... that had brought us up all standing. We must have sailed clean over it in the darkness, and, in the absence of a rudder guard, it had slipped up between the rudder and the stern post, holding on to us as firmly as a stern anchor. The phosphorus and ...

... time. We were fired at by the Spanish forts, and also received a visit from Spanish aeroplanes, who tried dropping bombs round us, but were driven off by Rif f gunfire, one being brought down and captured by the Riffs. The coast guards are all first-class ...

... out a long way off shore: also on both flood and ebb tides there is a fairly strong set across the pierhead which must be guarded against. As far as we could tell on our run down to the Longnose, the wind seemed to be backing round to the South of West ...