The Radio Boys with the Iceberg Patrol; Or, Making safe the ocean lanes

“Say, fellows, whom do you think I got a letter from?” cried Bob Layton, as he ran out of his front gate to meet a group of boys who were coming down the street.

“I’m in luck to find you all together,” he said genially, as he resumed his seat. “Though I’m going to call personally at each of your homes,” he added. “I’ve just been telling...

“Anyway,” Jimmy hinted darkly, “I haven’t eaten all the doughnuts that I brought on deck. Somebody swiped two of them from my pocket. I’m not mentioning any names, but you fello...

The boys bombarded Doctor Dale with eager questions, but the doctor was adamant and reiterated his suggestion that they should remove the marks of battle. This was considerable...

The big berg towered up fully eighty feet into the air, and from a distance its long outline resembled that of a city, with graceful church spires shooting up here and there. In...

It would be foolish to think that the Radio Boys did not share in the general alarm. They knew that the vessel was badly damaged, and with almost every minute that passed they c...

Bob rushed to the window and threw it open. The rain blew in fiercely, but he did not mind that as he lifted his face upward and scanned the skies.

They reached the shattered fence and peered over into the gully. The sides were steep, and the car had fallen a distance of thirty feet. It had rolled over and over, and now lay...

The boys were running at full speed, but the deck was slippery with ice, and again and again they almost lost their footing. It seemed to them as if they were in a nightmare.

“Mr. Porter,” he continued, turning to an ensign who stood near by, “take these people into the engine room and let them get thoroughly dried out. Then give them a good hot meal...

“I’m all right,” answered Joe. “But I never want to have such a close call as I had on that berg. If you hadn’t got to me just as you did, I’d have gone up with the berg.”

But they were disappointed. Before a single note could come floating in through the horn, the slight sibilant sound of the apparatus ceased abruptly. The set had suddenly “gone...

Why the Radio Boys knew that this man had spoken the words that had made them wonder at his calmness, they could not have told. But they had no doubt of the fact.

“We’ll stand by for a little while,” he concluded, as he turned toward the wireless room. “I’ll get in communication by radio with the Department in Washington and send them the...

“Looks to me as though she were abandoned,” he said, at last, lowering the glasses. “No sign of life about her, and she’s wallowing in the trough of the sea. See what you make o...

The shouts of the Radio Boys were echoed by cries from other throats, for several of the officers and many of the crew of the _Meteor_ had been watching the oncoming steamer.

Bob sprang to the floor. He was joined immediately by Joe, who shared the stateroom with him. As they hastily threw on a few articles of clothing, they could hear shouts and cri...

But the sight of a crushed-in roof that they half-expected to see was spared them. It was intact, but the glass of the skylight had been shivered, and across the open sash lay a...

The captain recognized the Radio Boys at once, and he sprang quickly to his feet, his face quite as full of surprise and delight at the unexpected meeting as their own.

“I had forgotten that that’s where you came from,” said Johnson. “But you mustn’t take it too hard. The message didn’t say there was any actual loss of life. A fire isn’t like a...

“Just what I say,” repeated Johnson. “My set goes practically dead while the aurora borealis is getting in its work. Can’t send, can’t receive. When that begins to flood the sky...

Moving along majestically and slowly were scores of icebergs, their icy pinnacles catching the rays of the sun and throwing them back in a thousand prismatic lights. They were o...

“That explains the tramping I heard last night,” said Joe. “I remember being waked up two or three times. Once I was tempted to get up to see what the matter was, but I dropped...

Loud orders sounded on the deck and there was a rush of many feet as the men sprang to obey. But with all the din, there was no panic or confusion. It was a Government ship, man...

The center of interest for the boys on board the _Meteor_ was indeed the wireless cabin, where they were prime favorites. The ship was equipped with a powerful sending and recei...