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Title: Sea-hounds
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome), b. 1878
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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falling astern, and breakdowns, and the chance of trickery, it was one continual round of worry from the time we left Base to our return. This time was no exception to the rule, even before the big smash. One of the Swedes âthere were Norwegian and Danish as well as Swedish ships in the convoy, but we called them all Swedes, *probably because it was shorter and easier to say than Scandinavianâwell, one of the Swedes shifted cargo along about dark of the i6th, with the result that the slower ships, and this included most of the convoy, lagged back, while several of the faster ones kept on. I dont know whether this was done by order, or whether it just happened. Anyhow, the Strongbow remained behind with the slower section,while the Mary Rose pushed on as an escort for thefaster. It was the first lotâthe main convoy âthat the raiders attacked first, but just what happened I did not see, for we had drawn a long way ahead of them in the course of the night. When I came up to stand my watch as anti-
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IMAGE: A British destroyer keeping watch on hostile shipping. - Against Odds 271 submarine lookout, on the after searchlight platform,at four in the morning of the 17th, I remember that it was cloudy and thick overhead, but with very fair visibility on the water. We were steaming along comfortably with two boilers, which gave us a big margin of speed over everything needed to cut our zigzags round the comparatively slow packets we were escorting. The sea was rough but almost dead astern, so that it made little troubleâforthe moment, that is. We had enough of it a little later. Along toward six oclock the visibility began toextend as it grew lighter, but there was no sign of the main convoy when, at exactly five-fifty, I sighted flashes of light fluttering along the northern horizon.Although my ears caught no sound but the throb ofthe engines and the churning of the screws, I hadno doubt they were from gun-fire, and reported themat once by voice-pipe to the Officer of the Watchââ

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