"As I was crossing the compass platform [ to his Action Station in the Director Control Tower ], the captain hailed me, not with the usual rigmarole of'Enemy in sight, bearing etc, but with'There's the f * * * ing " Scheer "!
42.
In an unusually long engagement for a submarine and in a situation for which neither crew had been trained, Launders waited 45 minutes after first contact before going to action stations, waiting in vain for " U-864 " to surface and thus present an easier target.
43.
By that time the German invasion flotilla had reached the inner line of fortifications off Bergen, and was being engaged by the forts at Hellen . " Brand " was put on action stations and readied for torpedo attack from a position in the inlet Gravdalsviken.
44.
When the other ships were about 10 miles away, the Luftwaffe appeared expecting to find an invasion fleet, but only found the destroyer " Lookout " . " Lookout " went to action stations and put up an anti aircraft barrage and took violent evasive action.
45.
In connection with a large concentration of German forces in Praga as well as execrable state of armament of conspirators, which had become manifest during previous action stations, part of officers and soldiers of the sub-district put in question the use to take up fight in Praga.
46.
The term " Action Stations " was a battle condition in which a Royal Navy vessel manned all of its guns with gun crews, stood up damage control and emergency medical teams, and called the ship's senior officers to the quarterdeck in order to direct the ship in battle.
47.
Fired partly by his mother's stories of joy flights in World War II broke out two months later : " The second night we all slept on the hangar floor next to our aircraft . Imagine it : there was war over in Europe and here we were at action stations !"
48.
Such were his photographs and uniqueness, and the way that he used them, that in the opening chapters of his book " Action Stations 2 Wartime Military Airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands ", were a selection of control tower photos this was the first time this had been done in any book.
49.
During her second patrol after Operation Pedestal, " Lookout " encountered a merchant ship which was identified as, an Italian vessel of about 4, 000 tons . " Lookout " went to action stations but the vessel was found to have been abandoned and so a skeleton crew was put on board to examine her.
50.
The level of protection afforded to the crews in these two ships was found to be beneficial in wartime, where crews were often closed up at action stations for extended periods of time in appalling weather conditions, and the design although it was something of a dead end heavily influenced post-war escort designs.
