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The Boy's Book of the Sea

Chapter 2: List of Illustrations
By Eric Wood
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About This Book

The collection assembles vivid accounts of seafaring life and history aimed at young readers, combining narrative episodes, technical descriptions, and illustrative plates. It surveys changes in naval warfare from close wooden-ship engagements to modern long-range and mechanical methods, and recounts voyages of exploration, buccaneering exploits, and pirate adventures. Other chapters describe perilous incidents such as shipwrecks, fires, blockade running, castaway survival, treasure lore, diving and salvage, and the hazardous labors of fishermen. Throughout, dramatic anecdote and practical detail are interwoven to convey both adventure and the realities of life at sea.

List of Illustrations

COLOUR PLATES
“Shells fell upon her like hailstones, sweeping
her decks, crashing into her sides. She was on
fire”		 Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
“Sword in hand, Roberts led his men to the fight,
dashing through a very hail of shot”		 90
“The funnels and ventilators were belching forth
mighty columns of flame, every part of the ship
was ablaze”		 150
“Though her men worked hard at the pumps, they
could not save her”		 226
BLACK-AND-WHITE PLATES
FACING PAGE
“Kennedy, with a couple of middies and fewer than
thirty men, rushed aboard”		 8
“A mighty gale caught Diaz, and carried his frail
craft before it”		 30
“Promptly boarded the Vice-Admiral. ‘Surrender!’
yelled the Buccaneers”		 50
“There was a whoosh! whoosh! of a rocket heavenwards—the
warning to the blockading fleet”		 94
“Weybhays and his men fell upon the pirates” 108
“‘For the honour of the Queen of England, I must
have passage this way!’ cried Drake, and discharged
his pistol”		 134
“The ship was now in one blaze, and her masts began
to fall in”		 154
“Swinging from this side to that as he was attacked,
the diver managed to ward off the tigers of
the deep”		 176
“To the rigging they fled, scrambling up in frenzied
haste”		 200
“It was simply agonising to watch the wretched men
struggling over the ship’s bottom in masses”		 216
“She fought bravely against the tumult, but was
driven back again and again”		 250
“Men, strong-limbed, full-blooded, with the zest
and the love of life in them, stood calmly by”		 300