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By *A record-breaking phase of construction took place Sunday on the new Cooper River bridge as the bridge's signature feature, the cables, started cascading down from the towers *Kiawah tests aim to restore wetlands *Noted naturalist, Ray Mancke, makes case for allowing Hunting Island to erode *Spring forecast: Mild temps, packed hotels Battle of River Plate. P 2.
2. The German ship could be off the River Plate by PM on the 12th. of December, or in the AM of the next day. 3. Finally the Raider might make for the Falkland Islands, and be there by the 14th of December. But Commodore Harwood went for the most likely point, and chose the River Plate where he believed the pocket battleship would decide to steam, this point would hold the best chance of success as the greatest concentation of shipping would pass through that area. Then on the 3rd. of December, he ordered HMS Achilles ( a New Zealand manned ship ) commanded by Captain W. E. Parry RN, to leave the Rio area, and arrive and fuel off Montevideo by 0600 ( 6 AM ) on the 8th. of December. HMS Exeter under the command of Captain F. S. Bell RN, was to leave the Falklands for the River Plate, to arrive AM on the 9th. of December. HMS Ajax under the command of Captain C. H. C. Wood RN and Achilles were then to concentrate in position 35 degrees South, 50 degrees West at 1600 ( 4 PM ) on the 10th. of December. Exeter to join up with the two other cruisers by 0700 ( 7 AM ) on the 12th. The oiler Olynthus was ordered to stay at the sea rendezvous. Thus by 0700 ( 7AM ) on the 12th. of December all three cruisers as ordered were all together, and they steamed to the most congested shipping spot at 32 degrees South 47 degrees West, it was here that any Raider might achieve the greatest damage to British shipping passing through this focal position. Harwood now signalled his intentions to all three cruisers: By day, they would operate as two units, the 1st. Division, Ajax, with Achilles , and Exeter would be diverged. Forcing the Raider to split her armament, if she wished to engage both groups at the same time.
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