Sea Warfare

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Rudyard Kipling. Sea Warfare

THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET

THE AUXILIARIES

SUBMARINES

PATROLS

TALES OF "THE TRADE" (1916) "THE TRADE"

SOME WORK IN THE BALTIC

BUSINESS IN THE SEA OF MARMARA

RAVAGES AND REPAIRS

DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND (1916)

STORIES OF THE BATTLE

THE NIGHT HUNT

THE MEANING OF "JOSS"

THE MINDS OF MEN

THE NEUTRAL

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The Navy is very old and very wise. Much of her wisdom is on record and available for reference; but more of it works in the unconscious blood of those who serve her. She has a thousand years of experience, and can find precedent or parallel for any situation that the force of the weather or the malice of the King's enemies may bring about.

The main principles of sea-warfare hold good throughout all ages, and, so far as the Navy has been allowed to put out her strength, these principles have been applied over all the seas of the world. For matters of detail the Navy, to whom all days are alike, has simply returned to the practice and resurrected the spirit of old days.

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"We'll fall in behind him. They're going over to the neutral. Then they'll sweep. By the bye, did you hear about one of the passengers in the neutral yesterday? He was taken off, of course, by a destroyer, and the only thing he said was: 'Twenty-five time I 'ave insured, but not this time… 'Ang it!'"

The trawlers lunged ahead toward the forlorn neutral. Our destroyer nipped past us with that high-shouldered, terrier-like pouncing action of the newer boats, and went ahead. A tramp in ballast, her propeller half out of water, threshed along through the sallow haze.

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