item: #1 of 29
          id: 12776
      author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
       title: Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz: Fighting with the U.S. Navy in Mexico
        date: None
       words: 48091
      flesch: 82
     summary: Ensign Dave Darrin was first to step ashore, signing to his men to follow him with all stealth. Then the sailor nearest Ensign Dave Darrin fell to the ground with a stifled gasp.
    keywords: american; cantor; captain; commander; cosetta; dalzell; dan; darrin; dave; dave darrin; ensign; ensign darrin; fire; gales; good; hand; house; launch; lieutenant; lieutenant cantor; lieutenant trent; man; men; mexican; navy; night; officer; party; report; riley; sir; time; trent
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        item: #2 of 29
          id: 15749
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
        date: None
       words: 57429
      flesch: 46
     summary: But, with the strait, time has introduced a factor of which he could not dream,--a great nation midway between the West he knew and the East he sought, spanning the continent he unwittingly found, itself both East and West in one. There have been great wars, certainly; but, nevertheless, external peace has been the general characteristic of that period of development, during which men have been occupied in revolutionizing the face of their own countries by means of the new powers at their disposal.
    keywords: action; american; britain; british; caribbean; century; civilization; coast; commercial; conditions; control; country; european; force; future; general; importance; influence; interests; islands; isthmus; men; military; nations; naval; navy; pacific; people; point; policy; position; power; present; question; sea; states; strength; time; united; united states; war; world
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        item: #3 of 29
          id: 16602
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence
        date: None
       words: 97261
      flesch: 65
     summary: The possession of the bay facilitated the control of the neighbouring waters by British ships of war, besides giving them a base central for coastwise operations and independent of tidal considerations for entrance or exit. A false rumour, of French ships reaching Martinique from Europe, slightly delayed this movement.
    keywords: action; admiral; american; attack; battle; bay; british; close; command; convoy; course; d'estaing; day; east; enemy; fire; fleet; footnote; force; french; general; grasse; hood; howe; indies; island; lake; leeward; line; miles; naval; navy; new; north; operations; order; port; position; rear; rodney; sail; sea; ships; signal; sir; south; squadron; suffren; time; van; vessels; war; west; wind; windward; york
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        item: #4 of 29
          id: 16634
      author: Smith, Thorne
       title: Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit
        date: None
       words: 33813
      flesch: 85
     summary: Then they put a gun into your hand that is much too heavy for comfort and make you do all sorts of ridiculous things with this gun, after which you fall in with numerous thousands of other men who have been subjected to the same treatment, and together we all go trotting past any number of officers, who look you over with uncanny earnestness through eyes that seem to perceive the remotest defect with fiendish accuracy. He swept his razor around several times with a free-handed, blood-curdling swoop of his arm.
    keywords: arms; camp; course; day; days; eyes; fogerty; girl; good; hammock; home; illustration; lady; liberty; life; look; man; manner; moment; mother; night; officer; p.o; place; sailor; sir; sort; thing; thought; time; voice; way
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        item: #5 of 29
          id: 17056
      author: Durham, Victor G.
       title: The Submarine Boys and the Middies The Prize Detail at Annapolis
        date: None
       words: 48029
      flesch: 86
     summary: If I can, I think Mr. Jack Benson will find himself out of favor with his company, for his company will be out of favor with the Navy Department at Washington! CHAPTER XIV THE POLLARD GOES LAME The submarine boats when out in the Bay will keep abreast of the 'Hudson,' two hundred yards off on either beam. Conclusion CHAPTER I THE PRIZE DETAIL The United States Government doesn't appear very anxious to claim its property, does it, sir? asked Captain Jack Benson.
    keywords: benson; boat; boy; cadets; captain; captain jack; commander; craft; deck; eph; farnum; good; hal; hastings; jack; jack benson; lieutenant; man; mayhew; men; naval; night; officer; pollard; sam; sir; somers; submarine; time; truax; way
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        item: #6 of 29
          id: 17253
      author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
       title: Dewey and Other Naval Commanders
        date: None
       words: 69462
      flesch: 71
     summary: In the midst of the wild confusion a boat from the _Alabama_, under charge of the English master's mate, came alongside, announcing that the _Alabama_ had surrendered and begging for help. The iron prow of the _Merrimac_ crashed through the wooden walls of the _Cumberland_ as if they were cardboard, and, while her crew were still heroically working their guns, the _Cumberland_ went down, with the red flag, meaning no surrender, flying from her peak.
