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THE U-BOATS APPEAR 37

CROSSING THE CHANNEL 58

THE CENSORS 77

ONE THEY DIDN'T GET 92

THE DOCTOR TAKES CHARGE 108

THE 343 STAYS UP 127

THE CARGO BOATS 142

FLOTILLA HUMOR--AT SEA 157

FLOTILLA HUMOR--ASHORE 172

THE UNQUENCHABLE DESTROYER BOYS 186

THE MARINES HAVE LANDED-- 204

THE NAVY AS A CAREER 222

THE SEA BABIES 239

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Where you-all going?... Can't you-all see where
you're going? Keep off--keep off" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

She shoved out into the stream and kicked her way
down the harbor, and as she did so ... everybody
seemed to know 26

Our thirty-knot clip was eating up the road. We
were getting near the spot 98

In the engine-room of a submarine 242

NAVY SHIPS

More than one-third of our naval force was being reviewed by the
President. A most impressive assembly of men-o'-war it was, in tonnage
and weight of metal the greatest ever floated by the waters of the
western hemisphere.

The last of the fleet had arrived on the night before. From the bluffs
along the shore they might have been seen approaching with a mysterious
play of lights across the shadowy waters. In the morning they were all
there. Hardly a type was lacking--the last 16,000-ton double-turreted
battleship, the protected and heavy-armored cruisers, monitors,
despatch-boats, gun-boats, destroyers, attendant transport, and supply
ships. Fifty ships, 1,200 guns, 16,000 men: all were there, even to the
fascinating little submarines with their round black backs just showing
above the water.

It was that chromatic sort of a morning when the canvas of the
sailing-boats stands out startlingly white against the drizzly sky and
the smoke from the stacks of the steamers takes on an accented
coal-black, and, drooping, trails low in a murky wake. Rather a dull
setting at this early hour; but not sufficiently dull to check the
vivacity of the actors in the scene.

The President comes up the side