The U-boat hunters

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01 - NAVY SHIPS
13:32
02 - NAVY MEN
13:44
03 - SEEING THEM ACROSS
15:53
04 - THE U-BOATS APPEAR
24:25
05 - CROSSING THE CHANNEL
21:46
06 - THE CENSORS
17:10
07 - ONE THEY DIDN'T GET
17:59
08 - THE DOCTOR TAKES CHARGE
21:37
09 - THE 343 STAYS UP
16:58
10 - THE CARGO BOATS
18:03
11 - FLOTILLA HUMOR - AT SEA
16:47
12 - FLOTILLA HUMOR - ASHORE
16:23
13 - THE UNQUENCHABLE DESTROYER BOYS
21:20
14 - THE MARINES HAVE LANDED
20:51
15 - THE NAVY AS A CAREER
21:12
16 - THE SEA BABIES
28:53

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James B. Connolly, a writer known for his sea stories, turned to the United States Navy in this 1918 book about the destroyers and crews who hunted German submarines during the First World War. His foreword argues that the navy is the country's first line of defence and that young men should take an interest in it.

The opening chapter describes a great fleet review, with the President on the Mayflower and fifty ships firing salutes in turn. From there Connolly goes to sea with the convoys and the destroyer flotillas: crossing the Channel, the wartime censors, cargo boats, and a vivid account of the 343, a destroyer that lost its stern to a torpedo yet kept turning in circles on one shaft while the crew waited to see if the submarine would return.

Chapters on flotilla humor at sea and ashore, the Marines, the navy as a career and the workings of a submarine round out a lively, first-hand picture of naval life in 1917 and 1918.

About the author

James B. Connolly

James Brendan Connolly (1868–1957) was a South Boston writer and athlete of Irish Catholic stock who became the first champion of the modern Olympic Games, winning the triple jump at Athens in 1896. He left Harvard to compete, later served in the Spanish-American War, and then built a long career writing about the sea.