    keywords: admiral; american; attack; battle; board; boat; british; captain; captain jones; captain porter; capture; chapter; close; commander; commodore; country; crew; decatur; dewey; enemy; farragut; fight; fire; firing; flag; fleet; fort; frigate; general; good; guns; harbor; illustration; inch; jones; lieutenant; man; men; naval; navy; new; officers; porter; river; service; ship; shot; squadron; states; time; united; vessels; war; water; way; work; years
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        item: #7 of 29
          id: 17547
      author: Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen)
       title: The Navy as a Fighting Machine
        date: None
       words: 105058
      flesch: 51
     summary: But surely the foolishness of such an idea would promptly disappear from the brain of any one if he would remind himself that simply because a man joins the army or navy he does not cease to be a human being, with the same emotions of fear as other men, the same sensitiveness to pain, the same dread of death, and the same horror of leaving his family unsupported after his death. It seems clear that such a thing would be a national disaster, for any loss of money to one man always means a loss of money or its equivalent to other men besides.
    keywords: army; attack; base; battle; case; coast; country; course; defense; end; enemy; enemy fleet; fact; fleet; force; general; long; machine; man; material; means; men; military; nations; naval; navy; offensive; officers; operations; parts; people; personnel; plans; power; reason; sea; ships; skill; strategy; time; training; war; work; years; | b; | period; | |; | |damage; | |value
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        item: #8 of 29
          id: 18676
      author: Perry, Lawrence
       title: Our Navy in the War
        date: None
       words: 64519
      flesch: 65
     summary: The station, besides being used as a naval base for American submarines, destroyers, and other small craft, will serve as an important homing-station for our airplanes, a number of which have already been assembled there. In the meantime the German Government--which no doubt had not expected such drastic action on the part of the United States--was profoundly disturbed, and it was stated that crews of American merchantmen who ventured to fire upon German submarines before a state of war existed between the two countries must expect to meet the fate of the British merchant captain, Charles Fryatt, who as will be recalled, was tried and executed in Germany for attempting to ram the German submarine 7-33 with his vessel, the Great Eastern Railway steamship, _Brussels_, in July of 1916.
    keywords: admiral; american; american navy; atlantic; battle; board; boat; british; captain; coast; commander; convoy; country; course; craft; crew; daniels; day; days; deck; destroyers; enemy; fact; fighting; fleet; forth; france; german; great; gun; guns; line; marines; men; merchant; months; naval; navy; navy department; navy men; new; number; officers; patrol; periscope; port; sea; secretary; service; ships; states; states navy; station; submarine; surface; time; tons; torpedo; united; united states; vessels; war; water; way; work; year; | |
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        item: #9 of 29
          id: 19058
      author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance
       title: Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
        date: None
       words: 152045
      flesch: 84
     summary: | E | H | I | E | F | J | ------------+-----------------------------+----+----+--------+---+---+---+ |Boat-Carriage, complete | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 |-- |-- | |Field-Carriage, complete | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | | | | Ammunition-Chests |Either one or all,| | | | | (various in size |as the nature of | | | | | & contents) | ON RIGHT SIDE OF GUN.
    keywords: + |; ---------+--------------+ |; -| |; 3rd| |; arms |; b. |; bore |; boxes |; broadside |; class |; complements |; inch |; lbs.| |; mates |; no.| |; pounder |; proportion |; revolvers |; set.| |; sets.| |; stewards |; | +; | ------------+-----------+-----+-----+-----+-----+; | -----------------------------+----+-----+----+-----+----+-----+----+-----+; | ------------------------------+----+----+----+---+----+----+----+---+; | ------------------------------+----------+-------+---------+; | --continued; | -|; | 1ea; | 3|; | boat; | bolts; | breechings; | buckets; | canister; | caps; | cartridges; | chocks; | classes; | col; | field; | fireworks; | fuze; | gun; | guns; | howitzer; | inches; | lanterns; | lock; | names; | number; | packing; | pistols; | pivot; | powder; | primers; | razees; | rifle; | screw; | shell; | shot; | shrapnel; | sights; | sponge; | stmr; | tackles; | vent; | weight; | yards; | |; | |calibre; | |each; | |gunner; | |magazine; |brigs.| |; ° |
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        item: #10 of 29
          id: 21562
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.
        date: None
       words: 87273
      flesch: 65
     summary: | Tons.|Guns.| | rifled.
