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At last a squadron was dispatched from Newport News to seek and destroy the enemy, whereupon the phantom-ships disappeared as suddenly as they had come. Not until Admiral Dayton ferreted out the Japanese cruisers at the Falkland Islands did our sailors again set eyes on the two battleships.
Phantom-ships, they might have been creatures of the night, surprised by day. The boy could see nobody aboard. Save for the flapping of the tricolours, and the occasional creak of a spar, they were still as death. The silence and terror of their coming sickened the lad. The voice of the old Commander, gruff and everyday at his elbow, reassured him. "Privateers," he growled "old friends both.
The silhouettes of six large battleships looking like phantom-ships rising from the depths of the boiling ocean could be plainly seen through the rain and waves about six thousand yards to starboard of the Connecticut. "Clear ships for action!" commanded the captain. The navigator and another lieutenant hurried to the telephones and transmitted the order.
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