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Title: The Harwich Naval Forces
Their Part in the Great War

Author: E. F. Knight

Release Date: September 20, 2010 [EBook #33769]

Language: English

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THE HARWICH NAVAL FORCES

THE HARWICH
NAVAL FORCES

_Their Part in the Great War_

BY
E.F. KNIGHT

AUTHOR OF "WHERE THREE EMPIRES MEET,"
"THE CRUISE OF THE 'FALCON,'" "THE 'FALCON' ON THE BALTIC," ETC.

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON, NEW YORK, TORONTO
MCMXIX

PREFACE

Recent visits that were made to Harwich for the purpose of writing a
series of articles on the Harwich Naval Forces for the _Morning Post_
suggested to me the amplification of these articles and their
reproduction in the form of a little book. This does not profess to be
anything more than a summary of the gallant doings of the Harwich
Forces in the course of the war. The full history, no doubt, will be
written some day. But this, I hope, may serve as a record that will
enable many to realise better what Britain owes to the Navy, and what
a great work was done by the light cruisers, destroyers, submarines,
and auxiliary vessels that had Harwich as their base throughout the
war.

For the purposes of this book I have referred to no official records.
Conversations with those who were eye-witnesses of and participators
in the events that I have here described have served as my sole source
of information.

My thanks are due to the naval officers who so readily assisted me in
my quest while I was in Harwich, and to the _Morning Post_ for the
kind permission which I have received to publish in book form my
articles that appeared in that paper.

E.F.K.

CONTENTS

_Part I_

THE HARWICH FORCE

CHAPTER I