    keywords: action; admiral; army; attack; bank; batteries; battery; captain; city; commander; confederate; day; enemy; et seq; fire; flag; fleet; force; fort; general; gulf; gunboats; guns; inch; left; lieutenant; light; line; men; miles; mississippi; navy; new; officer; point; port; position; ram; river; ship; shot; squadron; stream; tennessee; time; transports; troops; union; vessels; vicksburg; war; water; way; west; work; yards; yazoo; | |
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        item: #11 of 29
          id: 22431
      author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
       title: Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service; or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty
        date: None
       words: 51238
      flesch: 83
     summary: Ensign Dave Darrin, overhearing that conversation, and well knowing that he was listening to more than vaporing, felt his face blanch. I take it, sir, that your secret service men will make every effort to find out what Gortchky does in Paris, and for what real purpose he is here, and-- Here Ensign Dave Darrin broke off abruptly, coloring deeply.
    keywords: admiral; american; barnes; boys; british; captain; chapter; count; dalny; dalzell; dan; darrin; dave; dave darrin; ensign; ensign darrin; face; fellow; good; gortchky; grin; hand; launch; lieutenant; man; men; money; monsieur; naval; night; officers; paris; runkle; sir; submarine; surigny; time; timworth; way
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        item: #12 of 29
          id: 23036
      author: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
       title: Dave Darrin After the Mine Layers; Or, Hitting the Enemy a Hard Naval Blow
        date: None
       words: 52045
      flesch: 86
     summary: When the Grigsby put out to sea before daylight Dave Darrin lay asleep. Frontispiece_] Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers OR Hitting the Enemy a Hard Naval Blow By H. IRVING HANCOCK Author of Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz, Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service, Dave Darrin's South American Cruise, Dave Darrin on the Asiatic Station, Dave Darrin and the German Submarines, etc., etc. Illustrated P H I L A D E L P H I A HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY HOWARD E. ALTEMUS CONTENTS CHAPTER I--WEIGHING ANCHOR FOR THE GREAT CRUISE 11 Dan is a business man.
    keywords: boys; bridge; british; captain; chapter; course; craft; crew; dalzell; dan; darrin; dave; dave darrin; deck; destroyer; enemy; fernald; german; good; grigsby; hand; kennor; lieutenant; men; mines; ober; officer; port; sea; ship; sir; speed; submarine; time; water; way; woman; work
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        item: #13 of 29
          id: 23601
      author: Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
       title: The U-boat hunters
        date: None
       words: 54516
      flesch: 86
     summary: Our navy to-day is made up of good ships and capable, courageous, hard-working officers and men. The habit of most officers is to rate up good men in their divisions as fast as vacancies will permit.
    keywords: air; boat; bridge; british; course; crew; day; deck; destroyer; doc; feet; fellows; good; gun; guns; high; left; let; life; like; look; man; men; morning; naval; navy; night; officer; people; port; room; sea; ship; sir; skipper; steamer; submarine; things; thought; time; war; watch; water; way; white; work
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        item: #14 of 29
          id: 25911
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 140835
      flesch: 55
     summary: Of the entire import of that year only 28 per cent, in money value, came from Europe; the carriage of the remaining 72 per cent was confined to British ships. When those countries were part of our plantations, a great portion of our produce was transported to Great Britain and our West India Islands in American bottoms; they had a share in the freight of sugars from those islands to Great Britain; they built annually more than one hundred ships, which were employed in the carrying trade of Great Britain; but since the Independence of those states, since their ships have been excluded from our plantations, and that trade is wholly confined to British ships, we have gained that share of our carrying trade from which they are now excluded.
