So ends our chronicle, for, though there was still work to be done, the navy's long vigil was at an end. Far to the north, it was true, the converted merchantmen of the unsung Tenth Squadron still held to their task--still patiently examined, as month after month, in all kinds of weather, they had been stopping and examining, such innocent-seeming ships as, to their experienced eyes, might be blockade-runners. But the main task was over--the shouldering of the armies' burdens that had never ceased for one moment, the endless battle, with the world for its theatre, that it had waged for four and a quarter years. From President Wilson to the Sheriff of Mecca, it had been the good servant of all; and now, with its duty well and truly done, a certain quiet satisfaction might be permitted. There was no fear of this being too exuberant--as a corporate body, the navy was not that. It would rather rejoice in the general spirit of Admiral Tyrwhitt's advice to his men on Armistice Day. Exhorting them to be as cool in peace as they had been in war, and to return to their ships in good order, he concluded by informing them that, in the evening, an extra tot of rum would be served. Let that be the excuse for a last word. We have been tempted to suggest that the war was won by sea power. We were wrong. It was won by sailors--equally of the mercantile marine as of the navy. From Coronel to Kiao-Chao, from Archangel to Cocos-Keeling, no less in Lieutenant D'Oyly Hughes, stumbling through a Turkish farmyard, than in Admiral Jellicoe at Whitehall, no less in Lieutenant Brown, trying to salve the _Wellington_, than in Sir {293} David Beatty directing the Grand Fleet, it was the men that triumphed, by virtue of the spirit in them, and the great traditions that they had inherited--to be handed on in turn, as it had been handed down to themselves by Raleigh and Blake, Collingwood and Nelson. {297} INDEX _Abdiel_, 197 Ægean Sea, 108, 109, 129 _Agamemnon_, 122, 123, 127, 130, 287 Akaba, 107 Albemarle, 23 _Albion_, 123, 127, 130, 140, 147 _Alcester_, 198 Alexander-Sinclair, Commander E. S., 172, 191 Allardyce, Hon. W. L., 60 Allen, Captain, 78, 80, 81 Alleyne, Lieutenant Sir John, 248, 249 _Amethyst_, 27, 42, 140, 141 _Amphion_, 85 Andrews, Rear-Admiral Philip, 272 Anzac Cove, 137, 149 _Aquitania_, 261 Arbuthnot, Rear-Admiral Sir Robert, 186, 196 _Arethusa_, 22, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 90, 99 _Arkansas_, 270 _Ariadne_, 40 _Arizona_, 256 _Askold_, 107 Asquith, Right Hon. H. H., 11, 105, 116, 118, 134, 151 _Attack_, 98, 99 _Attentive_, 209 _Aurora_, 90, 91 _Aztec_, 252