Old-type destroyers prowl the waters off Dover
to “Seek Out, Engage and Destroy” –
motto of the Royal Navy.
Since the fall of France they and their sister ships have
helped to escort a thousand convoys through the Strait.
In the Strait of Dover a launch
takes aboard a downed airman saved by a rescue buoy.
Steel chambers like the one at right are anchored at intervals
in the English Channel. In their cabins parachuting fliers
find provisions, medical supplies, and radio sending sets.
The ramp is for exhausted swimmers. A depth charge for U-boats
is carried by the rescue launch.
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