All England’s privateers and cruisers failed to take a single Spanish treasure fleet.
Covered by a very feebly executed feint upon Stirling made by Mar, MacIntosh crossed the Firth of Forth, cleverly evading the English cruisers which guarded the passage.
In the mouth of Loch Aline we found a great sea-going ship at anchor; and this I supposed at first to be one of the King's cruisers which were kept along that coast, both summer and winter, to prevent communication with the French.
This port was particularly obnoxious to the Parliament, as from its advantageous position on the Bristol channel, its cruisers greatly annoyed and embarrassed their commerce.
British battle-cruisers and the two German armoured cruisers.
Eight days later, on September 22, the two German cruisers arrived off Papeete, in Tahiti, one of the loveliest of Pacific islands.
The Germans, their big armoured cruisers leading, and the smaller behind, gave chase.
The Glasgow kept up a continual fire upon the German light cruisers with one of her 6-inch guns and her port batteries.
The three smaller German cruisers very soon left the line, and made an attempt, veering off to the south, to scatter and escape.
Since the beginning of hostilities the work of his light cruisers had been moderately successful.
The Leipzig, the Nürnberg, and the Dresden were light cruisers of about 3,500 tons.
The deficiency was supplied by sending two German cruisers to Constantinople and selling them to the Turkish Government.
German cruisers were suspected to be in the neighbourhood.
The squadrons were converging rapidly, but the smaller cruisers were as yet out of range.
Admiral Cradock now knew that there were two more cruisers in the neighbourhood than had at first been supposed.
His cruisers are now out, and for some days past he has been occupied with his new war against the Danes.
At frequent intervals rockets were sent up, for the Frome was not so very far from the regular steamer track, while it was known that other destroyers and one or two cruisers were heading in their direction.
By the aid of wireless not only were vengeful cruisers hastening in his track, but the transatlantic liners, from whom he hoped to take a heavy toll, would be warned, and take precautions accordingly.
The immediate result of this affair was that a squadron of fast cruisers and a flotilla of destroyers left Brest to join in the hounding-down of the Independencia.
The pirate cruiser had run the gauntlet of the chain of cruisers and, with an open sea before her, was tearing at her utmost speed towards the desolate Arctic Ocean.
Without doubt a chain of cruisers would by this time be stationed at comparatively close intervals between Cape Clear and Cape Race.
Low visibility and calm sea are the most unfavourable conditions under which Submarines can operate, and no opportunity occurred of closing with the Enemy’s Cruisersto within torpedo range.
At daylight on August 28th the Lurcher and Firedrake searched the area, through which the Battle Cruisers were to advance, for hostile Submarines, and then proceeded towards Heligoland in the wake of Submarines E.
This resulted in the loss of three British cruisers with over 1,000 lives.
Commodore Goodenough had detached two of his Light Cruisers to assist some Destroyers earlier in the day, and these had not yet rejoined.
The Battle Cruisers turned North and circled to port to complete the destruction of the vessel first engaged.
Battle Cruisers turned to the Northward, and Queen Mary was again attacked by a Submarine.
Fully equipped mine-sweepers usually precede a fleet of battleships and big cruisers through dangerous and narrow seas, within the likely zone of hostile mines.
The cruisers are now but fifteen hundred yards apart, steaming in opposite directions.
The building of three newcruisers was authorized, but the plan to erect a dry dock at Kiel was rejected.
Next to them lie the cruisers Faragut and Los Angeles, and above them the battle ships California, and Dakota, and the Washington which is the flag ship.
The English and French cruisers can only prevent this traffic to a small extent, as it is so difficult to obtain an effective surveillance over such far-extended coasts.
The pens near the coast overflowed with prisoners, the few slavers that succeeded in eluding the cruisers along the shore not being sufficient to carry all of them to the Spanish colonies of America.
The Portuguese authorities on one side, and the English cruisers on the other, limit exportations.
We heard that the French authorities at Tahiti were very indignant at our having carried off the natives of islands under their protection, and that they had sent out several cruisers to intercept us.
The fear was that not only the French but the English might send out cruisers and interfere in all directions with our proceedings.
From the newspapers, we had learned that the main body of the French fleet, consisting of the armored cruisers Montcalm and Dupleix, besides a number of torpedo boat destroyers, was lying somewhere off Vladivostok.
As we approached the group of assembled warships, we saw the stanchcruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau lying in the midst of them, each with a coal tender alongside, and engaged in coaling.
A sense of protection, modified to some extent by the stretch of intervening water and the ghostliness of their outlines, emanated from those cruisers and battleships squatting like watch-dogs on the chain, alert and eager.
Seemingly, the German Admiralty had not calculated upon such a rapid move of the British cruisers by the Irish Sea northward, but had rather expected them to come up the North Sea.
The four German armoured cruisers of the second division turned within 1500 yards of the head of the British line, firing torpedoes and delivering and receiving a terrific shell fire.
Illustration] The faster German vessels successfully escaped round the front of the British cordon of cruisers and destroyers.