    keywords: act; action; american; american state; american vessels; britain; british; british commerce; canada; carrying; case; colonial; colonies; commerce; conditions; congress; council; country; course; day; effect; embargo; enemy; england; english; europe; force; foreign; france; french; general; government; great; hull; ibid; iii; impressment; indies; intercourse; jefferson; law; letter; madison; measures; military; minister; monroe; napoleon; national; naval; navigation; navy; new; orders; papers; policy; ports; power; relations; right; seamen; secretary; shipping; ships; states government; system; time; trade; united states; vessels; vol; war; west; years
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        item: #15 of 29
          id: 25912
      author: Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
       title: Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 156932
      flesch: 60
     summary: _Prizes_ taken by Americans in first three months of war, and in what localities taken, i. 394-395; taken by British in same period, 399-400; at later period of war, 406; transition period of prize-taking, January-June, 1813, ii. 20; estimate of relative losses by the two belligerents, 21-22; compilation of lists, by Niles' Register, 22; overlooked significance of the greater British losses, 23, 221; limited success of American frigates in taking, to what attributable, 216; taken by American cruisers, in latter part of war, 220-221; in West Indies, 230; total number taken throughout the war, by American naval vessels, and by privateers, 241-243. _Proclamation._ Commerce between Great Britain and America, regulated by, 1783-1794, i. 67-70; issued by Jefferson excluding British armed vessels from American waters, after Chesapeake affair, 160-161; Royal, directing commanders of British naval vessels to impress British-born seamen found in foreign merchant ships, and denying efficacy of naturalization papers to discharge from allegiance, 166; by Jefferson, against combinations to defy Embargo laws, 207; by Madison, permitting renewal of trade with Great Britain, 219, and withdrawn, 219; by Madison, announcing revocation of Napoleon's Decrees, 238. _ The brunt of the British naval operations falls upon the Chesapeake and Delaware 26 CHAPTER X CAMPAIGN OF 1813 ON THE LAKE FRONTIER, TO THE BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE The British naval service on the lakes under Warren's supervision 28 Sir James Yeo appointed to the local command 29 Appoints Captain Barclay to take charge of British vessels on Lake Erie 29 The Americans now superior on Ontario 29 Montreal the true American objective 29 Dearborn ordered to concentrate effort upon Lake Ontario 30 Chauncey's first plan, to capture Kingston 30 Dearborn and Chauncey ordered to proceed first against Kingston, then Toronto, then Niagara 31 Dearborn's objections 32 His reports obtain change of plan from the Government 33 Chauncey's new plan 33 The expedition leaves Sackett's Harbor 36 Capture of Toronto 36 Chauncey's anxiety for Sackett's Harbor 37 Capture of Fort George, and British retreat from Niagara 38 Effects of the American occupation of the Niagara peninsula 40 American naval vessels escape from Black Rock to Erie 41 British attack upon Sackett's Harbor 42 Premature firing of the naval yard and vessels 45 Consequent delay in Chauncey's preparations 45 Yeo takes the lake with his squadron 46 American reverse at Stony Creek 46
    keywords: action; american; army; attack; august; battle; bay; blockade; britain; british; british squadron; brown; canada; captain; capture; chauncey; chesapeake; coast; command; commander; commerce; conditions; course; day; effect; end; enemy; erie; fleet; force; fort; frigate; general; government; great; guns; harbor; july; june; kingston; lake; lawrence; left; letters; line; men; miles; military; naval; navy; new; niagara; north; officer; operations; peace; perry; point; position; president; register; report; river; sackett; sea; secretary; ship; squadron; states; time; trade; troops; united; united states; vessels; vol; war; west; wind; yeo; york
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        item: #16 of 29
          id: 26778
      author: Goldfrap, John Henry
       title: The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Naval Code
        date: None
       words: 47001
      flesch: 90
     summary: But at last Jack, by dint of feeling softly along the walls, located it. But at last Jack mustered up courage and looked up.
    keywords: billy; boat; boys; captain; code; curlew; day; donald; door; eyes; face; good; great; guess; head; house; jack; jarrow; judson; lad; life; look; man; men; motor; noddy; raynor; ready; right; room; saw; ship; simms; thought; thurman; time; voice; water; way; wireless; work
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        item: #17 of 29
          id: 32273
      author: None
       title: Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read
        date: None
       words: 63187
      flesch: 90
     summary: In July, 1769, a British armed sloop, the _Liberty_, brought in two prizes as smugglers. They had no smuggled goods on board, but the officers of the _Liberty_ did not care for that.
    keywords: american; battle; board; boats; british; captain; chapter; decatur; deck; fight; fire; flag; fleet; frigate; good; great; guns; harbor; iron; jones; man; men; navy; new; porter; river; sailors; sea; set; ship; shot; story; tell; time; vessels; war; water; way; work
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        item: #18 of 29
          id: 32886
      author: Patchin, Frank Gee
       title: The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward; Or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers
        date: None
       words: 47165
      flesch: 90
     summary: Seaman Dan Davis and Sam Hickey will hereafter act as gun pointers in number four turret, said the gun captain. Dan held to his man, knowing full well that, were his adversary to get the upper hand now, it would go hard with Dan Davis.
