... of distinguishing onesell aetnm v enemy, and of accelerated promoti .So one hears little serious grumbling board these little ships, which do m of the “donkey work of maintain Hula in's mastery the seas, and mar senior looks back with regr the days when ...

... work together So many individual heroic deeds have been enacted on the bomb-battered open beaches of France on the big and little ships that have gone and again and again with the weary but still cheerful warriors in the planes that far and wide curtained ...

... in disproportionate numbers the German fighters and German bombers. TTith unlimited respect for the gallantry of the VY little ships which brought the B.E.F. off the beaches at Dunkirk, that job could not have been done but for the fact that our short-range ...

... C. EDMONDS Formerly on the editorial staff of The Sphere, now with the British Expeditionary Force.) THE RETURN OF THE LITTLE SHIPS: On Sunday last, Londoners on the Thames Embankment saw convoy after convoy of the small vessels which took part In the ...

... a powerful mine which according to all accepted standards ought to have sunk a far larger ship than a destroyer But the little ship was able to reach Gibraltar safely and after repairs was soon in service again Foreign Powers often buy destroyers from ...

... French have together provided still the while British and collaborating In troops Britain the first In history this the little ships doing deeds disembarkation troops the decks already unloaded which landed more thirty troops early had Dunkirk under heavy ...

... Cockle comprehensive vote moved Air H Barcroft The again successful POEMS OF THE WAR XXXIX THE GLORIOUS RETREAT ships and little ships against a summer sunset Trawler and destroyer in the choppy Channel foam Fishing boat and launch in an adventurous Armada ...

... CHANCE OF FIRING SILVER BULLETS AT THE COMMON ENEMY A SHILLING FOR EVERY MACHINE-GUN BULLET THAT BATTERED THE DECKS OF THE LITTLE SHIP THAT WAS THEIR HOME. r a } ' ...

... serving in one destroyer, the Scorpion, for seven years, a longer period than any other officer. It was in that famous little ship that he won distinction at the Dardanelles, for he made the Scorpion do far more work than Lerds tho Admiralty ever imagined ...

... off hour after hour. Yachtsmen and owners of small boats were called upon in large numbers to help in the ferry work. The Little Ship Club, of London, was able to furnish the names of thirty members able to take small craft to the South Coast or to act as ...

... little craft was not at her moorings. She had slipped away to Dunkirk again. She has been doing these trips for days. A little ship on a big job. They refused to tell me the skipper’s name, the name of the vessel was withheld too. Both of them are just ...

... leaving Ostend the Abukir was bombed incessantly but not hit. Then the continual air attacks suddenly ceased because the little ship had entered an area which a German U-boat was operating. At 1.15 am. next day the track of a torpedo was clearly seen passing ...