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CONTENTS

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UNDER THE PERISCOPE[1]
PATROL[3]
THE MOTHERS[45]
EMPTY SADDLES[47]
THE BOGIE MAN[67]
‘EXERCISE ATTACKS’[69]
NEPTUNE AND BRITANNIA[103]
PERSONNEL[105]
THE DOCKYARD[145]
‘SURVEY AND DEMAND’[147]
ACTION[191]
THE REAL THING[193]
THE SEAGULLS[231]
‘FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA’[233]

UNDER THE PERISCOPE

I

We know the ships of Carthage,

We know how history speaks,

We know the Roman galleys,

The triremes of the Greeks.

We know the cogs and frigates,