutes. As Captain Tennant gave the order to abandon ship, the old battlecruiser was still moving at about 5-6 knots, although her portside list was rapidly increasing towards thirty degrees. The crew did not panic, remaining at their action stations until the word was given, and one, eighteen year old Australian Ian Davies, personified the expression ‘sticking to your guns’ as he still manned his post despite orders to abandon ship, firing his 20mm Ooerlikon even as the water was lapping at his feet and cursing at anyone who got in the way of his gun-sights. He was to go down with the Repulse.
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