Then
the scow--where was it? Only the waters rolled where the scow had
been. Captain Jack and Hal rubbed their eyes.
"The same thing would have happened to a battleship," smiled Lieutenant
Danvers, who had come up behind them. "Now, you young men begin to have
something like an idea of what an engine of war you are handling,
because this craft would be much more deadly, and vastly more
nerve-racking to an enemy, because she would approach under water, and
those on the battleship would have little or no means of gauging their
peril. Incidentally, Mr. Benson, I must congratulate you upon the
neatness of the shot."
"To accept congratulations for that would be like robbing a poor-box in
a church," laughed Jack. "It called for nothing but aiming the nose of
the boat straight."
"And, even under water," replied Danvers, "it calls for but few more
calculations. With really trained men all through the crew of a
submarine, you can now understand what show the battleship of coming
days will have against a single hostile torpedo boat.
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