DENBIGH AND HIS COMPANIONS ARE RESCUED BY A MONITOR [Page 207]. Frontispiece

ROUNDING UP
THE RAIDER

A Naval Story of the Great War

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of "The Fight for Constantinople"
"Sea Scouts All"
&c. &c.

Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson

BLACKIE & SON LIMITED
LONDON AND GLASGOW
1916

By Percy F. Westerman
Haunted Harbour.
His Unfinished Voyage.
Midshipman Webb's Treasure
Winged Might.
Captain Flick.
Tireless Wings.
His First Ship.
The Red Pirate.
The Call of the Sea.
Standish of the Air Police.
Sleuths of the Air.
Andy-All-Alone.
The Westow Talisman.
The White Arab.
The Buccaneers of Boya.
Rounding up the Raider.
Captain Fosdyke's Gold.
In Defiance of the Ban.
The Senior Cadet.
The Amir's Ruby.
The Secret of the Plateau.
Leslie Dexter, Cadet.
All Hands to the Boats.
A Mystery of the Broads.
Rivals of the Reef.
Captain Starlight.
On the Wings of the Wind.
Captain Blundell's Treasure.
The Third Officer.
Unconquered Wings.
Pat Stobart in the "Golden Dawn".
Ringed by Fire.
Midshipman Raxworthy.
Chums of the "Golden Vanity".
Clipped Wings.
Rocks Ahead.
King for a Month.
The Disappearing Dhow.
The Luck of the "Golden Dawn".
The Salving of the "Fusi Yama".
Winning his Wings.
The Good Ship "Golden Effort".
East in the "Golden Gain".
The Quest of the "Golden Hope".
The Wireless Officer.
The Submarine Hunters.
The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge.
With Beatty off Jutland.
The Dispatch Riders.
A Cadet of the Mercantile Marine.
With the Last of the Buccaneers.
A Lively Bit of the Front.
The Westerman Omnibus Book

Printed in Great Britain by Blackie & Son, Ltd., Glasgow

Contents

CHAP.
I. [THE CAPTURED LINER]
II. [THE LAST OF THE NICHI MARU]
III. [ON BOARD THE RAIDER]
IV. [THREATENED]
V. [THE PURSUIT OF THE PELIKAN]
VI. [THE DECOY]
VII. [FOILED BY A COLLIER]
VIII. [REINFORCEMENTS]
IX. [THE MIDNIGHT LANDING]
X. [THE LAGOON]
XI. [DENBIGH'S PLAN]
XII. [A PERILOUS JOURNEY]
XIII. [NOCTURNAL INVESTIGATIONS]
XIV. [A NEGLECTED WARNING]
XV. [ARMSTRONG'S PART]
XVI. [THE DISASTER TO THE MYRA]
XVII. [A BID FOR FREEDOM]
XVIII. [DISAPPOINTMENT]
XIX. ["OUR LUCK'S OUT"]
XX. [ADRIFT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN]
XXI. [VON ECKENSTEIN'S SURPRISE]
XXII. [THE MONITORS IN ACTION]
XXIII. [HOW THE PELIKAN SURRENDERED]
XXIV. [THE LANDING PARTY]
XXV. [ACCOUNTED FOR]

Illustrations

[ DENBIGH AND HIS COMPANIONS ARE PICKED UP BY A MONITOR . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "BY JOVE!" EJACULATED O'HARA. "SHE MUST BE ONE OF OUR MONITORS" ]

[ THE 'LOG' WAS A HEALTHY SPECIMEN OF A CROCODILE ]

[ "UNLESS THE GERMAN ENSIGN is HAULED DOWN ON BOARD THE PELIKAN WITHIN AN HOUR, I OPEN FIRE" ]