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