Cinderellas of the fleet . the prohibited area. Any such craftwould also be heard by the hydrophone listening stations. The orders were to proceed at full speed and not to stop untilpicked up by the searchlights or fired upon. This he did, zigzagging,stopping, going full speed astern, in order to elude the searching-fingers of light that seemed every instant to be on the point of exposinghim. Finally a blinding shaft picked up the M. L. and in scarcely aseconds time it was the center of two score powerful beams like abrilliant gem in some weird, titanic stage setting. Then when thewatchers dis
Cinderellas of the fleet . the prohibited area. Any such craftwould also be heard by the hydrophone listening stations. The orders were to proceed at full speed and not to stop untilpicked up by the searchlights or fired upon. This he did, zigzagging,stopping, going full speed astern, in order to elude the searching-fingers of light that seemed every instant to be on the point of exposinghim. Finally a blinding shaft picked up the M. L. and in scarcely aseconds time it was the center of two score powerful beams like abrilliant gem in some weird, titanic stage setting. Then when thewatchers discovered that they had not bagged a German, the lights wentout and the M. L. returned to an extra late supper. Such things as those were all in the days work of the M. L. andmany a time the similarity that these little craft bore to a submarineon the surface, accentuated by fog, darkness or the fevered imagina-tions of some high-strung gun crew, drew the fire of their owncountrymen—and a brief line in the obituary Iroin Yachtiiirj Monthly. Cii.\iti:k IInil-: -M. AT THE ZEEBRUGGE RAID BV all odds ihe most spectacular and genuinely heroic na\al eventoi the war was the iaid which resulted in the blocking of themouth of the canal at /eebrugge. This canal which connectsBruges with the coast had long been a base for German was of the utmost importance to the Germans, obviating as it did thelong run to and from Wilhclmshaven and the other home bases, andconsequent!)- it was so thoroughly fortified as to make it supposedly im-mune from attack. But here the German psychology was wrong againfor the coiiservative British Admiralty planned or consented to let agroup of its officers plan not only to attack Zeebrugge but actually todo the impossible stunt of closing the canal by sinking block shipsacross its entrance, under the concentrated fire of the land batteries. It took many months to perfect the plan of attack and during thistime the men, who had voltmteere
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