[Illustration: “The torpedo must have struck her forward.... She seemed to be sinking fast.” These stories were not originally written with a view to their ultimate reappearance in book form, and most of them were written some while ago. “Tubby’s Dhow” was first published in Herbert Strang’s _Annual for Boys_; “The Stranding of the _Hoi-Hau_,” “The Salvage of the _Cashmere_” and “The Luck of the _Tavy_,” in the _Scout_; “The Gunner’s Luck,” in the _Weekly Telegraph_; “The Inner Patrol,” in the _Royal Magazine_; “Horatio Nelson Chivers” and “The Escape of the _Speedwell_,” in the _British Boys’ Annual_ (Messrs. Cassell & Co., Ltd.), and “The Gun-runners,” in the _St. George’s Magazine_. I wi…
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