There was Andrew Copassaki, chief boatswain's mate, for instance, who was transferred from the battleship _Arkansas_ to take charge of the gun crew of the steamship _Moreni_. He commanded this crew when the _Moreni_ was sunk by a German submarine on the morning of June 12. This gun crew put up a fight on the deck of that sinking vessel which was so gallant as to elicit words of praise from the commander of the attacking submarine. Copassaki, when the ship was in flames, from shellfire, rushed through the fire to the forward gun and continued to serve it against the submarine until the gun was put completely out of commission. This gallant hero was born in Greece, and had been in the navy twenty years. Then there was Harry Waterhouse, a chief turret captain, transferred from the dreadnought _New York_ to command the armed crew of the _Petrolite_ which was sunk by a U-boat on June 10. The vessel sank so rapidly after being torpedoed that the guns could not be used. The navy men, however, under the command of Waterhouse, assisted in getting out the boats and lowering them and getting the crew to safety, to a man--although the _Petrolite_ went over on her beam ends in less than a minute. No member of the armed guard left the sinking vessel until ordered to do so by Waterhouse. These are but a few of the instances of signal gallantry which have filled the records of our navy since we entered the war. And while our merchant crews were thus at work the navy was busy sending soldiers to the other side. Not a mishap had occurred on the eastbound traffic--and at this writing none has yet occurred--but on October 17, the transport _Antilles_, which had made several safe journeys with soldiers destined for General Pershing's expeditionary forces, was torpedoed and sunk when homeward bound with a loss of 70 lives out of 237 men on board. The transport was sunk while under the convoy of American naval patrol-vessels, and she had on board the usual armed gun crew. Not only was the _Antilles_ the first American Army transport to be lost in the present war, but she was the first vessel under American convoy to be successfully attacked. She was well out to sea at the time and the convoy of protecting vessels was smaller for this reason, and for the fact that she was westbound, carrying no troops. The submarine was never seen and neither was the torpedo. There has been rumor that the explosion that sank her came from the inside, but so far as any one knows this is merely port gossip of such nature as arises when vessels are lost. Our second transport to be lost was the _President Lincoln_, taken over from the Germans when war was declared. She, too, was eastbound, well out to sea, and the loss of life was small. The third was the _Covington_, formerly the German liner _Cincinnati_, which was torpedoed in the early summer of this year while on her way to an American port.