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Henry Taprell Dorling. Kerrell

Kerrell

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

CHAPTER XXVII

CHAPTER XXVIII

CHAPTER XXIX

CHAPTER XXX

CHAPTER XXXI

CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTER XXXIII

CHAPTER XXXIV

CHAPTER XXXV

CHAPTER XXXVI

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Henry Taprell Dorling

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Hendry always used the formal ‘First-Lieutenant’ instead of the more familiar ‘Number One.’ He was invariably aloof and secretive, facts which Kerrell resented. After all, he, Kerrell, was the man upon whom the command of the ship would devolve if anything happened to the captain. He had a right to know what was happening or about to happen. Nevertheless, the lieutenant-commander rarely told him what was contained in his sailing orders, and on this occasion not a word had been said beyond the customary orders for raising steam and for the manning of guns and torpedo-tubes during the night.

Intercepted enemy wireless might mean nothing. The speed of twenty-five knots, however, and the orders that ships’ companies were to be closed up at their action stations by 6 a.m. were not so ordinary. Something was in the wind, something out of the common. Kerrell could swear to that.

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