[Illustration: cover (front)] [Illustration: cover (spine)] SEA SCOUTS ABROAD BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN LIEUT. R.A.F. "No boy alive will be able to peruse Mr. Westerman's pages without a quickening of his pulses."--Outlook. The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate Story. Sea Scouts Abroad: Further Adventures of the _Olivette_. The Salving of the "Fusi Yama": A Post-War Story of the Sea. Sea Scouts All: How the _Olivette_ was won. Winning his Wings: A Story of the R.A.F. The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge: April, 1918. With Beatty off Jutland: A Romance of the Great Sea Fight. The Submarine Hunters: A Story of Naval Patrol Work. A Lively Bit of the Front: A Tale of the New Zealand Rifles on the Western Front. A Sub and a Submarine: The Story of H.M. Submarine R19 in the Great War. Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War. The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists with the Belgian Forces. The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland. Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War. The Fight for Constantinople: A Tale of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Captured at Tripoli: A Tale of Adventure. The Quest of the "Golden Hope": A Seventeenth-century Story of Adventure. A Lad of Grit: A Story of Restoration Times. LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. [Illustration: WITHOUT HESITATION WOODLEIGH LEAPED INTO THE SEA] SEA SCOUTS ABROAD Further Adventures of the "Olivette" BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN _Illustrated by Charles Pears_ BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY Contents CHAP. I. AFLOAT ONCE MORE II. STOLEN III. A REAL GOOD TURN IV. REPAYMENT V. TRAPPED BY THE TIDE VI. WHY THE WATER FAILED VII. THE NEW HAND VIII. THE STOWAWAY IX. BROKEN DOWN IN MID-CHANNEL X. ALAN SPEAKS FRENCH XI. "WOUNDED" XII. "IN THE DITCH" XIII. THE BORE XIV. THE DERELICT XV. ALL HANDS TO THE PUMPS XVI. THE ADVENTURES OF THE "LIBERTY MEN" XVII. MONSIEUR RAOUL XVIII. SHORE QUARTERS XIX. HOMEWARD BOUND XX. HOME WATERS AGAIN Illustrations WITHOUT HESITATION WOODLEIGH LEAPED INTO THE SEA _Frontispiece_ "SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE!" SHOUTED RIVETT THE HIGH-PRESSURE JET CAUGHT THE TENDERFOOT FULL IN THE FACE (missing from book) THE DERELICT (missing from book) SEA SCOUTS ABROAD CHAPTER I Afloat Once More "To-morrow the tide serves," declared Patrol Leader Peter Stratton, stepping back a few paces in order to admire the joint handiwork of the 1st Milford Sea Scouts. "We'll launch her while the compo's wet. That's the right thing, I believe."