Cinderellas of the fleet . training, wastaking a lot of punishment on those selfsame waves that he had beenruling for so long. These suggestions were numerous and many of them proved ofservice, but the best of them was this: Why dont you go after thepirates with a fleet of fast motor boats? Probably John Bull already had been thinking along this line him-self for he had mobilized his trawlers and his yachts and his motorcraft early in the war, but at any rate his boat yards could not turnout a job of this size. Standardized Chasers might be all right andthey might not, but other definite thing
Cinderellas of the fleet . training, wastaking a lot of punishment on those selfsame waves that he had beenruling for so long. These suggestions were numerous and many of them proved ofservice, but the best of them was this: Why dont you go after thepirates with a fleet of fast motor boats? Probably John Bull already had been thinking along this line him-self for he had mobilized his trawlers and his yachts and his motorcraft early in the war, but at any rate his boat yards could not turnout a job of this size. Standardized Chasers might be all right andthey might not, but other definite things were needed and his shipyardswere having all they could handle to produce these things withoutexperimenting with something doubtful. By the spring of 1915 the submarine situation had become so gravethat the Lords of the Admiralty decided that something had to bedone and done quickly. From the frequent and audacious sinkings,some of them at the very mouths of English harbors, and the toll THE OF THE FLEET 15. Draum by J. C. Fuwell. An M. L. Strikes heavy weather in the Straits of Gibraltar. already taken from the British fleet itself, it was plain that a largeand powerful Navy was not the solution of the problem. Neitherwere the thousands of trawlers, and other auxiliary craft patrollingthe waters of the British Isles, able to check the growing menace. It was not long after this that a steamship arrived in New Yorkharbor bearing a commission of prominent British engineers on aquest for boats, and they frankly solicited the co-operation and adviceof those whose experience might be of service. America, throughJohn P. Holland, had given to the world the most terrible of all thedeadly implements of modern warfare and now America was calledupon to devise a means for its destruction. The very day of the arrival of the ship a message was receivedby the Standard Alotor Construction Company and the plant was keptlighted that e\€ning for the insjiection of the engineer o
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