With Beatty off Jutland: A Romance of the Great Sea Fight

"'Can you spare us any torpedoes?' shouted Sefton" . . . _Frontispiece_ "'We surrender make.... We haf a leak sprung'" "Without hesitation Sefton made a flying leap over the gua...

Viewed from the fore-bridge of H.M. torpedo-boat destroyer _Calder_, there was little in the outlook to suggest that a state of war had existed for twenty months. The same short...

A cable's length on the port beam the _Carse o' Gowrie_ was backing gently astern in order to close with her consort. The _Dimpled Lassie_ was pitching sluggishly. Way had been...

"No such luck," protested Sefton, until, reading the serious look in the medical officer's eyes, and now conscious of a commotion on deck as the ship's company went to action st...

Quickly the news of the captured submarine's former activities was flash-signalled to the _Calder_, and with the least possible delay the information was transmitted by wireless...

The tide was now well on the flood. It wanted about a couple of hours to high water, and, since the falling glass and clear visibility of distant objects betokened the approach...

The ship upon which Sefton found himself as an unauthorized supernumerary was an armoured cruiser of 13,550 tons, built and completed at Pembroke nine years previously. She was...

Leaving Sub-lieutenant Jack Sefton on his elevated perch in the fire-control station, it will be necessary to follow the fortunes of the vessel from which he had in theory deser...

Of the mad, desperate, and, above all, glorious race into the gates of a maritime hell Crosthwaite saw but little beyond his immediate front. Since the British destroyers were u...

"Something big," replied the other, wiping a thin layer of coal dust and particles of burnt cordite from the lenses of his binoculars. "With this rotten mist hanging around, one...

Almost as in a dream Sefton realized that he was still alive. His hearing was practically done for, owing to the terrific detonation of the guns. His eyes were red and smarting...

With her stock of torpedoes replenished and certain defects made good, H.M.T.B.D. _Calder_ sheered off from her parent ship, and, increasing speed to 21 knots, shaped a course t...

Just before midnight two columns of destroyers in line ahead slipped away in the darkness, the course being N. 42 deg. E. Without showing so much as a glimmer of light, with the...

By this time the firing had ceased, while, the search-lights of the German war-ships having been screened, intense darkness brooded over the scene. The sea was rising rapidly, a...

With the pumps ejecting copious streams of water the damaged _Calder_ held gamely on her way, daylight adding to the horrors of the aftermath of battle. The hull echoed to the c...

"Now if I had my chauffeur here----" began the General, then, realizing that his duty to his country had necessitated the release of the man for military service, he held his pe...

Near the summit of Blackstone Edge, an unfrequented road running at a height of between 1200 and 1300 feet over the serrated Pennine Hills, five men were lying upon the short, d...

Throughout the long-drawn night the survivors of the _Calder's_ crew battled manfully against increasing difficulties in their efforts to save the destroyer from foundering. The...

The _Calder_, safe in dock, was handed over to the care of the shipyard authorities. At high pressure, the task of getting her ready for sea once more would occupy the best part...

Two months had elapsed since the eventful encounter on Blackstone Edge. August was well advanced, bringing with it a spell of gloriously fine weather; and, since the young peopl...

For a few seconds the optics of the submerged craft remained trained upon the isolated smack. Although the submarine was forging slowly ahead, the periscopes rose no higher out...

During the first hour of their captivity Jack Sefton and his brother were left alone, locked in a narrow, ill-lighted compartment in the after part of the submarine. Overhead th...

A succession of long-drawn hoarse cheering aroused both Seftons from their light sleep. Leslie's outstretched hands came in contact with his brother's face, for, in the utter da...

"There's a bit of a dust-up on board, sir," reported Sub-lieutenant Devereux of Submarine E--, as the British craft steadily overhauled the _Kondor_, whose engines had already b...