-- -- in Straits of Dover, 56

Duffel clothing, 195

Dunkirk, a night spent in, 293-300

-- patrols, 286, 293-300

EFFECT of danger on human senses, 261

Effect of shell fire, 256

Electrically controlled boats off Zeebrugge, 290-293

_Engadine_, H.M.S., 255

England's food supply, 18-19

Evening quarters in warships, 41

Examination ships, 68

Excitement, suppressed, before an action, 259

Exploratory minesweeping, 158-161

FIGHT, an epic, 226-232

Finding the ships, guns and men, 21

Firth of Forth, mines in, 209

Fishing fleets, armed guards with, 279-285

Fleet sweeping, 161

French ship, mysterious disappearance of, 264

GERMAN High Sea Fleet, 249

-- naval position in 1914, 18

-- submarine bases, 127

-- mine-laying, 143

-- raiders, _Wolfe_ and _Moewe_, 145

-- mines, description of, 145, 148

-- -- and Hague Convention, 150-152

-- mine-laying policy, 154-156

-- submarine offensive, 155

-- minesweeping, 169

-- submarines, loss of, 186

-- mine-field, a Christmas spent on, 192-201

Grand Fleet, 233, 255, 286

-- bases, 103

Granton Naval Base, 103

Guarding a mine-field, 201

Gunboats patrol, 53

Gunnery classes, 43-44

HARBOUR duties, 115

-- mines at entrance to, 209-219

-- sweeping, 162

Harwich patrols, 286

_Hermione_, training ship for new navy, 33, 36-49

Hope of action, 202

Hydrophone attack, 134-135

-- branch of naval service, 76

-- flotillas, 134-135

Hydrophones, 70-84

-- object of, 70

-- portable, 71

-- -- use of, 71-72

-- construction of, 72-74

-- limitations in use of, 77-78

-- directional, 75

-- -- use of, 76

-- fitted in U and U-C boats, 76-77

ICELAND fishing fleet, 195, 200

Indian Ocean, mine-fields in, 145

Indicator nets, 85, 89, 138, 258-263

Intelligence offices in naval bases, 108, 129

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