Chapter I: Front Matter

A SUB AND A SUBMARINE

BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN LIEUT. R.A.F.

"No boy alive will be able to peruse Mr. Westerman's pages without a quickening of his pulses."--Outlook.

Sea Scouts up-Channel; or, The Cruise of the _Spindrift_.

The Wireless Officer.

The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate Story.

Sea Scouts Abroad: Further Adventures of the _Olivette_.

The Salving of the "Fusi Yama": A Post-War Story of the Sea.

Sea Scouts All: How the _Olivette_ was won.

Winning his Wings: A Story of the R.A.F.

The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge: April, 1918.

With Beatty off Jutland: A Romance of the Great Sea Fight.

The Submarine Hunters: A Story of Naval Patrol Work.

A Lively Bit of the Front: A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front.

A Sub and a Submarine: The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War.

Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War.

The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists with the Belgian Forces.

Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War.

The Fight for Constantinople: A Tale of the Gallipoli Peninsula.

A Lad of Grit: A Story of Restoration Times.

LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.

A SUB AND A SUBMARINE

The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN Lieut. R.A.F.

Author of "A Lively Bit of the Front" "Under the White Ensign" "Rounding Up the Raider" &c. &c.

_Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson_

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY _Printed in Great Britain_

Contents

CHAP.

I. FLIRT'S INDISCRETION
II. AN ULTIMATUM
III. THE SUB'S STRATAGEM
IV. BOUND FOR THE BALTIC
V. THE STOWAWAY
VI. THE ZEPPELIN HUNT
VII. A DOUBLE BAG
VIII. "ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN"
IX. DRIFTING MINES
X. THE "HAVORNEN'S" WARNING
XI. CAUGHT IN THE NET
XII. "AWAY DIVING-PARTY!"
XIII. KAPITAN-LEUTNANT VON HOPPNER'S PROWESS
XIV. THE WAY OUT
XV. PICKING UP THE PILOT
XVI. THE BATTLE OF MOON SOUND
XVII. HIT
XVIII. PINNED DOWN
XIX. FORCED TO ASCEND
XX. UNDER RUSSIAN ESCORT
XXI. THE HOUSE IN BOBBINSKY PROSPEKT
XXII. WHEN THE LIGHT FAILED
XXIII. TRAPPED
XXIV. FORDYCE'S TWO VISITORS
XXV. "FLIRT, YOU'RE A BRICK!"
XXVI. A FRIEND IN NEED
XXVII. THE FATE OF KLOSTIVITCH
XXVIII. RESCUED
XXIX. THE CAPTURED CONVOY
XXX. A DUEL TO THE DEATH
XXXI. VON HOPPNER'S BOAST
XXXII. "TAKEN DOWN A PEG"
XXXIII. GOOD-BYE TO THE BALTIC
XXXIV. HOME AGAIN

Illustrations

ANOTHER AND ANOTHER SHELL SPED FROM THE SUBMARINE'S GUNS _Coloured frontispiece_

THE TOO FAITHFUL FLIRT

AHEAD, ASTERN, ABOVE, AND BELOW, THE SHELLS BURST

IT WAS MINDIGGLE

"PASS UNDER MY LEE!"

A SUB AND A SUBMARINE