Sea Scouts Abroad: Further Adventures of the "Olivette"

This was the reassuring message that Mr. Armitage read. It had a great effect upon the hitherto tired, jaded, and dispirited Sea Scouts. Smiles came back to their bronzed featur...

They were two days in the French capital, and enjoyed every minute of the time. Their programme was an ambitious one, carried out at high pressure. So much so that the Sea Scout...

"To-morrow the tide serves," declared Patrol Leader Peter Stratton, stepping back a few paces in order to admire the joint handiwork of the 1st Milford Sea Scouts. "We'll launch...

Four of the Sea Scouts manned the dinghy and pushed off to the _Olivette_. The bow-rope was cast off from the shore and made fast through the dinghy's stern ring-bolt to the tra...

"Ah, that's good!" he exclaimed. "The 5th Weymouth Scouts on board the _Olivette_. Bruin begging--that's capital. Lulworth Cove--rather a large subject for so small a film, Alan...

The Troop members of the junior school of Weymouth College had had a long day's scouting. The Midsummer Term exams were over, and, as two clear days remained before that long-an...

In spite of the delay occasioned by the rescue of the crew of the hydro-glisseur, the _Olivette's_ run up to Rouen was accomplished by four o'clock in the afternoon. The histori...

It was six o'clock when the "liberty men" landed on the quay at Duclair. Roche, Flemming, and Tenderfoot Rayburn, who had volunteered to remain on board as watch-keepers, went o...

The French Scouts remained on board for another half-hour. They inspected and were duly impressed by the _Olivette_ and her equipment; they exchanged confidences with their brot...

It was easy to say "Keep in a straight line", but the accomplishment was difficult. Not only was the ground thickly covered with trees--it was hilly, and in places rugged. The r...

The _Olivette_, although she had a light mast stepped in a tabernacle for'ard, did not carry sail, relying solely upon her excellent engine. That the motor had stopped was in no...

The _Olivette_ saved her tide into the outer basin of Le Havre. She was just in time to enter the lock gates of the Bassin de l'Eure before they were closed on the falling tide....

"That reminds me," said Flemming, who also prided himself upon a knowledge of the French language. "I was wondering what to say as an exclamation when we are talking to these Sc...

It was well above the approach-channel to the quays, and consequently, out of the way of traffic, except for a few yachts and fishing-boats and an occasional barge engaged in ca...

Sunrise--a grey sky and a high dawn; long drab-coloured rollers driven on by the steady westerly wind; away to the south'ard a line of dark-grey cliffs, hardly distinguishable f...

Peter Stratton carried out his instructions to the letter. Upon rounding the Needles he steered in the direction of St. Catherine's, keeping a mile and a half from shore, in ord...

It was one of those ideal days for cruising under power. The sea was smooth, visibility good, with the sun shining brightly overhead. The rugged coast, never more than a mile aw...

As it was only a distance of thirty-five kilometres, or, roughly, 23 miles, Mr. Armitage decided to bring up on moorings off Duclair until the tide changed. This would enable th...

The moment Roche put the engine in gear the _Olivette_ "squatted", as she always did when under way; in other words, her bows rose and her stern dipped correspondingly. The resu...

Although all on board were by this time well acquainted with the Isle of Wight coast, none of the "watch below" had any inclination to "turn in". The fact that they were actuall...