    keywords: aye; battleship; boat; boy; captain; course; crew; dan; davis; deck; good; gun; head; hickey; lad; man; men; officer; red; right; sam; seaman; ship; sir; time; torpedo; watch; water; way
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        item: #19 of 29
          id: 41396
      author: Soley, James Russell
       title: The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes
        date: None
       words: 80536
      flesch: 70
     summary: To understand the feeling, we must look back at the twenty years during which American ships and American seamen had suffered repeated outrage at the hands of British ships-of-war,--outrage which had been borne only because the young country felt too weak to cope with those forces which had conquered all the navies of the Continent. What American ships could do in battle, Captain Hull had now shown; and the hopes of the country were aroused, and it began with reason to look for fresh successes.
    keywords: american; attack; battle; board; british; captain; coast; command; commodore; constitution; crew; cruise; day; days; decatur; deck; enemy; english; essex; fell; fight; fire; fleet; force; frigate; good; guns; harbor; jones; lieutenant; little; men; moment; naval; navy; new; officers; port; sail; sea; ship; shot; sloop; squadron; states; time; united; vessels; war; way; wind; work; years
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        item: #20 of 29
          id: 42940
      author: Patchin, Frank Gee
       title: The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service; or, Earning New Ratings in European Seas
        date: None
       words: 38783
      flesch: 91
     summary: They had seen only Dan Davis and Sam Hickey, who now presented a most disreputable appearance. Are you Monsieur Dan Davis?
    keywords: battleship; boys; captain; dan; dan davis; davis; deck; door; eyes; good; head; hickey; lads; long; look; man; men; officer; place; red; right; room; sam; ship; sir; time; voice; way
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        item: #21 of 29
          id: 45900
      author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
       title: Record of Medals of Honor issued to the officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, 1862-1923
        date: None
       words: 45747
      flesch: 77
     summary: Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, U.S.S. _Ticonderoga_, for personal valor as captain of a gun at Fort Fisher, 1864 to 1865. ISAAC N. FRY. Orderly sergeant, United States Marine Corps, U.S.S. _Ticonderoga_, in the attacks on Fort Fisher January 13 to 15, 1865.
    keywords: action; april; attack; august; batteries; battle; bay; board; boat; bravery; captain; class; conduct; coolness; corps; crew; cuba; december; drowning; enemy; engagement; fire; fort; g.o; gun; heroism; january; john; july; june; marine; mate; mobile; navy; new; october; presence; seaman; service; ship; states; time; u.s.s; united; united states; vessel; william; wounded
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        item: #22 of 29
          id: 46406
      author: Seawell, Molly Elliot
       title: Twelve Naval Captains Being a Record of Certain Americans Who Made Themselves Immortal
        date: None
       words: 54918
      flesch: 69
     summary: During those years a singular and unsatisfactory state of affairs existed for American ships on the ocean. Bainbridge invited him into the cabin, and feeling sure that he had orders to capture American ships, directed him to produce these orders.
    keywords: american; bainbridge; boat; british; captain; command; commodore; constitution; dale; day; decatur; deck; fight; french; frigate; guns; hull; jones; lawrence; lieutenant; little; macdonough; man; men; navy; officers; paul; paul jones; philadelphia; preble; sea; ship; shot; somers; squadron; states; stewart; time; united; vessel; war; years
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        item: #23 of 29
          id: 47776
      author: Goldfrap, John Henry
       title: The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice
        date: None
       words: 57092
      flesch: 82
     summary: Not one of them, however, dreamed of but one issue to the battle and that was that Ned Strong was in for a terrible thrashing; but, as the seconds slipped by, and several blows had been exchanged between the two, it began to appear that Ned was not going to prove such an easy prey as had at first seemed manifest. There was a taunting note in the words that made Ned wheel angrily.
    keywords: arms; boat; boys; captain; day; deck; door; dreadnought; eyes; face; good; gun; hand; hank; herc; inventor; jackies; kennell; lad; lads; look; man; manhattan; men; mind; minutes; navy; ned; new; officer; place; pulsifer; red; right; sea; ship; sir; strong; thought; time; tom; turret; varian; voice; water; way; work; young
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        item: #24 of 29
          id: 52637
      author: Goldfrap, John Henry
       title: The Dreadnought Boys on Aero Service
        date: None
       words: 43651
      flesch: 87
     summary: But once more Ned was ready for him. Strong--Ned Strong, rejoined Ned.
    keywords: aeroplane; air; board; boys; cabin; chance; chapter; door; dreadnought; eyes; face; good; hand; herc; herr; instant; kennell; lad; long; machine; man; manhattan; men; merritt; muller; navy; ned; officer; place; sam; sir; sloop; strong; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; work
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        item: #25 of 29
          id: 54496
      author: Goldfrap, John Henry
       title: The Dreadnought Boys in Home Waters
        date: None
       words: 47381
      flesch: 85
     summary: What appears to be the trouble, Herc? Oh, it's all right, Ned, rejoined the younger of the Dreadnought Boys, turning to his cousin, Ned Strong. You look like an officer, Ned, he went on a few moments later, as, pausing in his own preparations, he gazed at the trim, natty figure of Ned Strong.
