merchant-cruisers

Updated: May 27, 2025

For a while longer he talked between puffs at his pipe of the "twilight service" rendered by the Armed Merchant-cruisers. He spoke of grim stern-chases under the Northern Lights, of perils from ice and submarines and winter gales, while the Allied strangle-hold tightened month by month, remorselessly, relentlessly. "It's a peaceful sort of job, though, on the whole," he concluded.

Bartimeus - The Long Trick

The Armed Merchant-cruisers maintain the Allied blockade across the trade routes of the Far North: "fancy" sailor-men do not apply for jobs in one of these amazons of the North Sea, and it takes more than a Naval uniform to bring a suspect sailing ship many miles into port for examination under an armed guard of four men. The Volunteer nodded. "We had a picnic, I can tell you.

Bartimeus - The Long Trick