EBOOK, THE DIARY OF A U-BOAT COMMANDER ***
Eric Eldred, Marvin A. Hodges, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team.
THE DIARY OF A U-BOAT COMMANDER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BY ETIENNE
AND
_18 Illustrations on Art Paper by Frank H. Mason._
[Illustration: "We rammed a destroyer, passing through her like a knife
through cheese."]
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BOOKS BY ETIENNE
STRANGE TALES FROM THE FLEET
A NAVAL LIEUTENANT
1914--1918.
"In collaboration with Navallus.
Five Songs from the Grand Fleet."
[Illustration: "...they are so black and swift I don't go near them."]
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"We rammed a destroyer, passing through her like a knife through
cheese"
"...they are so black and swift I don't go near them"
"Steering north-westerly ... to lay a small minefield off Newcastle"
"He had suddenly seen the bow waves of a destroyer approaching at full
speed to ram"
"We were put down by a trawler at dawn"
"The torpedo had jumped clean out of the water a hundred yards short of
the steamer and had then dived under her"
"A moment later there was a severe jar; we had struck the bottom"
"As the dim lights on the mole disappeared, the ceaseless fountain of
star-shells, mingling with the flashing of guns, rose inland on our
port beam"
"We hit her aft for the second time...."
"The track met our ram"
"In the flash I caught a glimpse of his conning tower"
"The 1,000 kilogrammes of metal crashed down"
"Good-bye! Steer west for America!"
"It is a snug anchorage, and here I intend to remain"
"A trapdoor near her bows fell down, the White Ensign was broken at the
fore, and a 4-inch gun opened fire from the embrasure that was revealed
on her side"
"I sighted two convoys, but there were destroyers there.
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