The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Lieut. R.A.F.

Author of "A Lively Bit of the Front" "Under the White Ensign" "Rounding Up the Raider" &c. &c.

Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED

LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

Printed in Great Britain

Contents

CHAP.

I. FLIRT'S INDISCRETION

II. AN ULTIMATUM

III. THE SUB'S STRATAGEM

IV. BOUND FOR THE BALTIC

V. THE STOWAWAY

VI. THE ZEPPELIN HUNT

VII. A DOUBLE BAG

VIII. "ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN"

IX. DRIFTING MINES

X. THE "HAVORNEN'S" WARNING

XI. CAUGHT IN THE NET

XII. "AWAY DIVING-PARTY!"

XIII. KAPITAN-LEUTNANT VON HOPPNER'S PROWESS

XIV. THE WAY OUT

XV. PICKING UP THE PILOT

XVI. THE BATTLE OF MOON SOUND

XVII. HIT

XVIII. PINNED DOWN

XIX. FORCED TO ASCEND

XX. UNDER RUSSIAN ESCORT

XXI. THE HOUSE IN BOBBINSKY PROSPEKT

XXII. WHEN THE LIGHT FAILED

XXIII. TRAPPED

XXIV. FORDYCE'S TWO VISITORS

XXV. "FLIRT, YOU'RE A BRICK!"

XXVI. A FRIEND IN NEED

XXVII. THE FATE OF KLOSTIVITCH

XXVIII. RESCUED

XXIX. THE CAPTURED CONVOY

XXX. A DUEL TO THE DEATH

XXXI. VON HOPPNER'S BOAST

XXXII. "TAKEN DOWN A PEG"

XXXIII. GOOD-BYE TO THE BALTIC

XXXIV. HOME AGAIN

Illustrations

ANOTHER AND ANOTHER SHELL SPED FROM THE SUBMARINE'S GUNS

Coloured frontispiece

THE TOO FAITHFUL FLIRT

AHEAD, ASTERN, ABOVE, AND BELOW, THE SHELLS BURST

IT WAS MINDIGGLE

"PASS UNDER MY LEE!"