Chapter L: Cope Cornford

LONDON, _April, 1919_.

[_Printed after books were bound._]

CONTENTS

PAGE

UNDER THE PERISCOPE 1

PATROL 3

THE MOTHERS 45

EMPTY SADDLES 47

THE BOGIE MAN 67

‘EXERCISE ATTACKS’ 69

NEPTUNE AND BRITANNIA 103

PERSONNEL 105

THE DOCKYARD 145

‘SURVEY AND DEMAND’ 147

ACTION 191

THE REAL THING 193

THE SEAGULLS 231

‘FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA’ 233

UNDER THE PERISCOPE

I

We know the ships of Carthage,
We know how history speaks,
We know the Roman galleys,
The triremes of the Greeks.
We know the cogs and frigates,
The privateers and sloops,
We know the line-of-battle ships,
And lofty Spanish poops.