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Simultaneously, I recognized it for the ancient Egyptian god Set, or Seth, the Destroyer of Souls.

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Now let us look at these destroyers in another scene.

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The desire of the Anti-Submarine Division to obtain destroyers for offensive use in hunting flotillas in the North Sea and English Channel led to continual requests being made to me to provide vessels for the purpose.

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When the Scandinavian convoy was started in April, 1917, one flotilla leader and six destroyers from the Grand Fleet were used for its protection; other vessels in northern waters also depended on Grand Fleet destroyers for protection.

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The destroyers on the East Coast and in the Portsmouth Command were already inadequate to afford proper protection to the trade and the cross-Channel communications, as evidenced by our losses.

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During the greater part of the year 1917, however, it was only possible to supply destroyers with a small number of depth charges, which was their principal anti-submarine weapon; as it became feasible to increase largely the supply of these charges to destroyers, so the violence of the attack on the submarines increased, and their losses became heavier.

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BRITISH AVENGE AMPHION'S LOSS Capt. Cecil H. Fox, who was in command of the British cruiser Amphion when she was destroyed by a German mine early in the war, had his revenge on October 17, when, in command of the cruiser Undaunted, he sank four German torpedo boat destroyers off the coast of Holland.

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Yet in all the Northland he was the greatest destroyer of their kindan even greater destroyer than man.

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The price paid by the force for this success was the loss of four destroyers by mines, and one by collision, and the damage of three destroyers by mine or torpedo, and of five destroyers and one light cruiser by collision.

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We're in the danger zone now, with destroyers around us and a cruiser ahead.

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One broadside would have put a destroyer out of business as easily as a "Jack Johnson" does for a dug-out; and it would have made a cruiser of the same class as the one firing pretty groggythis not from any experience of being on a light cruiser or any desire to be on one when it receives such a salute.

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Admiral Calthorpe was assisted by French and Italian officers, and the Japanese Government, which had previously dispatched twelve destroyers to the Mediterranean to assist in the protection of trade, also gave to Admiral Calthorpe the control of these vessels.

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" Were all the commanders of destroyers up to his mark?

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There's a destroyer after us.' CHAPTER XIX IN THE NICK OF TIME

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From the bridge of a destroyer beyond the harbour entrance we saw it go.

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Why should he speak of 'our' destroyers, referring to those of the British, when he ought to have said the 'English' destroyers as a French officer would have done?

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