A NAVAL STORY OF THE GREAT WAR
Reading edition
BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN AUTHOR OF "A SUB. OF THE R.N.R." "THE DREADNOUGHT OF THE AIR" ETC.
S.W. PARTRIDGE & CO. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1
MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN First published December 1916
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. H.M.S. "POMPEY"
II. THE RESULT OF THE LEADING STOKER'S CURIOSITY
III. GREENWOOD SENIOR'S DISCOVERY
IV. THE SECRET PETROL-DEPÔT
V. EXPLANATIONS
VI. AN EXCELLENT NIGHT'S WORK
VII. THE DAY FOLLOWING
VIII. SPY AND SUPER-SPY
IX. AN ADVENTURE ON THE HILLS
X. THE FOILED RAID
XI. ONE ZEPPELIN THE LESS
XII. AN OCEAN DUEL
XIII. ADRIFT
XIV. A BREACH OF NEUTRALITY
XV. A PRISONER OF WAR
XVI. THE FIRST DAY OF CAPTIVITY
XVII. A DASH FOR LIBERTY
XVIII. THE DERELICT OBSERVATION BALLOON
XIX. THE DESERTED HOUSE
XX. TRESSIDAR SOLVES A MYSTERY
XXI. CHECKMATE
XXII. THE SHELL-BATTERED HOSPITAL
XXIII. AT AULDHAIG ONCE MORE
XXIV. A FIGHT TO A FINISH
XXV. IN THE MOMENT OF TRIUMPH
XXVI. THE HOME-COMING OF THE S.S. "MEROPE"
XXVII. A DAY ON DARTMOOR
XXVIII. —AND A NIGHT
XXIX. WHEN THE TRAWLERS SHOWED FIGHT
XXX. A NOVEL DUCK HUNT
XXXI. MONITORS IN ACTION
XXXII. THE "ANZAC'S" DAY
XXXIII. A SPLINTER OF SHELL
XXXIV. EXIT OBERFURST
XXXV. TRESSIDAR'S REWARD
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
Frontispiece
"SHE REELED HEAVILY WITH THE EFFECT OF A MORTAL BLOW"
"A MAELSTROM OF FOAM HID THE SPOT WHERE THE PERISCOPE HAD BEEN VISIBLE".
"THEY THREW UP THEIR ARMS AND YELLED FOR QUARTER"
WITH THE QUICK-FIRERS TRAINED UPON THE BULKY TARGET, NO. 445 APPROACHED WITHIN HAILING DISTANCE
AN OCEAN DUEL
"'IN WITH YOU, OLD MAN!' HE EXCLAIMED"
A BATTLE-CRUISER SQUADRON
"ON THE DECK WAS A GERMAN UNTER-LEUTNANT, BOUND HAND AND FOOT"