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"Yes, but what I want to know," said Jack, "is why she doesn't fire a torpedo through the net and sink the torpedoboat?" "Because," said Lord Hastings, with a smile, "being beneath the water, she is blind. She doesn't know in which direction to fire it. You forget that the German submarines are not equipped as was the D-16." "The good old D-16," said Jack. "How I wish we had her again, sir."
Only three fighting ships have been lost as a result of enemy action the patrol ship Alcedo, a converted yacht, sunk off the coast of France November 5, 1917; the torpedoboat destroyer Jacob Jones, sunk off the British coast December 6, 1917, and the cruiser San Diego, sunk near Fire Island, off the New York coast, on July 19, 1918, by striking a mine supposedly set adrift by a German submarine.
Charles followed in the same position in '99, '00 and '01 and Joseph K., later Lieutenant Commander of the torpedoboat destroyer Wadsworth played quarter on the Naval Academy team in '97 and '98. A third trio of brothers were the Greenways of Yale. Of these, John and Gil Greenway played both football and baseball while Jim Greenway rowed on the crew.
"Had some of the admiralty officials been convinced half so easily, this submarine menace might have been effectually stopped long before this." As the motorboat continued down the Thames, each occupant remained busy with his thoughts. It was Frank who broke the silence. "What has happened to the torpedoboat destroyers, sir?" he asked.
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