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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 541

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id the lieutenant of marines. We were standing on the quarter-deck of theUnited States armored cruiser Washington, oneof a fleet of fourteen war-ships slowly nosingtheir way toward the entrance to Long IslandSound. It was early dawn, and there was nodirect light from the sun to glint on the… … SUBMARINE BOAT CONSTRUCTED BY SYMONS IN 1747 the night before. It was not a real enemy, butUncle Sams sea-fighters were playing at the wargame, and our fleet was trying to force an en-trance to the waters between Long Island and the Connecticut shore, in order to get at New York. We d probably be…

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