File:Sea-hounds (1919) (14780889604).jpg

Identifier: seahounds00free (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
se to describe the call of a ship indistress—of a steamer that had been torpedoed. Butthe sails turned out to be friends in every case, while both of the ships reported sinking were too far awayfor us to be of any use to them. Early in the after-noon a suspiciously cruising craft, which provedpresently to be a friend, got a high-explosive shellunder her nose as a consequence of her deliberation in revealing that fact. The smartness with which themen tumbled to quarters, and the almost uncannyspeed with which the forecastle gun was served, boded well for developments in case the real thing turnedup. Do you always fire a blank across their bows when you dont quite like the look of em ? I askedthe captain innocently, as he gazed dejectedly throughhis glass at certain unmistakable evidences provingthat he had been cheated of his quarry. Blank ! —indignation and half the look that sits on the faceof a terrier who discovers that he has cornered his own familys Tabby instead of the neighbours
Text Appearing After Image:
IMAGE: Ships that pass. Cheering a destroyer as she steams back to base after a manoeuvre well executed. Hunting 97 Tom—blank! Did 5^ou ever see a blank* X-point-X that threw up a spout as high as a masthead, and all black with smoke ? That was theworst punisher we have in our lockers; and, what smore, it was meant to be a hit. And the next onewould have been, he added. You cant afford towaste any time where five or ten seconds may make all the difference between bagging and losing a Hun. But how about bagging something that isnt aHun? I protested. I told you, I think, that I had arranged to go out next week on patrol in one of the American submarines; but after what Ive just seen The burden of proof is up to the craft under suspicion, cut in the captain, and they ought to have no trouble in supplying it if they have their wits about them. Then, with a grin, But if youre really going out on submarine patrol next week, why—Ill promise to look twice before turning loose one of those—those blanks. How he kept his word is another story. It was abou

Note About Images