BY

SURGEON REAR-ADMIRAL

T. T. JEANS, C.M.G., R.N.

Author of "John Graham, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N."

"A Naval Venture" &c.

_Illustrated by Edward S. Hodgson_

BLACKIE & SON LIMITED

LONDON AND GLASGOW

1908

By

Surgeon Rear-Admiral

T. T. Jeans

The Gun-runners.

John Graham, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.

A Naval Venture.

Gunboat and Gun-runner.

Ford of H.M.S. "Vigilant".

On Foreign Service.

Mr. Midshipman Glover, R.N.

_Printed in Great Britain by Blackie & Son, Ltd., Glasgow_

*Preface*

In this story of the modern Royal Navy I have endeavoured, whilst

narrating many adventures both ashore and afloat, to portray the habits

of thought and speech of various types of officers and men of the Senior

Service who live and serve under the White Ensign to-day.

To do this the more graphically I have made some of the leading

characters take up, from each other, the threads of the story and

continue the description of incidents from their own points of view; the

remainder of the tale is written in the third person as by an outside

narrator.

I hope that this method will be found to lend additional interest to the

book.

I have had great assistance from several Gunnery, Torpedo, and Engineer

Lieutenants, who have read the manuscripts as they were written,

corrected many errors of detail, and made many useful suggestions.

The story may therefore claim to be technically correct.