Bottling Up Zeebrugge and Ostend

15 pages in this part of World's War Events.

THOSE who recall High Wood upon the Somme--and they must be many, as it was after the battles of 1916--may easily figure to themselves the…

Looking aft from the chaos of her wrecked bridge, one sees, snug against their wharf, the heroic bourgeois shapes of the two Liverpool…

Captain Carpenter in the flame-thrower hut.

Vindictive was fitted along the port side with a high false deck, whence ran the eighteen brows, or gangways, by which the storming and…

Landing on the Mole. "The men were magnificent." Every officer bears the same testimony. The mere landing on the Mole was a perilous…

Lieutenant H. T. C. Walker had his arm carried away by a shell on the upper deck and lay in the darkness while the storming parties trod…

The Daffodil's part in the fight.

Iris was obliged at last to change her position and fall in astern of Vindictive, and suffered very heavily from the fire. A single big…

Thetis came first, steaming into a tornado of shell from the great batteries ashore. All her crew, save a remnant who remained to steam her…

The Warwick takes off the men from the canal.

One destroyer, the North Star, is sunk.

The wind that blew back the smoke-screen at Zeebrugge served us even worse off Ostend, where that and nothing else prevented the success of…

The planning and execution of that success had been entrusted by the Vice-Admiral, Sir Roger Keyes, to Commodore Hubert Lynes, C.M.G., who…

The surprise, despite the German's watchfulness, seems to have been complete. Up till the moment when the torpedoes of the motor-boats…

It was at that moment that a shell from the shore batteries struck the conning-tower. Lieutenant Sir John Alleyne and Lieutenant V. A. C…