The story of the great war . or craft to cooperate. In the darkness, without a light,the Vindictive made her way towards the shore, shrouded withsmoke thrown up from the smoke ships. A motor boat precedingher lighted flares on the water to show the way to the harbormouth. Fifteen minutes before the ship was due at the entrance,two motor boats dashed in and torpedoed the high wooden pierson either side of the entrance, both vanishing in the roar and leapof flame and debris. Suddenly there appeared high in the air a flame that sank slowlyearthwards, a signal from the fleet of aeroplanes, cruisin
The story of the great war . or craft to cooperate. In the darkness, without a light,the Vindictive made her way towards the shore, shrouded withsmoke thrown up from the smoke ships. A motor boat precedingher lighted flares on the water to show the way to the harbormouth. Fifteen minutes before the ship was due at the entrance,two motor boats dashed in and torpedoed the high wooden pierson either side of the entrance, both vanishing in the roar and leapof flame and debris. Suddenly there appeared high in the air a flame that sank slowlyearthwards, a signal from the fleet of aeroplanes, cruising over thetown, ready to drop bombs upon it at the proper moment. Thesame instant came the shriek of the first shells thrown from the 254 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR great guns of the British marine artillery, brought up to occupythe German heavy artillery. A tremendous roar from the shorereplied as every one of the many guns began action. Star shellsshot up, lighting the great smoke plumes; green flares and strings ZEEBRUGGE. Current Hist. Mag. N. Y. Times Co. OSTEND HaRBOU of luminous green balls, which the airmen called flaming onions,soared up and lost themselves in the clouds. Through all the glareand hail of shell, the Vindictive pushed steadily then came a fog, a real fog, dense, thick, moist! The ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND 255 Vindictive lost her way ; the motor boats could not see each other ;their flames were lost in the fog. Twice the old battleship cruisedacross the harbor entrance, missing it both times. The third timethere came a sudden rift in the mist and she saw the entrancedead ahead. She steamed over the bar and once she was in theGerman guns poured shells upon her. She was hit every fewseconds, her decks and turrets destroyed, her guns put out ofaction, her officers and men killed and wounded. She laid herbattered nose against the eastern pier and tried to swing across thechannel, but she was too hard and fast in the mud to be blew the main charge
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