How many times have you paused to gaze provided you live in a maritimetown of course, at Uncle Sam's grim, gray sea-fighters swinging at theiranchors, or steaming majestically by? Haven't you thought then that youwould like to know something of the lives of the servers of theircountry who pass the best part of their adventurous lives within thosesteel walls?
There are no books published which will tell you more of the newnavy,--of the men, the ships, the huge guns, the submarine auxiliariesand all the hundred and one things that go to make up the fascination ofthe naval seaman's life, than these volumes.
In the first volume of the series which bears the above title Ned Strongand Herc Taylor make their debut in Uncle Sam's navy. Of course theyhave to endure much rough joking. Ned, however, proves so handy with hisfists in a notable set-to with the ship's bully that the boys soon setthemselves on a footing. From that moment on adventures come thick andfast. At target practice Herc--by a mean trick of his enemy becomes aliving target for a twelve inch gun. A flare-back in the forward turretof the Dreadnought on which they are serving gives the lads theirlonged-for opportunity to show the stuff they are made of. Real booksfor real boys.