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Torpedoed en route he took up his new work with characteristic enthusiasm and made good.
From The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire by Yapp, Arthur Keysall
By and by, for perhaps the seventh time, came: This is the Destroyer Blank—Please Give Position, Speed, and Course of Torpedoed Ship.
From The U-boat hunters by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
Behind wi' the sowin', An' rent-day to meet, For first time o' knowin' John Buckham was beat; Torpedoed an' swimmin' An' fairly done in, When someone said, "Wimmin Would suit ye at Lynn."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
