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Updated: June 13, 2025
The sub, as we learned later, had landed fifteen shells into the steamer and wounded nine of her people, of whom three were of the bluejacket gun crew. One young bluejacket had been hit twice. He was carrying a shell to the gun when he caught the second one a piece of flying shell in his shoulder.
Then a second officer appeared at the rail. He had both hands up. 'We surrender, he said. ''Bout time, too, growled the big bluejacket. Strang repeated his former orders, and this time they were obeyed without hesitation. Ken's heart beat thickly as he watched the prisoners hurrying into the boat which had been lowered from her davits to a level with the deck.
They did that, shoving their crowded survivors out of the way to make room for the ceremony. The Putt! putt! putt! comes nearer and nearer. Next, from out of the blackness of the ocean they make out a little motor-dory. Balanced out on the gunwale of the little dory, when it comes nearer, they see an American bluejacket smoking a cigarette. No one else was in the dory. The dory ran alongside.
'Look at that! growled Roy Horan, pointing to a stalwart bluejacket who had just dropped at his oar as the boat pushed off the beach. 'It's murder! That's what it is. Sheer murder! Why the blazes can't the ships turn loose? 'Because they've got nothing to fire at. You can't chuck away 6-inch shells on the off chance of killing one sniper. You wait until the Turks appear in force.
I was there and heard an Irish bluejacket cursing them as a disgrace to his country. They do just what the priests tell them from week to week. Every Sunday they get their instructions. They keep up the cry of distress when there is no distress, for fear of breaking through the custom. They have been helped on all sides, but they will not utilise their advantages.
"He certainly was brought up on the quarter-deck before the captain, who had heard his queer shout, as everybody did, indeed, who was on deck at the time; but, the bluejacket who had misled him came forward at the last moment and got him released from chokey, our captain, who was a good-tempered chap and enjoyed a joke, letting them both off, although he read 'em a lecture and had to bite his lip the while he spoke of the heinousness of their joint offence, he being hardly able to speak seriously!"
But I repeated that my business was with Panama, not Valencia, and that if in this matter of his row I had any weight at Washington, as between preserving the nitrate beds for the trust, and preserving for his country and various sweethearts one brown-throated, clean-limbed bluejacket, I was for the bluejacket.
Another five minutes and the distance between the two was barely twelve hundred yards. 'Hallo, they're getting gay! remarked the big bluejacket, as rifles began to spit and bullets to throw up little jets of spray around the rushing submarine. Presently one clanged against the conning tower itself.
I remember that when Cherry was only about ten I used to look at her and think that there was something rather well, rather arresting about her face. It was such an aristocratic little face. I remember her in those old bluejacket blouses " "Yes, I do, too!" Peter said quickly, straightening up from restoring the vinegar demijohn to an obscure position in a lower cupboard.
Through the big telescope that swings on its pivot in the centre of the tower you could see that the Boers were loafing round it dressed in dirty mustard-colour. "Left-hand Gun Hill fired, sir," said a bluejacket, with his eyes glued to binoculars. "At the balloon" and presently we heard the weary pinions of the shell, and saw the little puff of white below. "Ring up Mr Halsey," said the captain.
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