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Title: The Submarine Hunters
A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War

Author: Percy F. Westerman

Illustrator: E. S. Hodgson

Release Date: September 16, 2008 [EBook #26641]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: "THE BLACK CROSS FLAG WAS HAULED DOWN,
AND REHOISTED UNDER THE WHITE ENSIGN"]

The Submarine Hunters

A Story of Naval Patrol
Work in the Great War

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of

"Rounding Up the Raider"
"The Dispatch-Riders"
"The Fight for Constantinople"
&c. &c.

_Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson_

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED

LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

1918

Contents

CHAP.

I. THE MYSTERIOUS MEETING ON ST. MENA'S ISLAND
II. THE TABLES TURNED
III. KIDNAPPED
IV. THE AWAKENING
V. ABOARD U75
VI. THE TRAMP
VII. ON THE BED OF THE SEA
VIII. BALKED BY A SEA-PLANE
IX. THE LANDING AT PORT TREHERNE
X. A TREACHEROUS PLOT
XI. PREPARATIONS
XII. THE WHITE FLAG--AND AFTERWARDS
XIII. THE ARM OF THE LAW
XIV. A FRUITLESS QUEST
XV. THE ADMIRAL WORKS THE ORACLE
XVI. H.M.S. "CAPELLA"
XVII. A DOUBLE BAG
XVIII. THE SMOKE-SIGNALS
XIX. THAT FRIDAY NIGHT
XX. TO THE RESCUE
XXI. ADRIFT IN THE CHANNEL
XXII. AN UNEXPECTED CAPTURE
XXIII. MINED
XXIV. "SHRAP"
XXV. OFF THE BELGIAN COAST
XXVI. DISABLED IN MID-AIR
XXVII. NOT ON PAROLE
XXVIII. ALMOST RECAPTURED
XXIX. BOUND FOR THE BALTIC
XXX. THE AFFAIR OFF KIEL

Illustrations

"THE BLACK CROSS FLAG WAS HAULED DOWN AND
RE-HOISTED UNDER THE WHITE ENSIGN" . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

THE INTERVIEW WITH THE GERMAN CAPTAIN (missing from book)

"'D'YE KEN YON?' ASKED THE BRITISH SKIPPER, AS HE
EYED THE PODGY GERMAN LEUTNANT WITH CONTEMPT"

"THE 'TREMENDOUS' WAS HEADING STRAIGHT FOR THE DOOMED SUBMARINE"

THE SINKING OF