List of Illustrations
| COLOUR PLATES | |
| “Shells fell upon her like hailstones, sweeping her decks, crashing into her sides. She was on fire” | [ Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| “Sword in hand, Roberts led his men to the fight, dashing through a very hail of shot” | [ 90] |
| “The funnels and ventilators were belching forth mighty columns of flame, every part of the ship was ablaze” | [ 150] |
| “Though her men worked hard at the pumps, they could not save her” | [ 226] |
| BLACK-AND-WHITE PLATES | |
| FACING PAGE | |
| “Kennedy, with a couple of middies and fewer than thirty men, rushed aboard” | [ 8] |
| “A mighty gale caught Diaz, and carried his frail craft before it” | [ 30] |
| “Promptly boarded the Vice-Admiral. ‘Surrender!’ yelled the Buccaneers” | [ 50] |
| “There was a whoosh! whoosh! of a rocket heavenwards—the warning to the blockading fleet” | [ 94] |
| “Weybhays and his men fell upon the pirates” | [ 108] |
| “‘For the honour of the Queen of England, I must have passage this way!’ cried Drake, and discharged his pistol” | [ 134] |
| “The ship was now in one blaze, and her masts began to fall in” | [ 154] |
| “Swinging from this side to that as he was attacked, the diver managed to ward off the tigers of the deep” | [ 176] |
| “To the rigging they fled, scrambling up in frenzied haste” | [ 200] |
| “It was simply agonising to watch the wretched men struggling over the ship’s bottom in masses” | [ 216] |
| “She fought bravely against the tumult, but was driven back again and again” | [ 250] |
| “Men, strong-limbed, full-blooded, with the zest and the love of life in them, stood calmly by” | [ 300] |
THE BOY’S BOOK OF THE SEA