The U-boat hunters

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James B. Connolly. The U-boat hunters

The U-boat hunters

Table of Contents

FOREWORDToC

ILLUSTRATIONS

NAVY SHIPSToC

NAVY MENToC

SEEING THEM ACROSSToC

THE U-BOATS APPEARToC

CROSSING THE CHANNELToC

THE CENSORSToC

ONE THEY DIDN'T GETToC

THE DOCTOR TAKES CHARGEToC

THE 343 STAYS UPToC

THE CARGO BOATSToC

FLOTILLA HUMOR—AT SEAToC

FLOTILLA HUMOR—ASHOREToC

THE UNQUENCHABLE DESTROYER BOYSToC

THE MARINES HAVE LANDED——ToC

THE NAVY AS A CAREERToC

THE SEA BABIESToC

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James B. Connolly

Published by Good Press, 2019

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They sent him to a ship that had been running between north and south ports on our own coast, shifting in winter-time to tropical waters. She was one of a group of thirty or forty that the department had on its little list to be made over into transports. She was the handsomest boat, but war makes nothing of beauty. Our officer ordered all her gleaming black underpaint off, also her pure white topside enamelling with the gold decorations here and there; then he swabbed her top and bottom with that dull blue-gray which the naval sharps say does blend best with a deep-sea background.

She had the prettiest little lounging-room. Our officers retained that—for even in war officers must have some place aboard ship to gather for a smoke and gossip—but they threw out the large, lovely fat pieces of furniture. In case of submarine attack or an order to abandon ship, the men might want to make a passage of that room in a hurry and no time there—in the dark it might be—to be falling over chairs and tables.

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