The Heroic Record of the British Navy: A Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918

At the outbreak of war, Germany was represented in the Mediterranean by two vessels, the _Goeben_ and _Breslau_, more likely, perhaps, to become historical than any two that she...

These were the stars that they followed. Eastward returning, The stars of the old sailors Steadily burning. Fearlessness, loyalty, liberty, These and none others Shone in the ey...

Manifold as were the duties, and various as was the composition of the Dover Patrol, it was in the sealing of Zeebrugge and Ostend--among the last naval operations of the war--t...

Situated off the southeast coast of South America the group of islands, known as the Falklands, had definitely belonged to Great Britain since 1833. It consisted of about a hund...

man for himself.' I left the turret through the hatch on the top and found the ship was lying on her side. She was broken amidship, with the stern and bows both sticking out of...

Roman, Phoenician, Saxon, Dane, From these white shores turned not again. Save to the sea that bore them hence, For their delight or their defense, Judgment, persuasion, daring,...

The kings and the presidents go their ways, Their armies march behind them, But where would they be, Said the man from the sea, Without us Jacks to mind them?

In his speech of August 3d in the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey told his listeners that we had incurred no obligations to help France either by land or sea. In view not less...

The bombardment of Durazzo, mentioned in the last chapter, took place on October 2, 1918, and was the last offensive operation, on a large scale, undertaken by the Allied navies...

Before us rocked the minefields, Behind us flew the planes. The swift destroyers chased us Down the long sea lanes, The stealthy currents fought us, And, everywhere we went, Cre...

"Our trawlers mined the fairway. Our cruisers spread the bait, We shelled the Briton's seaside towns To lure him to his fate, We set the trap twice over. We left him with his de...

Inevitably the chief interest of the naval story clusters about the waters of the North Sea; and most of its dramatic moments have had this ocean for their setting. But, behind...

We have seen Admiral Cradock, fighting against odds, sunk in the Southern Pacific; Admiral Sturdee victorious in the battle of the Falkland Islands; Admiral Beatty chasing the G...