Within six months all these Flotillas were thought of—designed—built—and in service, and nothing gave me intenser delight than the visit I paid to these craft as they were all built and then taken to pieces for transit to their destination in packages that any motor car could have transported.
The world at large can have little conception of the remarkability of those comparatively large hulls with good speed and practically drawing but a few inches of water—the propellers (which were too large in diameter for the depth of water) being made by an ingenious device to revolve in a well above the water-line, the water being drawn up by suction. I thought to myself as I viewed these miracles of ingenuity and rapidity: “England can never succumb.”
CHAPTER XVI
THINGS THAT PLEASE ME
“I have culled a Garland of Flowers—
Mine is the string that binds them.”
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Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive!
(When catching Submarines).
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