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Lewis R. Freeman. Stories of the Ships
Stories of the Ships
Table of Contents
THE STORY OF THE CORNWALL
I. Plymouth to the Falklands
II. The Battle of the Falklands
Footnote
THE STORY OF THE SYDNEY
I. The Signalman's Tale
II. Naval Hunnism. Some Inside History from the Falkland and Cocos Island Battles
II. LIFE IN THE FLEET
A BATTLESHIP AT SEA
A NORTH SEA SWEEP
Footnote
A VISIT TO THE BRITISH FLEET
THE HEALTH OF THE FLEET
ECONOMY IN THE GRAND FLEET
A SWEET SMELLING SAVOUR
I
II
III
CHRISTMAS IN A "HAPPY" SHIP
IN A BALLOON SHIP
COALING THE GRAND FLEET
THE STOKERS
III. AMERICA ARRIVES
THE UNITED STATES NAVY
"GETTING TOGETHER"
I. How the Officers of the British and American Ships that are working together in European Waters are making each other's Acquaintance
II. What the British Bluejacket thinks of the American
III. What the American Bluejacket thinks of Britain and the British
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Lewis R. Freeman
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"The Carnarvon and the Cornwall were to be given the formidable task of keeping the Gneisenau so busy that she could not help her sister fight the Defence. Our combined displacement was about equal to that of our prospective opponent, but the four seven-point-fives and twenty six-inch (all we had between us) could hardly have prevented her pounding us to pieces with her eight-point-twos, in the event that she elected to use her speed to keep beyond the effective range of our lighter guns. By dashing into close range we might have had a chance with her, or, again there was the possibility we might lead her a dance that would take her out of the way long enough to give the Defence time to finish polishing off the Scharnhorst, in which event the former might have been able to intervene in our favour.
"Small as would have been our chance of carrying through our part of the programme successfully, the Gneisenau was the one opponent I desired above all the others, on account of the way I knew it would buck up the ship's company to feel that they were having a whack at the ship that sunk the Monmouth. There were a good many men in the Monmouth who had gone to her from the Cornwall, and our men never tired cursing the Hun for letting their mates drown at Coronel without making any effort to save them. They had something to say on that score when their turn came at the Falklands.
