Sea Warfare. Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг

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       Rudyard Kipling

      Sea Warfare

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664628497

Table of Contents

       THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET

       THE AUXILIARIES

       I

       THE AUXILIARIES

       II

       SUBMARINES

       I

       SUBMARINES

       II

       PATROLS

       I

       PATROLS

       II

       TALES OF "THE TRADE"

       (1916)

       "THE TRADE"

       I

       SOME WORK IN THE BALTIC

       II

       BUSINESS IN THE SEA OF MARMARA

       III

       RAVAGES AND REPAIRS

       DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND

       (1916)

       I

       STORIES OF THE BATTLE

       II

       THE NIGHT HUNT

       III

       THE MEANING OF "JOSS"

       IV

       THE MINDS OF MEN

       THE NEUTRAL

THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET

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      (1915)

      In Lowestoft a boat was laid,

       Mark well what I do say!

       And she was built for the herring trade,

       But she has gone a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin',

       The Lord knows where!

      They gave her Government coal to burn,

       And a Q.F. gun at bow and stern,

       And sent her out a-rovin', etc.

      Her skipper was mate of a bucko ship

       Which always killed one man per trip,

       So he is used to rovin', etc.

      Her mate was skipper of a chapel in Wales,

       And so he fights in topper and tails—

       Religi-ous tho' rovin', etc.

      Her engineer is fifty-eight,

       So he's prepared to meet his fate,

       Which ain't unlikely rovin', etc.

      Her leading-stoker's seventeen,

       So he don't know what the Judgments mean,

       Unless he cops 'em rovin', etc.

      Her cook was chef in the Lost Dogs' Home,

       Mark well what I do say!

       And I'm sorry for Fritz when they all come

       A-rovin', a-rovin', a-roarin' and a-rovin',

       Round the North Sea rovin',

       The Lord knows where!

THE AUXILIARIES

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      The Navy is very old and very wise. Much of her wisdom is on record and available for reference; but more of it works in the unconscious blood of those who serve her. She has a thousand years of experience, and can find precedent or parallel for any situation that the force of the weather or the malice of the King's enemies may bring about.

      The main principles of sea-warfare hold good throughout all ages, and, so far as the Navy has been allowed to put out her strength, these principles have been applied over all the seas of the world. For matters of detail the Navy, to whom