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E. Keble Chatterton. Gallant Gentlemen
Gallant Gentlemen
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. WHY THE GOEBEN GOT AWAY
CHAPTER II. THE DUMMY FLEET
CHAPTER III. CRUISERS AT CORONEL
CHAPTER IV. THE APPROACH TO BATTLE
CHAPTER V. DUEL TO DEATH
CHAPTER VI. THE ADVENTURES OF DWARF
CHAPTER VII. THE DECOY STEAMER
CHAPTER VIII. THE GALLANT BARALONG
CHAPTER IX. THE DIVE TO DEATH
CHAPTER X. THE GATE CRASHERS
CHAPTER XI. BOOM JUMPING
CHAPTER XII. THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIII. DASHING INTO KRONSTADT
CHAPTER XIV. PLAIN PIRACY
INDEX
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E. Keble Chatterton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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On July 31 the officers were given special instruction in Prize Law, identity disks were served out, and preparations made for jettisoning all superfluous woodwork. When on August 2 the ships coaled at Messina, it was in spite of Italian protestations; but the German Ambassador in Rome had overcome the problem, and here three days later the same two ships, after bombarding French colonial ports, were back once more with the same greed for coal. Now the lie has been spread in Germany that this coal on August 5 was obtained from a British collier named Wilster through the influence of whiskey and bribery. It may therefore be well to state the true facts.
The S.S. Wilster, whose master was P. A. Eggers of Sunderland, left Penarth some days before the war bound with a cargo of Welsh coal consigned to the Hugo Stinnes Coal Company at Messina. The collier arrived off the entrance at sunset on August 4 and was met by a tug who ordered Captain Eggers to anchor in the roadstead, and come ashore next morning for instructions. Next day at 8 a.m. he was in his boat coming off when he saw the Goeben arrive and anchor near his ship, and it was only now Captain Eggers learned that war had broken out. He duly received from the consignees the order to bring his ship into harbour and moor alongside a coal hulk.
