[Illustration: cover] THE SALVING OF THE "FUSI YAMA" 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 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: A SUBMARINE DUEL _Frontispiece_ (missing from book)] THE SALVING OF THE "FUSI YAMA" A Post-War Story of the Sea BY PERCY F. WESTERMAN _Illustrated by E. S. Hodgson_ BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY Contents CHAP. I. ROCKS AHEAD II. TO THE RESCUE III. SIGNING ON IV. COMRADES ALL V. THE "FUSI YAMA" VI. THE YACHT "TITANIA" VII. SAND-BAGGED VIII. THE "TITANIA" SAILS IX. "WHERE AM I?" X. A CHOICE OF TWO EVILS XI. VILLIERS' RETURN XII. PETE AND THE MUTINY XIII. ADVICE AND BLUFF XIV. SUNK IN COLLISION XV. WHAT DID DICK DO? XVI. THE WRONG ISLAND XVII. NUA LEHA XVIII. THE FIRST DAY ON THE ISLAND XIX. MISSING XX. UP AND DOWN XXI. A GOOD NIGHT'S WORK XXII. VON GIESPERT HEARS NEWS XXIII. EUREKA! XXIV. THE HURRICANE XXV. "KONKED OUT" XXVI. HARBOROUGH'S RUSE XXVII. A SUBMARINE DUEL XXVIII. THE EXPLOSION XXIX. A FRUSTRATED ESCAPE XXX. VON GIESPERT'S RESOLVE XXXI. EXIT THE "ZUG" XXXII. SETTLING ACCOUNTS Illustrations ------ A SUBMARINE DUEL _Frontispiece_ (missing from book) SAND-BAGGED UNMASKED HE WAS NO LONGER AN AMIABLE SWEDE (missing from book) THE GERMANS WERE DUMFOUNDED JACK WAS PINNED PRETTY FIRMLY AGAINST THE CEILING CLAVERHOUSE STEERS THE SEAPLANE INTO THE LAGOON THE SALVING OF THE "FUSI YAMA" CHAPTER I Rocks Ahead "And how do you like being out of harness, old top?" inquired Jack Villiers.