Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War
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About This Book
About the Author: Percy F. Westerman was a prolific author of children literature, many of his books adventures with military and naval themes.Born in 1876, United KingdomDied: Feburary 22, 1959.Preview of the book:"...recoiling in masses of phosphorescent foam and at the same time sending clouds of spindrift flying across the lofty bridge. The Portchester Castle was forty-eight hours out from England, bound for patrol duties in the Eastern Mediterranean. It was by no means her first trip to that inland sea. In pre-war days, under a different name, she had been making regular pleasure trips un...
Chapters (62)
- Under the White Ensign
- Under the White Ensign
- A Naval Story of the Great War
- PERCY F. WESTERMAN
- BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
- UNDER THE WHITE ENSIGN
- CHAPTER I
- Laddie's Warning
- CHAPTER II
- Held Up by a U-Boat
- CHAPTER III
- The Bomb in the Hold
- CHAPTER IV
- A Night on the Neutral Ground
- CHAPTER V
- The Encounter with a Spy
- CHAPTER VI
- The Dummy Periscope
- CHAPTER VII
- Rammed
- CHAPTER VIII
- "In the Ditch"
- CHAPTER IX
- A Midnight Expedition
- CHAPTER X
- How the Landing Party Fared
- CHAPTER XI
- Osborne's Capture
- CHAPTER XII
- The Turkish Biplane
- CHAPTER XIII
- The "Sunderbund's" Life-boat
- CHAPTER XIV
- Submarined
- CHAPTER XV
- Castaways on a Hostile Shore
- CHAPTER XVI
- 'Twixt U-Boat and Arabs
- CHAPTER XVII
- The Whaler's Voyage
- CHAPTER XVIII
- In the Nick of Time
- CHAPTER XIX
- Misunderstandings
- CHAPTER XX
- The Desert Wireless Station
- CHAPTER XXI
- "A Proper Lash Up"
- CHAPTER XXII
- The Fouled Propellers
- CHAPTER XXIII
- Driven to Destruction
- CHAPTER XXIV
- The Chase of the Felucca
- CHAPTER XXV
- An Unknown Antagonist
- CHAPTER XXVI
- Reunited
- CHAPTER XXVII
- A Daring Operation
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- Osborne's Reward
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