Category: Adventure
Copyright, 1918, by The Atlantic Monthly Company Copyright, 1918, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1918, by The North American Review Pub. Co, Copyright, 1918, by The American National Red Cross Copyright, 1918, by The Outlook Company
Meanwhile, some seventy feet below, the Z3 manoeuvred, killing time. The phonograph had been hushed, and every man was ready at his post. The prospect of a go with the enemy had...
8. Part 8The day was a pleasant one, the sun was shining clear and a fresh salty breeze was blowing down the estuary. The officers, however, shook their heads, talked of "low visibility,...
3. Part 3The crowd gathered round Captain John who had established contact (this is military term quite out of place in a work on the Navy) with the eagerly sought, horribly elusive German.
5. Part 5On every vessel in the Navy there is a phonograph, and on some destroyers there are two phonographs, one for the officers, and one for the men. The motion of the destroyer rarel...
4. Part 4The destroyer is the capital weapon against the submarine. She can out-race a sub, can fight him with guns, torpedoes, or depth charges; she can send him bubbling to the bottom...
9. Part 9After I had been to visit several of the bases, I returned to London, and called at the Navy headquarters. A young officer of the admiral's staff who was always ready and willin...
1. Part 1Copyright, 1918, by The Atlantic Monthly Company Copyright, 1918, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1918, by The North American Review Pub. Co, Copyright, 1918, by The...
10. Part 10Presently a bosun entered. A man somewhere in the thirties, brisk and athletic. One could see him counting the assembled sailors as he came, the numbers forming on his soundless...
6. Part 6The thing had become visible in an instant. It could be seen as a rushing white streak in the dark water, and was coming towards the destroyer with the speed of an express train...
7. Part 7To begin with the Briton is, on the average, an older man than our bluejacket. British Jack has not gone into the Royal Navy "for the fun of it" or "to see the world," as our po...
11. Part 11The _Snowdon_, escorted by her tiny guard, ran down the coast, entered the Thames estuary, passed the barriers, and finally resigned herself to the charge of a tug. Late in the...