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Updated: June 18, 2025
It's a short run and she ought to have arrived yesterday morning." "The Germans can't have got her. They have no commerce-destroyers in these waters," Bethune remarked, with a glance at Dick. "Your navy corralled the lot, I think." Dick wondered why Bethune looked at him, but he answered carelessly: "So one understands. But it's strange the French company cut out the last call.
Jean Bart died in 1702; but in Forbin, Du Casse, and others, and above all in Duguay-Trouin, he left worthy successors, the equals of any commerce-destroyers the world has ever seen.
The distance of these ports from each other, disadvantageous for regular military combinations, is an advantage for this irregular secondary operation; for the essence of the one is concentration of effort, whereas for commerce-destroying diffusion of effort is the rule. Commerce-destroyers scatter, that they may see and seize more prey.
The "Dolphin," of fifteen hundred tons displacement and a speed of fifteen knots, was designed as an auxiliary in naval operations, and it was expected that she would furnish a model for high-speed commerce-destroyers to be subsequently built. These vessels were constructed at an aggregate cost of over $2,400,000, in the shipyard of John Roach, of Chester, Pa. The "Dolphin" was launched in 1884.
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