Sea Warfare eBook

Rudyard Kipling

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET	1
THE AUXILIARIES	1
I	1
THE OLDEST NAVY	1
THE SHIPS AND THE MEN	3
HUNTERS AND FISHERS	3
THE AUXILIARIES	4
II	4
A BLOCK IN THE TRAFFIC	6
THE NIGHT PATROL	7
SUBMARINES	8
I	8
LABOUR AND REFRESHMENT	9
UNDERWATER WORKS	10
FOUR NIGHTMARES	11
SUBMARINES	12
II	12
THE PRACTICE OF THE ART	13
THE MAN AND THE WORK	15
EXPERT OPINIONS	16
PATROLS	17
I	17
A LITTLE THEORY	18
DEATH AND THE DESTROYER	19
THE ADMIRABLE COMMANDER	21
WASTED MATERIAL	21
PATROLS	22
II	22
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST	23
RACIAL UNTRUTHS	25
TALES OF “THE TRADE”	26
I	27
SUBMARINE AND ICE-BREAKER	28
DEFEATED BY DARKNESS	30
II	31
ANNOYING PATROL SHIPS	32
MR. SILAS Q. SWING	34
THE PREENING PERCH	35
III	37
A BRAWL AT A PIER	38
STRANGE MESSMATES	39
REFITTING UNDER DIFFICULTIES	39
TROUBLE WITH A GUN	41
DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND	42
I	42
CRIPPLE AND PARALYTIC	42
NIGHT AND MORNING	43
THREE DESTROYERS	44
LUCK	44
TOWING UNDER DIFFICULTIES	45
USEFUL EMPLOYMENT	46
II	47
RAMMING AN ENEMY CRUISER	47
A FUGITIVE ON FIRE	48
THE CONFIDENTIAL BOOKS	49
THE ART OF IMPROVISING	50
ASKING FOR TROUBLE	52
III	53
A YOUNG OFFICER’S LETTER	53
SAVED BY A SMOKE SCREEN	54
CONCERNING JOSS	55
AN AFFAIR IN THE NORTH SEA	56
A “CHILD’S” LETTER	57
WHAT THE BIG SHIPS STAND	58
IV	59
HOW IT IS DONE	59
SHIP DOGS	60
THE FIGHT	61
THE SILENT NAVY	63
THE NEUTRAL	64

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