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The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet By: Kenneth Ward |
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By KENNETH WARD 12mo. Cloth. Fully Illustrated 50ยข per Volume THE NEWEST BOYS' BOOKS ON THE EUROPEAN WAR, RELATING THE ADVENTURES OF TWO AMERICAN BOYS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES IN BATTLE AND ON AIR SCOUT DUTY. ALL PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH AUTHENTIC DRAWINGS. =The Boy Volunteers on the Belgian Front= Describes the adventures of two American boys who were in Europe when the great war commenced. Their enlistment with Belgian troops and their remarkable experiences are based upon actual occurrences and the book is replete with line drawings of fighting machines, air planes and maps of places where the most important battles took place and of other matters of interest. =The Boy Volunteers with the French Airmen= This book relates the further adventures of the young Americans in France, where they viewed the fighting from above the firing lines. From this book the reader gains considerable knowledge of the different types of air planes and battle planes used by the warring nations, as all descriptions are illustrated with unusually clear line drawings. =The Boy Volunteers with the British Artillery= How many boys to day know anything about the great guns now being used on so many European battle fronts? Our young friends had the rare opportunity of witnessing, at first hand, a number of these terrific duels, and the story which is most fascinatingly told is illustrated with numerous drawings of the British, French and German field pieces. =The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet= Our young heroes little expected to be favored with so rare an experience as a trip under the sea in one of the great submarines. In this book the author accurately describes the submarine in action, and the many interesting features of this remarkable fighting craft are made clear to the reader by a series of splendid line drawings. THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK [Illustration: An explosion followed that seemed to tear everything to pieces. ] THE BOY VOLUNTEERS WITH THE SUBMARINE FLEET BY KENNETH WARD THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright, 1917, by AMERICAN AUTHORS PUBLISHING CO. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE OMINOUS WARNING ON SHIPBOARD 13 II. THE TORPEDOED SHIP 25 III. PRISONERS ON BOARD OF A SUBMARINE 37 IV. THE TERRORS IN THE DARK ROOM OF AN UNDERSEA BOAT 49 V. SOME OF THE MYSTERIES OF A SUBMARINE 58 VI. GROPING THROUGH THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 68 VII. CAUGHT IN THE DEEP SEA NETS 78 VIII. THE NIGHT'S STRUGGLE TO FREE THE VESSEL 89 IX. THE CAPTURE OF THE SUBMERGED VESSEL 99 X. THE SECRET KEY TO THE BOMB FUSE 110 XI. OPERATING THE SUBMARINE WITH A CAPTIVE CREW 120 XII. THE DEATH BLOW TO THE SUBMARINE 130 XIII. THE RESCUE IN THE CHANNEL 142 XIV. TEN HOURS IN THE DANGER ZONE 151 XV. A FRIGHTFUL MINE EXPLOSION 161 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS An Explosion Followed That Seemed to Tear Everything to Pieces Frontispiece PAGE The Points of the Compass 27 The Submarine Decoy 30 Map Showing the Scene of the Wanderings of the Boys 43 The Steel Nets 73 The Entangled Submarine 95 The Periscope 137 The Conning Tower... Continue reading book >>
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