Transcriber’s Note: Italics is indicated by _underscores_; boldface is indicated by =equals signs=. [Illustration: “Whose crew abandoned ship and then all stood up and cursed us.”] SUBMARINE AND ANTI-SUBMARINE BY HENRY NEWBOLT AUTHOR OF ‘THE BOOK OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR,’ ‘TALES OF THE GREAT WAR,’ ETC. WITH A COLOURED FRONTISPIECE AND 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY NORMAN WILKINSON, R.I. NEW YORK: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS 1919 TO JOHN BUCHAN CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE SPIRIT OF SUBMARINE WAR 1 II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SUBMARINE 10 III. THE SUBMARINE OF TO-DAY 36 IV. A BRITISH SUBMARINE BASE 52 V. SUBMARINES AND WAR POLICY 68 VI. SUBMARINE _v._ WAR-SHIP 78 VII. WAR-SHIP _v._ SUBMARINE 95 VIII. BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE BALTIC 108 IX. BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE DARDANELLES 125 X. THE U-BOAT BLOCKADE 161 XI. TRAWLERS, SMACKS, AND DRIFTERS 178 XII. THE DESTROYERS 201 XIII. P-BOATS AND AUXILIARY PATROL 216 XIV. Q-BOATS 231 XV. SUBMARINE _v._ SUBMARINE 256 XVI. THE HUNTED 272 XVII. ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND 295 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE ‘Whose crew abandoned ship and then all stood up and cursed us’ (_Coloured_) _Frontispiece_ ‘Does not look like any ship you have ever seen’ 47 ‘Towed back by an enemy trawler’ 59 ‘She was nearly submerged when the seaplane passed over her’ 63 ‘Turning passengers and crews adrift in open boats’ 75 ‘Were brought in by the 50-ton smack _Provident_ of Brixham’ 83 ‘She had gone full speed for the enemy, and rammed him’ 99 ‘The Russian ice-breakers freed them from the harbour ice’ 121 ‘The Fort gave them 200 rounds at short range’ 129 ‘Made her fast alongside his conning-tower’ 135 ‘She was mortally hit’ 149