    keywords: boat; boys; captain; chapter; command; craft; door; dreadnought; eyes; face; fleet; good; hand; head; herc; instant; island; jap; kenworth; look; man; men; midshipman; motor; navy; ned; new; orders; place; red; right; saki; seneca; ship; sir; sound; strong; thought; time; water; way; work; young
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        item: #26 of 29
          id: 60196
      author: Beston, Henry
       title: Full Speed Ahead: Tales from the Log of a Correspondent with Our Navy
        date: None
       words: 46114
      flesch: 80
     summary: Like unto their officers, submarine sailors are an unusual lot. [Illustration: American destroyer on patrol] The destroyer is the capital weapon against the submarine.
    keywords: air; american; bay; boat; bridge; british; captain; coast; convoy; crew; dark; day; deck; depth; destroyer; fish; fleet; going; good; grey; instant; kind; land; left; life; line; london; man; men; morning; navy; night; number; officers; patrol; place; port; room; round; sailor; sea; second; service; ship; submarine; surface; time; torpedo; vessel; war; watch; water; way; white; wind; world
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        item: #27 of 29
          id: 61481
      author: Shurtleff, Bertrand
       title: Silence is—Deadly
        date: None
       words: 10772
      flesch: 83
     summary: Commander Curtis shrugged good-naturedly and reached for the instrument. Its white glare shone for a moment in Curtis' face, and the familiar voice of Ensign Jack Dillon spoke: Commander Curtis!
    keywords: androka; brandt; comerford; commander; convoy; cruiser; curtis; eyes; face; lexington; nelson; radio; ship; silence; sir; voice
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        item: #28 of 29
          id: 63124
      author: Henderson, Daniel
       title: Pirate Princes and Yankee Jacks Setting forth David Forsyth's Adventures in America's Battles on Sea and Desert with the Buccaneer Princes of Barbary, with an Account of a Search under the Sands of the Sahara Desert for the Treasure-filled Tomb of Ancient Kings
        date: None
       words: 62164
      flesch: 82
     summary: Mustapha followed suit with another, and the rector, good man, dragged the third sack to a wagon I had hired. We older men can take care of ourselves, but you've had no experience with men.
    keywords: alexander; algiers; american; arabs; bainbridge; barbary; bashaw; board; camels; captain; christian; city; commodore; crew; day; decatur; deck; derne; desert; dey; eaton; eyes; fire; frigate; general; girl; good; guns; hamet; hand; joseph; macwilliams; man; mate; mediterranean; men; murad; mustapha; navy; officers; people; place; rector; reuben; sailors; sea; ship; shore; sight; states; thought; time; treasure; tripoli; united; vessel; water; way
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        item: #29 of 29
          id: 9104
      author: Roosevelt, Theodore
       title: The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
        date: None
       words: 162599
      flesch: 71
     summary: She had already hove overboard the sheet-anchor, several heavy spare spars, and a large quantity of shot and ballast; the remaining anchors and cables, more shot, six guns, and the launch now followed suit, and, thus relieved, the _Hornet_ passed temporarily out of danger; but the breeze shifted gradually round to the east, and the liner came looming up till at noon she was within a mile, a shorter range than that at which the _United States_ crippled and cut up the _Macedonian_; and had the _Cornwallis'_ fire been half as well aimed as that of the _States_, it would have been the last of the _Hornet_. Dropping Astern _Constitution_ vs. _Guerrière_: She Fell in the Sea _Wasp_ vs. _
    keywords: account; action; afterward; american; attack; battle; board; boats; brig; british; broadside; captain; carronades; case; chauncy; chesapeake; close; commodore; constitution; course; crew; cut; day; deck; enemy; english; essex; fight; fire; footnote; force; french; frigate; general; george; good; great; guerrière; guns; half; hornet; hull; james; java; lake; lawrence; lbs; left; letter; lieutenant; line; loss; main; man; master; men; naval; navy; new; number; officers; peacock; port; porter; pound; president; quarter; sail; seamen; ships; shot; sir; squadron; starboard; states; superior; time; tons; united; vessels; victory; war; wasp; water; way; wind; wounded; yeo
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