April, 1918
Reading edition
BY
PERCY F. WESTERMAN
Author of "Winning His Wings"
"With Beatty off Jutland"
"The Submarine Hunters"
&c. &c.
Illustrated by W. Edward Wigfull
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
Contents
CHAP.
I. BOUND NORTH
II. STRAFED
III. COUNT OTTO
IV. TORPEDOED
V. IN THE WHALER
VI. A PRISONER OF WAR
VII. M.-L. 4452
VIII. ON PATROL
IX. AT ZEEBRUGGE
X. PREPARATIONS
XI. THE LONE AIR-RAIDER
XII. ST. GEORGE'S EVE
XIII. THE ATTACK ON THE MOLE
XIV. THE NIGHT OF NIGHTS
XV. THE PASSING OF M.-L. 4452
XVI. THE RETURN FROM ZEEBRUGGE
XVII. "GOOD OLD 'VINDICTIVE'!"
XVIII. OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH
XIX. THE GREAT SURRENDER
Illustrations
THE U-BOAT DIVED SO ABRUPTLY THAT HER RUDDERS AND TWIN-SCREWS WERE CLEAR OF THE WATER
Frontispiece
"ENGLISCH OFFIZIER-PIG!" HE SHOUTED. "WE YOU TAKE PRISONER"
THE BIPLANE HAD GOT INTO A SPINNING NOSE-DIVE
THE PILOT THREW A BOMB FULL IN THE FACE OF A PRUSSIAN UNTER-LEUTNANT
"SHE'S GOING, LADS!" SHOUTED BRANSCOMBE