As the German light cruisers sped past, two able seamen, (French and Bailey,) who alone had survived among the torpedo tubes' crews, on their own initiative laid and fired the remaining torpedo. French was killed immediately and Bailey badly wounded. Realizing that the enemy had passed ahead, and that the four-inch gun could no longer be brought to bear on them, the Captain went below and set about destroying his ciphers. The First Lieutenant, (Lieutenant Bavin,) seeing one of the light cruisers returning toward them, called the gunner (Mr. Handcock) and bade him sink the ship. The Captain then came on deck and gave the order "Abandon ship." All the boats had been shattered by shellfire at their davits, but the survivors launched a Carley raft and paddled clear of the ship. The German light cruiser detailed to administer the coup de grace then approached to within 300 yards and poured a succession of salvos into the already riddled hull. The Mary Rose sank at 7:15 A. M. with colors flying. The Captain, First Lieutenant, and gunner were lost with the ship, but the handful of survivors, in charge of Sub-Lieutenant J. R. D. Freeman, on the Carley raft, fell in some hours later with a lifeboat belonging to one of the ships of the convoy. Sailing and rowing, they made the Norwegian coast some forty-eight hours later, and were tended with the utmost kindness by the Norwegian authorities. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Obvious errors of punctuation and diacritics repaired. Hyphen removed: breech[-]blocks (p. 356). Hyphen added: ocean[-]going (p. 346). Contents: CHRCHMAN's changed to CHURCHMAN's (GERMAN CHURCHMAN'S DEFENSE OF POISON GAS). p. 200: "hyopthetical" changed to "hypothetical" (a hypothetical straight line of fifty miles). p. 201: "Grivenes" changed to "Grivesnes" (two villages near Grivesnes, driving out the French). p. 205: "Friedrichafen" changed to "Friedrichshafen" (airdrome at Friedrichshafen on April 15). p. 207: "self-sacrifce" changed to "self-sacrifice" (self-sacrifice of our troops). p. 227: "Mauvitz" changed to "Marvitz" (von Below, von der Marwitz, and von Hutier). p. 229: "wringled" changed to "wrinkled" (of age, with her white, wrinkled face). p. 233: "inititative" changed to "initiative" (on his own initiative). p. 234: "Conmmander" changed to "Commander" (his appointment as Commander in Chief). p. 242: "asumed" changed to "assumed" (he assumed command of the group). p. 256: "Sugeon" changed to "Surgeon" (Surgeon General's office). p. 263: "inportant" changed to "important" (delivered an important address). p. 266: "reinforecements" changed to "reinforcements" (to hurry up reinforcements). p. 273: "indepedent" changed to "independent" (a great self-conscious nation independent). p. 279: "writen" changed to "written" (a book written since the beginning of the war). p. 279: "goverment" changed to "government" (system of government).