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_A comparison of ancient and modern naval warfare is most interesting, and here, in the stories of the Battles of Trafalgar and the Bight of Heligoland, the comparison--nay, contrast--is particularly striking._
_A comparison of ancient and modern naval warfare is most interesting, and here, in the stories of the Battles of Trafalgar and the Bight of Heligoland, the comparison--nay, con...
2. Part 2The English _Neptune_ assailed the _Bucentaure_, and brought her main- and mizzen-masts down; then the _Leviathan_ came up, and at a range of about thirty yards gave the French...
3. Part 3The battle of January 24 was the outcome of a German attempt to raid the east coast of England, as had been done before--Yarmouth first, then the Hartlepools, Scarborough, and W...
4. Part 4Two hundred leagues west of the Canaries a ship’s mast was seen floating, and the frightened crews became more scared than ever; they took it for a portent of their own fate. Th...
5. Part 5But if he did no more pirating himself, he set fire to the buccaneers of Tortuga, who told themselves that what Pierre le Grand had done they could do. If they had but ships! Th...
6. Part 6As the governor refused him safe passage, Morgan, having divided the booty of the expedition, amounting to 250,000 pieces of eight and a large quantity of merchandise, turned hi...
7. Part 7Blackbeard, however, was but just beginning, as it were, and he turned his Guineaman into a formidable fighting ship, mounting forty guns in her, and giving her the new name of...
8. Part 8The pirates, lured on by the thought of the sugar cargo sped after the _Swallow_, drew near enough to fire their bow chasers, and then opened on the quarry. Up went the black fl...
9. Part 9Day after day he sailed amongst the islands, seeking water, but finding none; and all the time the supplies were running short. At last he resolved to go farther afield, and str...
10. Part 10It sounds like fiction, but it is solid fact, and those mariners took heart of courage: if some parts of the dream had come true, why not another? And so they lived on, as they...
11. Part 11“Never!” bellowed Drake. “For the honour of the Queen of England, I must have passage this way,” and discharged his pistol full at the captain. Then, with good Queen Bess’s name...
12. Part 12All around the ship the sea was a blazing mass, for the oil which had been pumped overboard had caught fire. The two lifeboats sped through the sea towards the flaming ship, but...
13. Part 13Instantly Manly’s thought flew to the agitation of Dillon when he suggested seeking the body, and he knew that there had been treachery. But why? Why should Dillon kill Harper,...
14. Part 14The Gulf of Tonquin, the island of Hainan, and the length of coast from that point to Macao, were--and are--what might be termed the hunting-ground of the Chinese pirates. Macao...
15. Part 15The incident showed Taffir how slender was the thread on which his life hung, and he knew that he would have to be careful, for if these men suspected that he was playing them f...
16. Part 16Immediately he realised what had happened, Loxley, as calm as though he were at practice, ordered the water-tight doors to be closed and the men to be piped to collision quarter...
17. Part 17The negroes, having satisfied themselves that they had accounted for all the crew with the exception of those in the maintop, whom they decided to deal with presently, ransacked...
18. Part 18The voyage out to the Polar Sea was uneventful, except that early in December a great storm arose, and called for good seamanship to keep the vessel going; and even then she was...
19. Part 19Five of them won. Buffeted against the rocks, clutching and loosing, they fought for handhold and foothold, and at last, scrambling over the slippery points, they managed to fig...
20. Part 20Something historical, however, must be allowed to intrude, because it had a great bearing upon smuggling; and that is, that prior to 1816 there were no systematic attempts made...
21. Part 21For the Australian cruiser _Sydney_ received an interrupted wireless message from the Cocos to the effect: “Strange warship ... off entrance,” and at once sped off at full steam...
22. Part 22When they were sure that the people were in bed the conspirators had rushed the tower, and, with cutlass and pistol, had fallen upon the sentries which Heitman always had there....
23. Part 23“‘Stop lowering 14!’ our crew shouted; and the crew of No. 14, now only twenty feet above, cried out the same. The distance to the top, however, was some seventy feet, and the c...