The other three cruisers were preparing to turn and go to her aid--a course which would certainly have involved the annihilation of the First Cruiser Squadron--when welcome help appeared.
Four armoured cruisers of the “County” class, exceedingly fast ships, had been pushed up behind the Channel cruisers, with instructions to carry on the work of harassing the Germans while the Channel cruisers coaled.
Meantime the rest of the British cruisers had set to work to scout in the entrance to the Channel in order to capture the German ships which had appeared off Portsmouth.
The news was sent by wireless telegraphy to the German cruisers out at sea, and by them transmitted to Emden and Berlin.
He steered between the Iphigenia and Intrepid, fearful if he turned back that he would be cut off by the British cruisers behind him in the Bristol Channel.
The destroyers were close at hand, and one of the large cruisers was stationed to the south-east to give timely notice in case any German naval force should appear.
While the British cruisers were busy recovering control of the Shetlands, the Atlantic Fleet, four battleships strong, had arrived at Portland, and joined the imposing fleet which was assembling at that splendid harbour.
The cordon was now complete, and the whole force of twenty-two cruisers and torpedo craft turned in towards the spot where the enemy was located.
On the 12th the four other cruisers of the “County” class and the destroyers reached Aberdeen early in the morning, and the Rear-Admiral set to work with zeal and energy to disturb and harass his enemy to the utmost.
Kurita's forces sank one carrier, two destroyers, and one destroyer escort but lost three heavy cruisers and had one crippled.
He would further have been subjected to the attack of the cruisers present in Leyte Gulf.
At 0900 the cruiserscommenced bombarding the beaches.
At 0945 thecruisers and destroyers lifted their fire and directed it at the inland areas, at the flanks of the landing beaches, and at important roads and towns.
At 0900 the battleships ceased their fire and the cruisers and destroyers moved in closer to the shore to deliver their scheduled bombardment.
Battleships andcruisers from a southern base were to approach Leyte from the south, fight their way to the landing beaches, and destroy Allied assault shipping.
The Japanese swallowed the bait and dispatched destroyers and cruiserstoward the "crippled" American force.
It was quickly discovered, however, that the cruisers were our own.
This board reported that the United States should have twenty-one battleships, seventy unarmored cruisers of various sizes and types, twenty torpedo boats, five rams and five torpedo gunboats, all to be built of steel.
American cruisers and gunboats were stationed in the harbors around the coast, from New York to New Orleans, and particularly on both sides of the Florida peninsula.
However, this did not prevent the purchase of a number of armed cruisers from foreign powers, which were transferred to the United States flag.
As soon as day began to break, the cruisers and gunboats inside the harbor hoisted anchors and moved out to join the big battleships which were already lined outside the bar.
Meantime the armored cruisers of the enemy stood to the west and were engaged by the Brooklyn, Oregon, Texas, Indiana and Iowa.
But this exception was modified by Spain's declaring her intention to send out only auxiliary cruisers taken from the mercantile marine and kept under naval control.
Most of the American cruisers were at the usual Sunday morning quarters, and not one ship was really prepared for immediate action.
The four Spanish cruisers were under the direct fire of the Brooklyn, and the four battleships, the Massachusetts, the Texas, the Iowa and the Oregon.
The Gloucester, after sending a boat ashore to the Pluton, steamed along the coast to where the armored cruisers were stranded and went to their assistance.
The huge fighting vessels kept close after the fast cruisers and fired their big guns with deadly certainty.
Spain's list of unarmored cruisers is long, but four of our battle ships or swift, modern, armored cruisers could blow the lot out of the water.
While the little yacht had been gaining this notable victory over the two famous destroyers the big battleships had been following the line of Spanish cruisers and pounding them with great persistence.
Whilst the Company's cruisers were capturing Mogul ships as lawful prize, Aurangzeb drew the Surat factors into his clutches, and threatened to put them to death unless the prizes were restored and vast sums paid by way of ransom.
He proposed to coerce the Great Mogul by sending out the Company's cruisers from Bombay to capture the Mogul ships going to Mecca, until Aurangzeb came to terms.
What she did if she happened to encounter a French cruiser I did not learn; apparently such an accident had not yet happened, she being a remarkably fast sailer while the French cruisers were notoriously slow-coaches.
As the English never employed any but the fastest cruisers for this station, we had a scratching time of it.
Probably there were no cruisers off Hatteras when that merchant vessel passed, but that was all of fifteen or twenty hours ago, and they had had plenty of time to get back to their stations.
And inside of that marine league, as it is called, the cruisers of one nation mustn't trouble the ships of another with which it happens to be at war.
He began with the statement that privateering was played out along that coast, because numerous cruisers were making it their business to watch the inlets and warn passing vessels to look out for themselves.
Having no watch to stand on this particular night, and having no fear of capture by cruisers or a fight with armed steam launches, Marcy soon fell asleep, to be awakened about midnight by a sound that sent the cold chills all over him.
I hope to slip in between them, or at least to get under the protection of the guns of the forts at the Inlet before any of the cruisers can come within range.
We are liable to fall into the hands of the cruisers any day; and suppose I had been captured and thrown into a Northern prison!
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