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"Yet suppose the destroyers had been half a minute longer in sighting the tell-tale periscopes?" Prescott suggested. "But they weren't tardy, and it wouldn't be like the Navy to be slow," rejoined Major Wells. "I still contend that there is nothing very exciting in passing through the danger zone on a troopship."
Again came the call, seemingly closer at hand. It was Ted, now faintly, now more clearly. The sound of that voice galvanized the youth in the water. Jack flung out his free limbs in a frenzy of muscular energy. Something loomed up in the blue of the sky near him and he beheld for one instant the periscopes of the Dewey. She was drawing closer to the pair in the water!
Picking his way according to the German chart, he set a zigzag course. At length the officers of the Monitor knew they were closing in, and so far successfully. The submarines were running submerged with only the tips of their periscopes showing. All at once there appeared in the sky directly ahead of the Monitor a line of red lights.
By keeping the small boats covered with a deck gun or by putting a boarding crew aboard, it was possible for the commanders of the submarines to keep their periscopes or the hulls of their vessels behind the sails of the fishing boats, unobservable to lookouts on larger ships.
"We " Dick began, but he stopped right there, for of a sudden three of the destroyers let go with their three-inch guns with a great deal of energy. Two periscopes had been sighted off to northward. After a few rounds had been served from the destroyers' guns the firing ceased, for half a dozen of the escort craft had gone racing northward and there was danger of hitting them.
The flagship immediately fell behind, helpless, and Admiral Fletcher, badly wounded and realising that his vessel was doomed, signalled to Admiral Mayo, on the Arizona, second in line, to assume command of the fleet. "Look!" cried Astor, suddenly, pointing to two black spots in the sea about a thousand yards away. "Periscopes," said I.
Half an hour later, when it had been determined by the telephones that the German ships had moved on westward, the Dewey began again to ascend the depths. Early dawn was streaking the sky with tints of orange gray when at last the submarine poked its periscopes above the waves.
When we resumed our walk I noticed that she consistently kept two or three yards away from me. "Just shooting distance!" I said to myself. "By the way, what are we supposed to be looking for?" I enquired presently. "Chiefly periscopes, I think," said she. I stopped short and gazed over the inky sea. "Do they light them up for us?" I asked. She laughed despite herself.
When our infantry attacked at Gommecourt and Beaumont Hamel and Thiepval they were received by waves of machine-gun bullets fired by men who, in spite of the ordeal of our seven days' bombardment, came out into the open now, at the moment of attack which they knew through their periscopes was coming.
He said the last time he come over with troops they was two subs got after this ship and they shot two periscopes at this ship and just missed it and they seem to be laying for this ship because its one of the biggest and fastest the U. S. has got.
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