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Sea Warfare
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Title: Sea Warfare
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Release Date: February 6, 2006 [EBook #17689]
Language: English
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SEA WARFARE
BY
RUDYARD KIPLING
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1916
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET 1
TALES OF "THE TRADE" 93
DESTROYERS AT JUTLAND 145
THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET
(1915)
In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring trade, But she has gone a-rovin', a-rovin', a-rovin', The Lord knows where!
They gave her Government coal to burn, And a Q.F. gun at bow and stern, And sent her out a-rovin', etc.
Her skipper was mate of a bucko ship Which always killed one man per trip, So he is used to rovin', etc.
Her mate was skipper of a chapel in Wales, And so he fights in topper and tails-- Religi-ous tho' rovin', etc.
Her engineer is fifty-eight, So he's prepared to meet his fate, Which ain't unlikely rovin', etc.
Her leading-stoker's seventeen, So he don't kno