The Achievement of the British Navy in the World-War

Had I the fabled herb That brought to life the dead, Whom would I dare disturb In his eternal bed? Great Grenville would I wake, And with glad tidings make The soul of mighty Dr...

Of speedy victory let no man doubt, Our worst work’s past, now we have found them out. Behold, their navy does at anchor lie, And they are ours, for now they cannot fly.

My name is Captain Kidd, Captain Kidd. My name is Captain Kidd, Captain Kidd. My name is Captain Kidd, And wickedly I did; God’s laws I did forbid, As I sailed.

They sink, they slink, they seek the boat, Grisly horns stuck through their skin, Ready to sink all things that float, These villain boxes shaped of tin. The fisher sees the dea...

Where shall the watchful sun, England, my England, Match the master-work you’ve done, England, my own? When shall he rejoice agen Such a breed of mighty men As come forward, one...

What of the mark? Ah! seek it not in England; A bold mark, an old mark Is waiting over-sea; Where the string harps in chorus, And the lion flag is o’er us, It is there our work...

Sailor, what of the debt we owe you? Day or night is the peril more? Who so dull that he fails to know you, Sleepless guard of our island shore? Safe the corn to the farmyard ta...

Others may use the ocean as their road, Only the English make it their abode; Our oaks secure, as if they there took root, We tread on billows with a steady foot.

From an account of the work of the British Navy in the war there must not be omitted some exposition of the gallant doings of the men of the Royal Naval Air Service. They have m...

In the foregoing chapter some reference was made to the campaign of the German raiding cruisers and armed liners against British and Allied commerce in the distant waters of the...