A Naval Venture: The War Story of an Armoured Cruiser

"Phew! I didn't like that," the Sub said, as the black mud dripped off his clothes. He put the engines "easy ahead", and the two Greeks pointed towards the toll-house, whining "...

"Where's me rifle? I 'ad it in me 'ands, and now I cawn't find 'e," the company idiot stammered helplessly; and the man whom the Orphan was helping chuckled: "'E's a fair treat,...

"It's about time we packed up too. There's only a little more big baggage, and perhaps a hundred and fifty men of the beach parties, military landing-officers, and your people t...

"Badly; they've been terribly cut up; haven't landed a man since nine this morning; something went wrong when they tried to get the lighters in position under her bows. Look thr...

Then the Lamp-post and his foretopmen, the Hun, the Orphan, and Rawlins, were sent off to clear the jibs and slack away the tops'l gaskets up aloft, and to learn where their pro...

During the days whilst the piers were being built, the weather was magnificent and the sea quite calm. It never blew at all until the 3rd May, when a breeze got up from the nort...

On the next night it blew hard from the north-east--away from the end of the Peninsula. Unfortunately for Bubbles, he had the job, that night, of towing a big Malta lighter, ful...

Captain Macfarlane, the few of his officers who had not yet gone off, and a few of his men, now collected at the end of No. 3 Pier, alongside which lay two steamboats and that w...

There are no words which will properly and soberly describe the admiration felt by the officers and men of the _Achates_ for that battalion. When the last boat had shoved off, a...

Stone and brick buildings for offices, workshops, and store-houses, a narrow-gauge railway with petrol-driven engines, electric generating stations, half a dozen substantial pie...

Left to himself again, Bubbles looked out across the blue waters of the Straits to the Asiatic shore and its high mountains fading away in the distance. The reddish ridge showin...

"Here, sir," and the Assistant Clerk patted the Orphan's stomach, and fled for safety to the ship's office, where he knew he would be safe from instant death, because the Fleet...

Then splashes began falling close to the _Triumph_ herself--short--short--far over her--right under her stern. "Hit under the fore bridge!" someone shouted. The "Action" bugle b...

Malta was left behind; the weather grew hot; white trousers were ordered to be worn, and were scarce--no one had expected to be sent to a warm climate--but those who had them sh...

After it, nothing exciting happened for a long time. Occasionally a few solitary rifle-shots rang out, and sometimes there were rapid bursts of heavy musketry and volleys. Those...

The Sub, Uncle Podger, and the Lamp-post lay and smoked, and watched the others carrying all the paraphernalia of tea from the two boats to a little place under a shady tree, cu...

Two destroyers came dashing down--a smother of black smoke and white foam--dashing right in among the shell splashes--or so it seemed to the nervous Assistant Clerk--and then be...

An hour after midnight the poor old _Goliath_ was struck by three torpedoes, and sank. She had anchored only that afternoon, up beyond Sedd-el-Bahr and opposite a promontory kno...

He gave them two men to carry their gear, and with "Kaiser Bill" under the Orphan's arm they stumbled along the pier in the dark till their feet scrunched into the sand on "W" b...

The movements of the transports, store ships, and auxiliaries of all kinds were controlled from the _Achates_, and to cope with this work additional officers had been attached t...

There was very heavy firing on shore on the extreme left that night--all through the night--and by the morning the soldiers had lost the ground they had gained the day before.

"Right in, my jumping Orphan! Rifle range! pistol range! biscuit range! The _Swiftsure's_ coming in to have a bang at "Peeping Tom" and his pal. My jumping O.! what a job!"

Next day they had the opportunity of deciding, for they were ordered to Suvla. The Lamp-post led the way through the "gate" in the submarine net, and waited outside for Rawlins...

Fortunately most people have not vivid imaginations, and to go into the battery during this time no one would have imagined that anything at all out of the way was happening. Th...

The Orphan's wound gave a great deal of trouble, and for the next fortnight--a "precious" long fortnight--he remained in his bunk. The Honourable Mess looked after him, and kept...

On the 12th May--a most perfect day it was--the three snotties were sitting outside their tent after lunch, smoking cigarettes, and watching an aeroplane, circling gracefully ab...

Presently some of those remaining guns began rumbling over the ridge to the beach, and their teams went round to No. 3 Pier, or cantered back over the ridge, with a jangle of ha...

In this book I have endeavoured to write a gun-room tale which will give a general impression of the part played by the Royal Navy during the Dardanelles operations, and of gun-...

They were full of noisy humour, these Turks; but what did jar on their nerves was the sight of a battleship or cruiser coaling. They objected most strongly, and always burst shr...

Silence, or comparative silence, having been obtained, Uncle Podger gravely read, from a long roll of paper, the horrible charge: "Whereas, Mr. Charles Stokes, commonly known as...