MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS.

CHAP.
I. [CONCERNING SUB-LIEUTENANT DACRES]
II. [THE FRENCH INSTRUCTOR]
III. [REMOVED FROM THE NAVY LIST]
IV. [THE MYSTERIOUS AIRSHIP]
V. [A MOMENTOUS TRAIN JOURNEY]
VI. [CHALLENGED]
VII. [THE RETURN OF THE AIRSHIP]
VIII. [WHITTINGHAME'S NARRATIVE]
IX. [THE FLIGHT TO LONDON]
X. [THE STOLEN PLANS]
XI. [THE "METEOR"]
XII. [THE "METEOR'S" DEBUT]
XIII. [AN OFFICIAL AND AN UNOFFICIAL INSPECTION]
XIV. [ACROSS GREENLAND]
XV. [THE NORTH POLE]
XVI. [IN THE NICK OF TIME]
XVII. [ZAYPURU'S BOLD STROKE]
XVIII. [THE DISASTER TO THE "LIBERTAD"]
XIX. [INVESTIGATING THE WRECK]
XX. [A HAZARDOUS PROPOSAL]
XXI. [WITHIN THE CAVARALE PRISON]
XXII. [DACRES REMINDS THE ADMIRAL]
XXIII. [LOCOMOTIVE VERSUS AEROPLANE]
XXIV. [A BRUSH WITH THE INDIANS]
XXV. [THE CAPTURE OF THE CAVARALE]
XXVI. [UNABLE TO RISE]
XXVII. [PREPARING FOR THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT]
XXVIII. [A PRISONER OF WAR]
XXIX. [WORK FOR THE SEAPLANES]
XXX. [THE FALL OF NAOCUANHA]
XXXI. [A SURPRISE FOR DACRES]
XXXII. [A SUBMARINE ENCOUNTER]
XXXIII. [NEWS OF DURANGO]
XXXIV. [THE CHASE]
XXXV. [THE THUNDERSTORM]
XXXVI. [THE ABANDONED FLYING-BOAT]
XXXVII. [THE GALAPAGOS FISHERMEN]
XXXVIII. [CORNERED]
XXXIX. [DACRES' PROMOTION]

THE DREADNOUGHT

OF THE AIR.

CHAPTER I.

CONCERNING SUB-LIEUTENANT DACRES.

IT was Thursday afternoon—Make and Mend Clothes Day as it is known in the Royal Navy. H.M.S. "Royal Oak," a Super-Dreadnought now relegated to the second class, lay at moorings off Singapore. Two cables' length ahead of her swung her sister ship the "Repulse," flying the flag of Admiral Maynebrace commanding the Special Squadron, now on a cruise round the world in order to display the White Ensign in foreign waters as a gentle reminder to petty potentates that the British Lion's tail could not be twisted with impunity.

The heat was terrific. The sun's scorching rays beat down with relentless violence upon the white awnings that shrouded the warships from bow to stern. The glare, reflected from the oily sea, seemed to penetrate everywhere on board in spite of electric fans and the latest type of ventilators. Officers and men, used though they were to the heat of the Tropics, were reduced to a state of perspiring listlessness. Alacrity seemed for the time being no longer the characteristic of the British seamen. One and all they barely existed in Nature's stew-pan and waited for the sun to set.