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Updated: May 19, 2025
Their release from duty might end any day. Under ordinary circumstances the chum would have been assigned before this to some patrol vessel, or the like, until their own ship, the Colodia, made port. Mr. Minnette, however, was trying to place them on the Kennebunk, the new superdreadnaught, for a short cruise.
That, and the fact that the full complement of the battleship's crew cannot be at once made up. There will be changes made in the crew of the Colodia when she returns from her European cruise. If you youngsters do well on the Kennebunk some of you may soon be gunners' mates. The present cruise of the Kennebunk is mainly for practice work."
It wabbled about in a most eccentric way, as though the submarine attached to it had risen just as the Kennebunk passed and had received the full force of her swell. "Jingo! that's a funny lookin' periscope," drawled one second-class seaman, a new recruit, craning his long neck to see over the heads of the group which Frenchy and Ikey had joined.
I saw him scratch his head, and go to the chart which lay on the companionway. Then I heard him shout "In the Pacific, by St. Kennebunk!" he always swore by this pious individual when excited "We have come through the Straits of Magellan without knowing it!"
Mudge, leaped upon a bowlder and began to signal, semaphore fashion. The signals were returned and the cutter swung in shoreward and soon dropped a boat for the castaways. The shipwrecked seamen from the Kennebunk swarmed down to the strand. Mr. MacMasters whispered to Whistler that they would have their breakfast aboard the Coast Guard boat.
This door kicked open outboard, giving vent upon the sea, the opening being about ten feet above the waterline of the Kennebunk. The two chums were deeply engaged in the compartment for some time while the crew and officers on deck watched the approach of the target boat. The course of that and the battleship would bring the two within speaking distance in an hour or less.
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