IT was half-past eight on a May morning. The sun was obscured in a dense haze that the light south-westerly breeze failed to disperse. Spithead lay enshrouded in the sea-fog, while from the deck of H.M. torpedo-boat destroyer _Frome_ neither the low-lying land upon which Portsmouth is built nor the undulating downs of the Isle of Wight were visible.…
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