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A.A. guns Admiral Lutjens Admiralty air vice-marshal announced Ark Royal Atlantic attack battleship began binoculars Brest bridge British C. S. FORESTER captain chart chart-room chief of staff cloud Commander convoy course and speed cruiser dark deck Denmark Strait destroyers eyes fight fire Fleet Air Arm flying Force H forward Führer German going grey Grimstad Fiord hand Hard a-port head heard heaving Home Fleet Hood Hood's HORNBLOWER ICELAND FAEROES intercept King George ladies and gentlemen look-outs looked loud-speaker Lutjens and Lindemann magnetic pistols miles minutes navigating officer Nobby operations-room pilot planes Prince of Wales rear-admiral roar Rodney round salvo Scapa Scapa Flow Scharnhorst Sheffield shell ring ship ship's company sight signal from Suffolk smoke someone splashes starboard supernumerary officers Swordfish swung telephone There's tomorrow torpedoes turned turret twenty-seven knots victory voice pipe War-Room watch What's wind wireless young officer