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Transcriber's Note
The following changes have been made to the text:
Page 3: added missing open quotation mark: ("=It is no exaggeration to say that Commander Currey bears worthily the mantle of Kingston and Captain Marryat.=")
Page 3: added missing open quotation mark ("By writing this series the author is doing national service, ...)
Page 66: added missing word "on" (Needless to say, that ship went on no more excursions.)
Page 77: changed "bridginv" to "bridging" ( ... certain engineering "field companies," and "bridging trains," ...)
Page 147: changed "Chili" to "Chile" ( ... notably in the United States, Chile and Spain.)
Page 156: changed "alumimium" to "aluminium" (Alumina, too, is oxide of aluminium.)
Page 187: changed comma to period at end of sentence (... if the mild steel ordinarily employed for shipbuilding were used.)
Page 188: Deleted spurious comma following "experience" (... as experience shows, a very considerable degree of safety.)
Page 236: changed "nutil" to "until" ( ... which is stored in large accumulator batteries until required ...)
Page 237: added missing period ( ... by long spells of duty in this unhealthy atmosphere.)
Page 307: changed "aliminium" to "aluminium" ( ... another aluminium disc ...)