She sank five ships but is perhaps best remembered for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized cryptographic material from U-559.

John Mangles and the sailors, after their first surprise, would have seized Ben Joyce; but the bold convict had already disappeared and rejoined his gang scattered among the gum-trees.

The sailor seized him by the arm and dragged him roughly to the foot of the companion.

However, in April, the Tampico incident brought her to the shores of Mexico, when American sailors and Marines went ashore at Veracruz and seized the customs house on the 21st.

The sailors also seized molasses and wool.

But, by the form of the hull, by certain details which a sailor seizes at the first glance, Captain Hull had, indeed, discovered that this ship was of American construction.

Captain de Costa then had his soldiers and sailors seize Drian-Ramaka when he showed up with his father at Ranofotsy bay and rowed him out to their ship.

"I want him alive," he shouted as Gus and the second sailor seized the wounded man.

At these words the two sailors seized the king end hoisted him on to their shoulders, and carried him into the sea; in another moment he was on board.

A sailor always seizes a rope's end, but this is sliced short off with the cold steel.