LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["We rammed a destroyer, passing through her like a knife through cheese"]

["...they are so black and swift I don't go near them"]

["Steering north-westerly ... to lay a small minefield off Newcastle"]

["He had suddenly seen the bow waves of a destroyer approaching at full speed to ram"]

["We were put down by a trawler at dawn"]

["The torpedo had jumped clean out of the water a hundred yards short of the steamer and had then dived under her"]

["A moment later there was a severe jar; we had struck the bottom"]

["As the dim lights on the mole disappeared, the ceaseless fountain of star-shells, mingling with the flashing of guns, rose inland on our port beam"]

["We hit her aft for the second time...."]

["The track met our ram"]

["In the flash I caught a glimpse of his conning tower"]

["The 1,000 kilogrammes of metal crashed down"]

["Good-bye! Steer west for America!"]

["It is a snug anchorage, and here I intend to remain"]

["A trapdoor near her bows fell down, the White Ensign was broken at the fore, and a 4-inch gun opened fire from the embrasure that was revealed on her side"]

["I sighted two convoys, but there were destroyers there...."]

["... when there was a blinding flash and the air seemed filled with moaning fragments"]

["When I put up my periscope at 9 a.m. the horizon seemed to be ringed with patrols"]