The British Navy Book (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The British Navy Book It is a grey morning out on the North Sea, with but little wind. There is no swell, but considerable movement on the surface of the waters, with here and there an occasional tossing of the white manes of the sea-horses. Swimming majestically through the sea comes one of our monster slate-grey battle-cruisers. She is stripped to a gantline, and in complete and instant readiness for action. The red cross of St. George ¿utters bravely at her fore-topmast head, for she is the ¿agship of the squadron of three or four tower ing grey ships that are following in her wake. Aft ¿ies the well-known White Ensign, the meteor ¿ag of England blazing in the corner. Far away on either how, but dimly discernible on the wide horizon, are the shadows of other smaller ships, the light cruisers, which are moving ahead and on the ¿anks of the squadron like cavalry covering the advance of an army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.