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...The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encounters with the German U-boats. It is a collection of short stories, each one complete, about them all. The author was also an Olympic athlete; winning a bronze, silver and g...

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...nging voice, and a facility with writing. His wartime service related in his diary is a series of triumphs over harrowing circumstances, bringing his boat back in spite of the best efforts of the Royal Navy to stop him.His one vulnerability is a young lady he meets on leave in Bruges, Belgium. Although she is the trophy girlfriend of a German colonel who could cause him mu...

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...The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U-28. His journal, first published 1916, gives a gritty picture of daily life inside a submarine and details several torpedo attacks on Allied shipping. The 1917 translation of Forstner’s journal into English was unquest...

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...er his shoulders! What pathos Scott ex- tracts from that “black bitch of a boat,” which Mucklebackit, in the frenzy of his grief, accuses for the loss...

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...her moorings, and the Aberdeen men, pick in hand, had seized upon the only boats, and he must stoop and lap sea- water before his tongue could utter a... ... by the pier. The same day we visited the shores of the isle in the ship’s boats; rowed deep into Fiddler’s Hole, sounding as we went; and having take... ...ere much together, bathing, clambering on the boul- ders, trying to sail a boat and spinning round instead in the 58 Robert Louis Stevenson oily whir... ...rth remark. The man or the hour had not yet come; but some day, I think, a boat shall put off from the Queen’s Ferry, fraught with a dear cargo, and s... ...ther time nor tide *Since the above was written I have tried to launch the boat with my own hands in Kidnapped. Some day, perhaps, I may try a rattle ...

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...Pete Erickson has long dreamed of sailing a small boat to Alaska. When he retires, he acts on his dream. It turns into a nightmare when his boyhood rival's jealousy turns into venom. Slen Kuskitt has become a drug lord. He has temporarily abandoned a 42-foot ketch. In it h...

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... Ansel. Teeth and all. We never saw him again. “No sir, he disappeared complete. The last thing we saw of him was his heels. So I’ll tie you to the boat, Marty. We don’t want to lose you.” He took a length of rope an inch thick, wrapped it around Marty’s middle and snubbed it off to a stanchion with a bowline knot. “Now that will keep you safe in the boat, anyhow,” he s...

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... been freed by Smith; the sailor Bonadventure Pencroff (who is addressed only by his surname, but his Christian name, Bonadventure, is given to their boat; in other translations, he is also known as Pencroft); his protégé Harbert Brown (called Herbert in some translations), a young boy whom Pencroff raises as his own after the death of his father (Pencroff's former captain...

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...ons......................54 What One Says to the Poet on the Subject of Flowers ........60 The Seekers of Lice .....................66 The Drunken Boat......................67 Vowels ..........................71 The Rooks .........................72 Memory..........................73 Teardrop..........................75 The Song of the Highest Tower...................

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...awlings would find them around noon. "Thank God, you know how to handle this boat," Alex said, as Brand skillfully maneuvered the sails, always tac...

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...ow no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions s...

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... fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evoluti... ...ns. -- A fleet of canoes visits Cook -- Character of the natives -- Houses and boats of the Caledonians -- Anchorage at Christmas Sound -- Visited by ... ...entive in applications for taking fish and undertaking voyages. Their earliest boats were made of reeds or papyrus, or other light material, cemented ... ...e Mediterranean shores, and, beginning their. pursuits of fishing, made larger boats than they had used on the Red Sea, and out of these evoluted the ... ... which accompanied him with such feat that they made precipitate haste for the boats, and immediately set sail from a land which they believed to be i... ...o have visited them), is to this effect: Twenty-six years before, four fishing boats put out to sea from Friesland, but encountering a heavy storm wer... ...ckoned to lie west of Friesland between one and two thousand miles. One of the boats was wrecked, and six men who survived the disaster reaching shore... ...any towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used small boats with sails, but having no compass, directed their vessels solely ... ...he fishermen with so much favor, that on one occasion he sent them with twelve boats to the southward to a country which he called Drogio, which, (by ...

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...ng. Lumber his trade, a sawmill his business, skilled hands creating sailing boats of wood and a summer house for garden fun, children's delights pour... ...ficult, but always she gives of her best, proudly wearing the school's straw boater with her striking, striped summer dress. Hockey, riding, tennis, b... ...t's no big deal after all! Football and swimming amuse but building cars and boats and trains completely absorbs, while at school science lessons ent...

