A Naval Story of the Great War

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of "Rounding Up the Raider" "The Fight for Constantinople" &c.

Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

Contents

CHAP.

I. Laddie's Warning

II. Held Up by a U-Boat

III. The Bomb in the Hold

IV. A Night on the Neutral Ground

V. The Encounter with a Spy

VI. The Dummy Periscope

VII. Rammed

VIII. "In the Ditch"

IX. A Midnight Expedition

X. How the Landing Party Fared

XI. Osborne's Capture

XII. The Turkish Biplane

XIII. The "Sunderbund's" Life-boat

XIV. Submarined

XV. Castaways on a Hostile Shore

XVI. 'Twixt U-Boat and Arabs

XVII. The Whaler's Voyage

XVIII. In the Nick of Time

XIX. Misunderstandings

XX. The Desert Wireless Station

XXI. "A Proper Lash Up"

XXII. The Fouled Propellers

XXIII. Driven to Destruction

XXIV. The Chase of the Felucca

XXV. An Unknown Antagonist

XXVI. Reunited

XXVII. A Daring Operation

XXVIII. Osborne's Reward

Illustrations

"True to the long-established and glorious custom of the sea" - - - Frontispiece

"One by one five Germans stumbled up the ladder"

"The submarine was now in an awkward plight"

"Progress was tediously slow"

"The Greeks went down like ninepins"