Identifier: ourwonderfulnavy00marg (find matches)
Title: Our wonderful navy; the story of the sure shield in peace and war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Margerison, John S
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London, Cassell and Co., Ltd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ulls upon which were based the famous Dummy Ships. Thesewere vessels made, with the help of paint, wooden posts, and canvas,so like actual big battleships and battle-cruisers that when the realand the dummy ships lay in the same harbour one could not be toldfrom the other. They worked in squadrons and often went out,unprotected by any guns, into the North Sea in the hope of temptingthe enemy to come out and strafe them, during which time realfighters would have arrived and made short work of the Hun in turn. Also it is on record that a certain famous admiral, having receivedwireless information that a squadron of five battle-cruisers were atsea in such and such a vicinity, went after them at full speed to givebattle, and upon sighting them, was astounded to find that the squadronhe was chasing was to all seeming, the very squadron he was com-manding. It was only the dummy ships which were his own duplicatesthai had started the alarm. WADDLING SHIPS THAT WERE REALLY FLOATING FORTRESSES
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British Monitors Shelling the Belgian coast. CHAPTER XIII THE WORK OF THE MONITORS A MONG the ships about which very Httle information was given/ % during the war are the monitors—the strange unwieldy craft weJL ^.improvised because we had none in the service proper when thewar broke out. And when the full history of the navy comes tobe written, deeds of daring will be disclosed which will put into shadethe many wonderful sea actions performed in the good old days ofQueen Elizabeth and her sea rovers, and the adventures of the SpanishMain, such as will delight the heart of the boy who reads sea andpirate stories with great gusto—the boy who longs to take part insuch exploits. Strange though it may seem to say, the greatestand most daring of these deeds will not be found in the stories ofthe great sea campaign, nor in the constant blockade in the NorthSea, though both have their wonderful exploits to relate. Many ofthe smaller and hardly chronicled events which have been termedthe

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