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The Fighting Fleets; Five Months of Active Service with the American Destroyers and Their Allies in the War Zone

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Title: The Fighting Fleets; Five Months of Active Service with the American Destroyers and Their Allies in the War Zone
Condition: Used
Author(s): Ralph Delahaye Paine
Format: Hardcover

Year: 1918
Language: English

Details: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THE SUBMARINE THAT SURRENDERED A PLODDING merchant convoy steamed over a smooth sea, not far from the Irish coast, with a hovering escort of American destroyers. The speed was necessarily that of the slowest ship and it was not easy to herd them in their proper positions. Master mariners of a nervous temper and more horse power in the engine-room were apt to edge away and push ahead of the laggards until a flag- hoist from a destroyer bade them mind their manners and do as they were told. No matter how vigilantly they were held in line and guarded, there was the continual risk of attack. A slim wand of a periscope broke the surface, like an eye at the end of a tentacle of some lurking and formidable sea monster. It was exposed no more than a few seconds, a furtive glimpse, but the commander of the German submarine had discerned the reflected image of a fine ship, the largest of the flock, which was about to pass within fair torpedo range. This was the coveted opportunity for which he had been cruising and waiting, lying under the sea during the short daylight hours and awash or emerged at night with the crew greedily gulping the fresh air on deck and ready to scramble down the hatch at the alarm of the hooter horn in the conning-tower. It was the commander’s first trip in this U-boat and he had wandered over an empty sea from which all shipping seemed to have vanished. He had blown up one wretched little fishing schooner, but this was like shooting rabbits when one is out for big game, and it was really no better than target practice. What happened to the fishermen was of no consequence. At night he had sighted one or two American destroyers passing like shadows, but their lookouts were unable to descry. The gray streak of the submarine’s deck as she lay shr…

ISBN: 9780217940511
LCC: V

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Weight2.5 lbs
Dimensions18 × 14 × 3 in
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Book Title

The Fighting Fleets; Five Months of Active Service With the American Destroyers and Their Allies in the War Zone

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Used – Good

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Adults

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