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Title: A SUB AND A SUBMARINE —
The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War
Date of first publication: 1919
Author: Percy Francis Westerman (1876-1959)
Date first posted: April 10, 2014
Date last updated: December 5, 2020
Faded Page eBook #20140423

This eBook was produced by: Al Haines

[Transcriber’s Note: The printed edition on which this ebook is based
included five illustrations by E. S. Hodgson. The copyright status of
these illustrations is uncertain, and they have consequently been
omitted from this digital edition.]

[Illustration: Cover]

[Frontispiece: ANOTHER AND ANOTHER SHELL SPED FROM THE SUBMARINE’S GUNS
_Page 53_]

A SUB
AND A SUBMARINE

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

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

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

BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN

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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.

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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