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Whatever you do, don't let 'em get your attenay, old bucket." Our thirty-knot clip was eating up the road. We were getting near the spot. The canvas caps came off the guns, and the gun crews were told to load and stand by. A chief gunner's mate was told to make ready his torpedo-tubes. He was a famous torpedo-man.
The Commander, recognisin' in me a man of agility, cautioned me to be a father an' mother to Mr. Carteret-Jones." "Didn't he know you?" I asked, thinking for the moment that there could be no duplicates of Emanuel Pyecroft in the Navy. "What's a torpedo-gunner more or less to a full lootenant commanding six thirty-knot destroyers for the first time?
After he had been at sea for a year he seemed a human machine, much of the type of the destroyer as a steel machine a thirty-knot human machine, capable of three hundred or five hundred revolutions, engines running smoothly, with no waste energy, slipping over the waves and cutting through them; a quick man, quick of movement, quick of comprehension and observation, of speech and of thought, with a delightful self-possession for there are many kinds which is instantly responsive with decision.
Just as Agnew was casting off from Bangor, when the last bale of arms had gone ashore, a message from U.V.F. headquarters informed him that a thirty-knot cruiser was out looking for the Fanny.
Three long tubes one fixed in the stem, two movable in the superstructure could launch Whitehead torpedoes, mechanical fish carrying two hundred and twenty pounds of guncotton in their heads, which sought in the water a twenty-foot depth, and hurried where pointed at a thirty-knot rate of speed.
A twenty-knot gunboat cannot chase a thirty-knot torpedo-boat very long without losing her below the horizon; but this pursuit lasted ten minutes from the time the sick man went overboard before the gunboat ceased firing and slackened speed. The quarry was five miles away, out of Spanish range, and the floating man directly under her bow.
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