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Title: The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise
The Young Kings of the Deep

Author: Victor G. Durham

Release Date: November 13, 2005 [eBook #17058]

Language: English

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Note: This is book five of eight of the Submarine Boys Series.

THE SUBMARINE BOYS' LIGHTNING CRUISE

The Young Kings of the Deep

by

VICTOR G. DURHAM

1910

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
I. Why the Danger Sign Was Up
II. Torpedo Practice at Last
III. Struck by a Submerged Foe
IV. A Submariner's Revenge
V. The Mysterious Order Comes
VI. Judas & Co. Introduce Themselves
VII. Eph Sommers Plays Gallant
VIII. One, Two, Three--A Full Bag
IX. But Something Happened Next
X. John C. Rhinds Advocates Fair Sport!
XI. The Strain of Red-Hot Metal
XII. Let a Sailor Stick to Her Deck
XIII. The Trick is Easily Seen Through
XIV. Radwin Doesn't See His Best Chance
XV. The Goal of the Lightning Cruise
XVI. Jack Gives the Order. "Fire!"
XVII. The Message of Terror
XVIII. The Findings on the "Thor"
XIX. On the Other Side of the Forced Door
XX. Captain Jack Pulls a New String
XXI. Jack Meets a Human Fact, Face to Face
XXII. A Cornered Submarine Captain
XXIII. A Coward's Last Ditch
XXIV. Conclusion

CHAPTER I

WHY THE "DANGER" SIGN WAS UP

"Danger!"

That sign might have been over an air-hole in the ice; or it might have
been near rapidly moving shafting and belting in a factory.

As a matter of fact, the letters, white against the red paint on the door
of the shed, meant danger in the most terrible form. It was the sort of
danger, which, defied too far, would send one traveling skyward.

The shed stood in a lonely corner of the big Farnum shipbuilding yards at
Dunhaven. Now, it was the Farnum yard in which the Pollard submarine
boats were built, and this shed contained some two dozen Whitehead
submarine torpedoes, each with its fearful load of two