Part 48

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The American naval authorities early recognized that the swift destroyers were the most effective instruments for hunting down German submarines, and the most efficient guardians for the loaded troop and food ships crossing the Atlantic. Life on board one of these swift and powerful boats is described in the following narrative.

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FOOTNOTE:

Transcriber's Note: This narrative will be found in Vol. III of this series.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 18, double word "being" removed (without being able) Original read: (without being being able)

Page 33, word "with" was originally italicised. These italics were removed. (Nerissa, with Moorsom and Morris)

Page 39, "squaddron" changed to "squadron" (his magnificent squadron)

Page 59, "I" inserted into text (men than I could)

Page 86, "Fregicourt" changed to "Frégicourt" (Rancourt, and Frégicourt)

Page 143, "Candian" changed to "Canadian" (Canadian lines and had)

Page 151, "Hobenzollerns" changed to "Hohenzollerns" (upon the Hohenzollerns)

Page 158, "frome" changed to "from" (came from the sentries)

Page 178, "Meopotamia" changed to "Mesopotamia" (empire--Mesopotamia, Syria)

Page 238, "Wheras" changed to "Whereas" (Whereas, The Imperial German)

Page 267, "dramtically" changed to "dramatically" (was dramatically tense)

Page 294, "Consulor" changed to "Consular" (to American Consular)

Page 346, "depots" changed to "depôts" to match rest of article (and depôts north of)

Page 367, Sidenote: "defenses" changed to "defences" to match rest of text (Enemy defences west)

Page 375, "foremost" changed to "foremast" (The foremast had fallen)

Page 381, "other" changed to "others" (number of others)

Many words were hyphenated or not depending on the article. Examples: battlefield, battle-field; bridgehead, bridge-head; varied forms of cooperate, co-operate, coöperate.

At times manoevre was spelled with an oe-ligature. This is indicated in the text by enclosing the ligature in brackets .