The young naval captain

In the first place, I wished to draw the attention of my young readers to the fact that naval science, as well as science in all other branches, is making wonderful strides, and...

"Oscar, I was never more serious in my life. The War Department has just sent the news to the office. The three new warships we are building must be completed without delay. The...

They saw how much it would be to their advantage to form part of our glorious Union. They saw that the United States was destined to become the one great world power.

"No, I want you to remain here and take charge of that model, which is in the storeroom at my boarding-house. If I telegraph to you, you come on with the model, at once."

The Secretary of the Navy was as good as his word. He was on hand five minutes before five, and Oscar arrived ten minutes earlier, accompanied by Andy Greggs, who had had the mo...

"Hold fast!" he cried, and as everybody clutched the railing or threw himself flat, the Holland fairly jerked forward, rising two feet higher than she had been lying, by the act...

"And leave the Holland XI.?" returned the inventor. "Never! I'll never desert her!" Oscar would no more have thought of leaving his treasure than would a young mother her child.

They expected to be re-enforced by German and French soldiers, and then a land attack was to be made in Florida, the troops marching across Cuba to Havana, and there taking tran...

It was easy to find the commodore's flagship, and they surprised the guard on deck by coming up directly at the side of the cruiser without anybody on board being aware that the...

"We will all go to heaven!" he heard the naval officer mutter. "All go to heaven--and that will be better than going home. Home! Ha! ha! So the admiral would not give me shore l...

"Hold on; I said the enemy was in Washington," interposed the young lieutenant. "I don't know how many of them are there, but enough to do a mean piece of work."

"You have done well," said the commodore, who received his report. "You beat them at their own game. But we must be very careful in the future, for there may be more fraudulent...

Some sixteen-inch guns had just been trained on the Iowa III. and the English gunners were about to set off the pieces when a deep rumble was heard, like an earthquake, and up w...

The United States now controlled all the land in the vicinity of the canal, and, as previously stated, thought seriously of taking these Central American States into our gloriou...

The death of Pargloss and the capture of his confederate had put a damper on other plans to tamper with the Central American Canal, and no trouble was experienced in finishing t...

The submarine boat had landed on the shore right side up, and Captain Oscar Pelham and Lieutenant Andy Greggs had just come to the little deck to view the situation.

Then the order came to sink the new Holland and they went down in the very midst of the whales, who had parted for the instant after the explosion and the sight of their headles...

"To bombard the Alaskan coast and try to retake the territory," said the Chinese captain, with a shrewd laugh. "The great Russian bear has always wanted Alaska back, since gold...

What was that? A tiny ray of light, shooting up from the dark green depths of the ocean. It was the Holland XI., moving silently and slowly to her old position under the stern....

It was now coming morning, and by the gray light of dawn they soon came upon the two Japanese and two Chinese ships getting ready to bombard San Francisco and Oakland.

The two Japanese and two Chinese warships had drawn as closely as possible to San Francisco and Oakland, and now they began to bombard those cities with all their power.

But the movement broke the spell so far as Oscar was concerned, and hardly knowing what he was doing the young captain hurled the dynamite shell at the water reptile.

Never had his heart so failed him as now. He was still weak from the shock, and to think that his two best friends might be lost to him forever was sufficient to make him collap...

With the turning off of the electricity it became safe to walk all over the submarine craft and both Oscar and the engineer, as well as Gilson, set to work to repair damages.

As expected, the course of the big Russian cruiser was for Cape Nome and soon she came to a stand about five miles from the sea front of the city.

"We are well rid of him," he said, after he and Andy had told their stories. Then he caught his chum's hand. "Andy, that is another debt I owe you."

"Captain Roquez, but not at your service," returned the Spaniard, with a baneful glance. "The Americanos defeated my country in Cuba, years ago, but they shall never defeat me a...

The Spanish captain drew his dagger, but before he could use it, Oscar brought his sword into use and the Spaniard received a nasty cut in the side. At the same time Andy was tr...

More than this, the Boers of South Africa had thrown in their fortunes with the United States and Cape Colony had followed. Four small South American republics had likewise decl...

He had seen the bed of the sea rising in the opposite direction and the movement came none too soon. A moment later the ground shot high up into the air, carrying huge rocks wit...

Jean Fevre proved to be a queer character. He was something of a French dude, and before the war had shone in social circles both in Paris and in Washington.