The Motor Boys Under the Sea; or, From Airship to Submarine

Three boys, who were sailing over the waters of Massachusetts Bay in a large air craft, had seen a strange sight as they looked down through the glass floor of the cabin of thei...

“We’re doing all we can,” responded the tall youth in tense tones. In all the excitement he remained calmer than did his chums, and calmness was a necessary virtue in this emerg...

“They must have their machinery under pretty good control, and be able to work it quickly,” came from Bob. “Why, that old gentleman wasn’t down inside that hatch more than a qua...

Fortunately for our heroes the _Comet_ was a staunch craft, even though built to navigate the air, and, like others of her kind, light in construction. But the motorship had pas...

“Well, boys, you seem to think there is something strange in my new quest,” remarked Professor Snodgrass, looking from one to the other of the motor boys. “Don’t you care to go...

“No, I was speaking about our motor boat!” cried Bob. “Sud Snuffles just yelled at me, as he rushed past our house, that she had chafed through the mooring ropes and was going d...

“I only wish there was,” went on the stout lad. “Not that I want any other vessel to be wrecked, either. But the dispatch says plainly that the _Hassen_ has gone down. It’s a pe...

The above colloquy took place between Jerry, Ned and Bob in the big shed that housed the motorship _Comet_, a few hours after their decision to start in their air craft in searc...

“We’ve got good weather, anyhow,” remarked Ned, as he and his chums stood in the pilot house of the _Comet_, which Jerry was guiding on her aerial way. “It couldn’t be better.”

Down shot the _Comet_, as Jerry shifted the depression rudder. Down, down, closer and closer to the surface of the ocean, where rolling sluggishly, showing her water-logged cond...

For a moment the boys did not know what to do--or what to say. Jerry confessed, afterward, that he feared the lone sailor might be a lunatic--made mad by his sufferings in the s...

“As it is it’s going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack,” commented Bob. “I don’t believe we’ll ever find them. Or, if we do, it will be--too late!”

“I can make out the name painted on the bows,” replied the stout youth, who was peering through a powerful telescope. “I can see the word ‘_Hassen_’ as plainly as anything.”

The excitement caused by Jerry’s announcement can easily be imagined; and it was of several sorts. To himself the recognition of the strange craft that seemed so fated to be lin...

“Oh, I can easily catch up to them, and pass them; but that’s just the trouble, I don’t want to do that,” replied the tall lad. “If we get beyond them we’d have to turn, and the...

Jerry, whom the shock of the lightning bolt had knocked to one side, jumped for the lever of the elevating rudder, hoping, if nothing else could be done, to cause the _Comet_ to...

For a moment Jerry hesitated, but for a moment only. He realized that this was the only means of salvation for himself and his friends, and, though there was a suspicion that th...

At the sound of Bob’s voice the man and girl at the table started to their feet, and gazed in the direction of our friends. But because the latter were in comparative darkness,...

So many new and strange sensations had crowded on the motor boys in the last few days that it hardly needed the additional one of traveling in a submarine to thrill them. Nevert...

“Noddy Nixon,” went on the stout lad. “You know he started to follow us--he and Bill Berry. Wouldn’t they have had the surprise of their lives if they’d seen us get aboard this...

“That is my view,” he stated, in a low voice. “Either his imaginary wrongs, or his labors over this craft have turned his brain. He is certainly insane.” Ned indicated his acqui...

The presence of the whale, which was almost half the size of the _Sonderbaar_, so close to the submarine, and the menacing attitude of the great mammal, which easily kept pace w...

“If you go into the forward cabin you can look out through the side windows and watch him. Don’t turn on the light, or you can’t see as well. Dr. Klauss carries a submarine lamp...

“Now,” said Mr. Sheldon, a little later, when they had gone more into detail as to what they would do, “now, the question is, how shall we approach the crew--and when?”

The conspirators--they were really that, though it was a conspiracy to save their own lives--the conspirators, then, started half-guiltily as they beheld the form of the insane...

“We have had to subdue Dr. Klauss,” answered Jerry, who could manage to speak a little of the language of the Fatherland. “He has threatened to take us down to the bottom of the...

Jerry felt the horrid arm of the creature of the deep squeezing him tighter and tighter. He could also note that Professor Snodgrass was in terrible danger; but, so far, the lad...

“All right,” assented Bob’s uncle. They knew they would hardly need Professor Snodgrass’s assistance in the coming struggle, and it was better to have someone at hand to look af...

They all rubbed their eyes, scarcely believing what they saw. They had been traveling along beneath the dark ocean, unaware that they were approaching land, and they had suddenl...

Trembling, blinking in the strong light, which must have hurt their eyes after spending so much time in the dimness of their cabins, the two old Germans were again summoned to t...