THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE ICEBERG PATROL

THEY LOOKED IN WONDER AT THE FLEET OF ICEBERGS.

THE RADIO BOYS SERIES

(Trademark Registered)

THE RADIO BOYS WITH

THE ICEBERG PATROL

OR

MAKING SAFE THE OCEAN LANES

BY

ALLEN CHAPMAN

AUTHOR OF

THE RADIO BOYS’ FIRST WIRELESS

THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE FOREST RANGERS

RALPH OF THE ROUNDHOUSE

RALPH, THE TRAIN DISPATCHER, ETC.

WITH FOREWORD BY

JACK BINNS

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

BOOKS FOR BOYS

By Allen Chapman

12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.

THE RADIO BOYS SERIES

(Trademark Registered)

THE RADIO BOYS’ FIRST WIRELESS

Or Winning the Ferberton Prize

THE RADIO BOYS AT OCEAN POINT

Or The Message that Saved the Ship

THE RADIO BOYS AT THE SENDING STATION

Or Making Good in the Wireless Room

THE RADIO BOYS AT MOUNTAIN PASS

Or The Midnight Call for Assistance

THE RADIO BOYS TRAILING A VOICE

Or Solving a Wireless Mystery

THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE FOREST RANGERS

Or The Great Fire on Spruce Mountain

THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE ICEBERG PATROL

Or Making Safe the Ocean Lanes

THE RAILROAD SERIES

RALPH OF THE ROUNDHOUSE

Or Bound to Become a Railroad Man

RALPH IN THE SWITCH TOWER

Or Clearing the Track

RALPH ON THE ENGINE

Or The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail

RALPH ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS

Or The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer

RALPH, THE TRAIN DISPATCHER

Or The Mystery of the Pay Car

RALPH ON THE ARMY TRAIN

Or The Young Railroader’s Most Daring Exploit

RALPH ON THE MIDNIGHT FLYER

Or The Wreck at Shadow Valley

RALPH AND THE MISSING MAIL POUCH

Or The Stolen Government Bonds

GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, New York

Copyright, 1924, by

GROSSET & DUNLAP

The Radio Boys with the Iceberg Patrol

FOREWORD

By Jack Binns

All of the wondrous possibilities of radio are covered in this thrilling tale which deals with the latest adventures of The Radio Boys. It is a story well told, particularly in connection with the description of the collision at sea which precipitated the experience of the boys in the field of ice.

Of all the uses to which radio has been put, there is none more important than that in conjunction with the annual ice patrol in the steamship lanes of the Atlantic. Night and day the vessels from the various civilized nations engaged in this work vie with each other in devotion to duty in order that their efforts will save lives and property from danger on the high seas. Their sole medium of warning is the modern wonder of the world—radio.

The escapades of the boys in this book are extremely thrilling, but not particularly more so than is actually possible in every day life upon the seven seas.

Its appearance is extremely appropriate, because it is coincident with the announcement that the Coast Guard cutters, Tampa and Modoc, are now under orders to proceed to the region east of Newfoundland’s rugged shores where the ice from Greenland is swept down upon the frigid Labrador current across the steamship lanes to annihilation in the warmer southern waters. For the next three months these two vessels will go through the experiences detailed in “The Radio Boys with the Iceberg Patrol.”

The history of this patrol dates from the disaster which overtook the giant liner Titanic in April 1912, when that ill-fated ship struck the submerged ledge of an iceberg in mid-ocean on her maiden voyage. The gaping wound in her side was so large that she sank within thirty-five minutes after striking the iceberg, and more than 1,500 of her passengers and crew were drowned.

As a result of this appalling disaster a conference was called at which representatives of all maritime nations participated in London, and there the rules for this iceberg patrol were agreed upon. Every year from March until the end of July these vessels are engaged in their humane work, and since that fateful day in 1912, hundreds of steamships, large and small, have been saved from a similar fate by the timely warnings of Radio.

Jack Binns

CONTENTS

I.The Cry for Help

II.A Narrow Escape

III.The Naval Captain

IV.The Iceberg Patrol

V.Buffeted by the Gale

VI.Tuning In

VII.Thrashing the Bullies

VIII.A Crash in the Darkness

IX.A Night of Uncertainty

X.Snatched from the Sea

XI.An Unexpected Meeting

XII.Bound for the Ocean Lanes

XIII.The Derelict

XIV.Blown to Bits

XV.Consternation

XVI.The Radio Warning

XVII.Rending the Giant Berg Asunder

XVIII.A Glorious Panorama

XIX.Wireless Wonders

XX.In Stately Procession

XXI.By a Hair’s-breadth

XXII.Startling News

XXIII.In Deadly Peril

XXIV.Trapped

XXV.In the Nick of Time

THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE ICEBERG PATROL