["'Aim low, sonny! Aim low! You will see your bullet-splashes'"] . . . Frontispiece

["The Gunnery Lieutenant now flew about, jumping from voice pipes to range-finder and back again"]

["The Lamp-post jumped up, seized the box, hoisted it on his shoulder, and disappeared ahead"]

["'Look! what an extraordinary ship!'"]

["Screened lanterns!"]

[The Gun-room Court Martial on the China Doll]

[Sketch Map of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles]

A NAVAL VENTURE

CHAPTER I

The "Achates" goes to Sea