Оглавление
Willis Boyd Allen. The North Pacific
The North Pacific
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. THE TRIAL OF THE "RETVIZAN."
CHAPTER II. "MAN OVERBOARD!"
CHAPTER III. SEALED ORDERS
CHAPTER IV. UNCLE SAM'S PACKING
CHAPTER V. OTO'S STRANGE VISIT
CHAPTER VI. A SCRAP IN MALTA
CHAPTER VII. O-HANA-SAN'S PARTY
CHAPTER VIII. A BATCH OF LETTERS
Footnote
CHAPTER IX. AT THE CZAR'S COMMAND
CHAPTER X. THE FIRST BLOW
CHAPTER XI. IN THE MIKADO'S CAPITAL
CHAPTER XII. BETWEEN TWO FIRES
CHAPTER XIII. WYNNIE MAKES A BLUNDER
CHAPTER XIV. THE ATTACK OF THE "OCTOPUS"
CHAPTER XV. UNDER THE RED CROSS
Footnote
CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST TRAIN FROM PORT ARTHUR
CHAPTER XVII. DICK SCUPP'S ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XVIII. OSHIMA GOES A-FISHING
CHAPTER XIX. AMONG THE CLOUDS
Footnote
CHAPTER XX. THE DOGGER BANK AFFAIR
CHAPTER XXI. THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR
Footnote
CHAPTER XXII. ON BOARD THE "KUSHIRO."
CHAPTER XXIII. TRAPPED IN MANCHURIA
CHAPTER XXIV. THE LITTLE FATHER
CHAPTER XXV. LARKIN RETIRES FROM BUSINESS
CHAPTER XXVI. "THE DESTINY OF AN EMPIRE."
CHAPTER XXVII. ORDERED HOME
Отрывок из книги
Willis Boyd Allen
A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
.....
"Anybody would think you had been taking a battleship out from under the enemy's guns," laughed Lieutenant-Commander David Rexdale. "Don't talk about 'trouble,' Tel., while it's daylight, off a home port, in good weather!"
The two were standing in the chart-room, just behind the bridge of the U. S. gunboat Osprey, as the vessel, leaving Boston Outer Light behind, headed slightly to the south of east. Rexdale, as his old chum Holmes had predicted, was now in command of the Osprey, and was taking her to Washington for a practice trip, on which the crew would be drilled in various manœuvres, including target-practice. Lieutenant Richard Staples, his executive, had been the captain's classmate at Annapolis. He was lanky and tall, and at the Academy had soon gained the sobriquet of "Telegraph Pole," or "Tel.," for short; a name that had stuck to him thus far in his naval career. He was a Californian, and, while very quiet in his manner, was a dangerous man when aroused—as the upper-class cadets had discovered when they undertook to "run" him. Rexdale was from the rural districts of New Hampshire, and was known to his classmates as "Farmer," a term which was now seldom applied to the dignified lieutenant-commander.
.....
