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Title: The seafarers
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Corbett-Smith, Arthur, 1879-
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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wly— it ud take a damned sightcleverer man than Christopher Columbus to discoverAmerica afterwards. So now back to England once again. In all this land of ours there is no spot thatis for ever England more hallowed by memories ofhome than is Dover. To the wanderer those fairwhite cliffs give Englands last farewell as he setsforth upon his journey, her radiant welcoming ashe returns. From our earliest history the Dover Straits andthe Narrow Seas have been the cockpit of Englandssea warfare. They have witnessed our victories,our defeats, and our humiliation. To tell the storyof Dover and the Kentish and Sussex shore isalmost to tell the story of England. Now once again has the Moving Finger written.Nor may we, if we would, blot out a single word ofthe writing ; for the tears of pride and of sorrow thatwe let fall for the gallant dead sleeping beneaththose seas they will but illumine in flaming gold thedear names of those our loved ones. For the story of the Dover Patrol tells how once
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VICE-ADMIRAL SIR ROGER KEYES CONVOY 167 again the mariners of England kept the NarrowSeas secure against an enemy. Tells, too, how ourhonourable and chivalrous foes of yesterday havebeen our comrades in arms to-day. How the fisher-folk of splendid Breton stock have fought side byside with their brothers of our southern and easternshores ; shared with them the toil and the danger,reaped with them the harvest of fame and honour. Gentlemen of the Royal Navy, I pray you standaside for the moment! Yours, I grant you, hasbeen the direction of the operations. Yours thegallant Commanders—Rear-Admiral Sir Horace Hood,Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, Vice-Admiral SirRoger Keyes. Yours the submarines, the destroyers,but—what of the rest ? I know you for the goodsportsmen you are ; you will not grudge the poortribute one may pay to, shall I say, the rank andfile? For it was the deep-sea fishermen and the lands-men of the sea-breed, the third and fourth estatesof the British Navy, who kept the

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