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...hree-fourths of an hour Kate will have free elbow-room for unanchoring her boat, for unshipping her oars, and for pulling ahead right out of St. Sebas... ...she does any other little thing that angers you. The crew lowered the long-boat. Vainly the captain protested against this disloyal desertion of a kin... ...d sheet of lightning, which, through the darkness of evening, revealed the boat in the very act of mounting like a horse upon an inner reef, instantly... ...port she fled. All was silent. Watchmen there were none. She jumped into a boat. To use the oars was dangerous, for she had no means of muffling them.... ...ans of muffling them. But she contrived to hoist a sail, pushed off with a boat-hook, and was soon stretching across the water for the mouth of the ha... ... of Dyrrhachium, she might have said, for the comfort of her poor timorous boat, (though destined soon to perish,) ‘Catalinam vehis, et fortunas ejus.... ...this girl’s eternal wakefulness. Something was painted on the stern of her boat, she could not see what; but she judged that it would express some con... ...; and she stood, as you may see an Etonian do at times, rocking her little boat from side to side, until it had taken in water as much as might be agr... ... taken in water as much as might be agreeable. T oo much it proved for the boat’s constitution, and the boat perished of dropsy—Kate declining to tap ...

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...ower and pal- ace, and that busy shining scene of the Thames swarming with boats and barges, filled his heart with pleasure and cheerful- ness—as well... ... the fortune to be under fire for the first time—and under water, too,—his boat being swamped in the surf in Toros Bay, where the troops landed. The d... ...iefly here. When our fleet came within view of Cadiz, our commander sent a boat with a white flag and a couple of officers to the Governor of Cadiz, D...

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...PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT 1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Bran...

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...ould, for example, completely bar their exit through the North Sea. The U- boats run the gauntlet of that long narrow sea and pay a heavy toll to it. ...

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...y. Those who have read his little tale, “Horses,” and the story, “The Open Boat,” in the volume of that name, know with what fine understanding he lov... ...clock telling off the diminishing minutes of peace. It was the hour of the boat-trains to Holland, to Hamburg, and there seemed to be no lack of peopl... ...ne rain blew along like a puff of smoke across the dots of distant fishing boats, very few, very scattered, and tossing restlessly on an ever dissolvi... ... across my gaze of a German passenger. He was marching round and round the boat deck with char- acteristic determination. Two sturdy boys gambolled ro... ...ht under the clouds. I remained on deck until we stopped and a steam pilot-boat, so overlighted amidships that one could not make out her complete sha... ...oseph Conrad the triumphant beam of Heligoland extinguished, and the pilot-boat laid up, or turned to warlike uses for lack of its proper work to do. ... ...t of no heroic aspect. I have seen that. I have shared their days in small boats. Hard days. Ages ago. And now let me men- tion a story of to-day. I w... ...ved admirably. The chief officer with his watch managed to lower the No. 3 boat. Two other boats had been shattered by the explosion, and though anoth... ...th her, and was sucked under. On coming up he was caught under an upturned boat to which five hands were clinging. “One lifeboat,” says the chief engi...

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... chair]. THE YOUNG LADY. My name is Ellie Dunn. THE CAPTAIN. Dunn! I had a boatswain whose name was Dunn. He was originally a pirate in China. He set ... ... as we do here, daddiest. CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Only 500 pounds for that life- boat! I got twelve thousand for the invention before that. MRS HUSHABYE. Ye... ... Land-thieves and water-thieves are the same flesh and blood. I’ll have no boatswain on my quar- ter-deck. Off with you both. THE BURGLAR. Yes, Captai... ...s mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and ...

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...onna, called by the people of the locality ‘Santa Maria delle Grazie.’ The boatmen and fishermen of the Mincio, who had been, as they said, often save... ...o means pleasant. It took three-quarters of an hour to put the oxen in the boat, it took half an hour to get them on the other shore, and another hour... ...an hour to get them on the other shore, and another hour to have the ferry boat back. The panorama from the beach was splendid, the Po appeared in all... ...nd as if belonging to another world. Several peasants were waiting for the boat near me, talking about the war and the Austrians, and swearing they wo... ...and the high- est municipal authority in the place. I started in the ferry boat with them at last. While crossing they got to speak of the priests, an...

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...In order to reconnoitre the opposite bank, he crossed the river in a small boat; he had scarcely landed when he was at- tacked by a party of Spanish h... ...e ice upon the Danube, so that it was no longer passable on foot, while no boats could cross it, on account of the quantities of ice which were swept ... ...m the threatened danger. The enemy ten times attempted to form a bridge of boats over the Inn, and as often it was destroyed by the current. Never, du...

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...is your view of fishing, but maybe you have as much fun just riding in the boat as you do catching fish. Another person might think of fishing from a ...