The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Gunroom
Title: The Gunroom
Author: Charles Morgan
Release date: July 17, 2016 [eBook #52591]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024
Language: English
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THE IMMORTAL GAMBLE
AND THE PART PLAYED IN IT BY H.M.S. “CORNWALLIS”
By A. T. STEWART, Acting-Commander, R.N.
AND THE
Rev. C. J. E. PESHALL, Chaplain, R.N.
Post 8vo. Containing 32 page Illustrations from photographs, and a Map
Price 6/- net. (Post free 6/5)
This book, written by two officers of the battleship from whose fore-turret was fired the first shot of the bombardment, gives an account of happenings of vital interest and importance. It is absorbing because the truth shines out everywhere, and you feel that for once you are really getting first-hand information as to what did happen. It bridges the gap between February 19th and April 25th (the date of the Great Landing), and of this period we have hitherto heard hardly anything. Besides the valuable nature of the material, this chronicle of great events is written with considerable literary skill. The authors have succeeded in making their “log” intimate. It is before all things a man’s book, and unless the publishers are much mistaken, this originally conceived Saga of the Straits will attract attention everywhere.
PUBLISHED BY
A. AND C. BLACK, LTD., 4, 5 AND 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1
THE GUNROOM
BY
CHARLES LANGBRIDGE MORGAN
“We are carried so far out to sea that we lose sight of the quiet haven whence
we set forth.”
—Dialogus beati Gregorii Papæ ejusque diaconi Petri,
translation 1608 and Robert Bridges.
A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1
1919
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | THE SHORE RECEDES | 1 |
| II. | SEEN THROUGH STEEL | 25 |
| III. | A CHAPTER WITHOUT NAME | 36 |
| IV. | WAR, CARPETS, AND CANDLES | 62 |
| V. | TWO WORLDS | 85 |
| VI. | STRAIN AND RELIEF | 101 |
| VII. | MARGARET | 113 |
| VIII. | THE NET | 143 |
| IX. | QUARTERED ON THE KINGDOM | 149 |
| X. | EASTERN SEAS | 162 |
| XI. | AWAY FROM THE SHIP | 169 |
| XII. | THE CAPTAIN IN CONFIDENCE | 177 |
| XIII. | LOOKING BEYOND | 196 |
| XIV. | WASTE AND WONDER | 212 |
| XV. | TRAFALGAR AND THE RED LAMP | 227 |
| XVI. | THE ENGINES | 236 |
| XVII. | DECISION | 263 |
| XVIII. | IN THE CROSS-PASSAGE | 276 |
| XIX. | CRISIS | 287 |
| XX. | WINGFIELD ALTER | 305 |
| XXI. | THE CURRENCY | 311 |
| XXII. | MARGARET IN THE NET | 320 |
| XXIII. | AN INSTANT FREE | 334 |
| XXIV. | ONE YEAR LATER: THE WORLD IN THE NET | 347 |