CHAPTER IV

Bound for the Baltic At seven the following morning a taxi-cab deposited Sub-Lieutenant Fordyce and his scanty baggage on the jetty at Otherport Dockyard. Here a steam pinnace was awaiting to convey him to H.M.S. _Barnacle_, an obsolete cruiser employed as a parent ship to the submarine flotilla of the Otherport Division. Alongside the _Barnacle_ lay R19, one of the most recent type of submarine craft. She was nearly three hundred feet in length, with a maximum beam of twenty-five feet. Over her bulging hull was …