"… I had a Midshipman up with me as observer—aged 16 and 4 months precisely…. Those machines scared the Arabs badly…."
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"… Just a sharpened bayonet. You slung it round your neck when you were swimming…. Only had to use it once … nasty sticky job. No joke either, crawling about naked on your belly in the dark…."
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"… We had a fellow chipping the ice away from the conning-tower hatch all the time we were on the surface, 'case we had to close down quick. I tell you, it was Hell, that cold! …"
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"… Five seconds after we had fired our torpedo a shell hit the tube and blew it to smithereens. A near thing, I give you my word…."
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A Lieutenant-Commander appeared at the doorway from the smoking-room.
"There will be an exhibition bout next," he shouted, "and then the final of the Light-weights!" A general move ensued on to the upper deck.