[19]. 21st February, 1917.

[20]. An Englishman, who started the famous engineering works in Belgium at Seraing at the early age of twenty-seven.

[21]. By the English-Speaking Union, 11th October, 1918.

[22]. See ante, pp. 35–38.

[23]. I have dealt with the loss of the three cruisers and of the Formidable at much greater length in Stirring Deeds of Britain’s Sea-dogs, pp. 159–174, 292–302.

[24]. Now Admiral Lord Beresford.

[25]. Italy was then a neutral.

[26]. We should call S 126 a destroyer, but the term is unknown in the German Navy. All vessels of the type are dubbed torpedo-boats, irrespective of size.

[27]. See post, p. 297.

[28]. More detailed particulars will be found in my Daring Deeds of Merchant Seamen, p. 221, and Stirring Deeds of Britain’s Sea-dogs, p. 275.