There was the fellow who had sighted the periscope first of all, the man who had seen the wake of the torpedo, and the littlest ambulance driver who had sighted the submarine through the bathroom window while immersed in the tub.
The periscope was falling astern, and the three hundred passengers, mostly ambulance drivers and Red Cross nurses, were lined along the rail, rooting.
By periscope we could see the Hun trenches, not many yards distant, and dozens of dead Germans lying between the two lines.
Nicholson became so interested in a view through a periscope that I took a picture of him while thus engaged.
With the periscope barely reaching above the surface, the work of forcing water from the tanks was stopped.
The D-16 had submerged until her periscope was of no value, but Lord Hastings had deemed this advisable, because, had the periscope been allowed to protrude above water, it might have been carried away by a German shell.
The aim of this particular gunner was excellent; for the periscope of the D-16 was carried away as clean as a whistle.
This was done, and as the periscope once more took in the sight about, Lord Hastings, who gazed through it, stepped quickly aside and motioned to Jack to peer in.
Lord Hastings looked quickly around, but could see nothing of the enemy; but even as he looked, the periscope of the enemy's vessel bobbed up less than half a mile away.
When, finally, Lord Hastings judged that they must be in close proximity to the German torpedo flotilla, he ordered that the D-16 rise until her periscope showed them their surroundings.
Speeding forward in the wake of the German cruisers, which the periscope made plain, were all the German torpedo boats, except three.
Once more the signal was given to rise, and as the D-16 came to the surface, Lord Hastings, through the periscope, saw the periscope of the enemy go down.
Remember, Ikey, we don't know a livin' thing about that firstperiscope the lookouts spied.
While the whole ship's company was watching the imitation periscope Frenchy and Ikey had slipped overboard through the ash-chute, the real submarine might have torpedoed the Kennebunk.
The disappearance of the first periscope which had been hailed from the masthead was the cause of much discussion.
We fellows going out to target practice, while those battleships already on the other side of this periscope pond may be fighting the Fritzies off Heligoland.
Our gunner, Mr. Dougherty, positively asserts that he hit the periscope and that the submarine sank.
I had taken the position of the three ships before submerging, and I succeeded in getting another flash through my periscope before I began action.
This difficulty has in a measure been decreased, however, by the use of the hyperscope, an instrument which works very much like the periscope on a submarine.
About five minutes later another periscope was seen on our starboard quarter and fire was opened.
I had been going ahead partly submerged, with about five feet of my periscope showing.
Almost directly after the Hogue was hit we observed a periscope on our port bow about 300 yards off.
That is to say, it's much easier to convey false impressions, especially regarding your direction, to a man with his eye to a periscope than to one in the foretop of a battleship, to take the two extremes.
One of his hobbies is making his ship look what she isn't, and, in order to see her as she would appear to a U-boat, he goes out and studies her through the periscope of one of our own submarines.
When one of these isn't handy, he sometimes goes out in a whaler and studies her through a stubby periscope poked over its gunwale.
We passed the periscope ten yards on the port side, and when the stern was just coming abreast it, two charges were released together.
There could have been nothing in the explosion to tell him that it did any harm to his enemy, and, since he did not have his periscope up, there was no way he could see what had happened.
As for the searchlight, I saw that it wouldn't do the first time I went down and took a peep at a trial of it through the periscope of one of our own submarines.
Shortly after that a periscope appeared, and it was this that gave the Whack her chance to drop her depth-charges.
I believe a small charge is made for looking at him through the periscope there.
But now I am becoming quite careful; No Man's Land isn't very interesting, so a periscope is good enough.
Their eyes were busy, searching the misty surface for the periscope of their deadly enemy.
The other coxswain who was at the periscope at the moment, looked up.
But I say, can't other craft spot the periscopein all this sunshine?
Twenty minutes later the periscope was again a few feet out of the water with the lieutenant's eye glued to the glass and his right hand working the lever.
Voltz gazed again into the glass of the periscope after giving his order to the engineer.
He had had his hand on the lever at his right and with this had turned the periscope tube so that his eye could sweep the horizon.
Ten minutes afterward the periscope peeped up over the surface of the sea once more, and Capt.
It is a long, low-lying craft painted black," resumed Loringhoven, retaining his place at the periscope in order to ingratiate himself in the eyes of his commanding officer.
When a periscope is in danger of getting a blinding blow in the shape of a six-pounder shell, or the hull to which it belongs is liable to be pulverised by a trio of torpedoes, the need for extreme caution becomes apparent.
After a period of ten minutes' total submergence the periscope shoved its squat snout above the surface--like a reluctant puppy about to receive a hiding.
For my own part, I'd as lief use my fist in a close scrap, but you can't hit a periscope at two hundred yards with your fist.
Once more the periscope reared its sinister head above the waves.
The sight of a slender pole inclined slightly from the perpendicular and throwing out a double feather of spray as it cleft the water told him that it was the periscope of a submarine.
The ober-leutnant steadied theperiscope and touched a switch.
From time to time Van Emmon's agent turned his mysterious periscope so as to take it all in, and the geologist was able to watch his fill.
But the fellow at the periscope didn't change position one whit!
You cannot, of course, rise and use your periscope to see where you are.
In the case of the periscope a narrow metallic tube is thrust above the water and the shutter turned about, reflecting all the scene about on a white-covered table in the boat's cabin.
Sitting here upon the tops of our steel helmets, which the same make fairly good perches to sit on when the ground is muddied, we could look through periscope glasses right into the courtyard of a wrecked chateau held by the enemy.
Take a squint, Cap, through the periscope and you'll be able to locate him, dead easy.
But Dave Darrin, knocking von Schellen's hand away, seized the lever, forcing the periscope to rise to its full height above the conning tower.
At the instant it was discovered the periscopesank down below the surface.
You will note that the periscope is again lowered.
We will raise the periscope and show you what we are about to do," said the ober-lieutenant, with a half-malicious smile.
Receiving it, the younger officer turned the wheel, sending the periscope up a foot above water.
Sharp eyes, indeed, that had made out the presence of the enemy craft by sighting the slender, almost pencil-like periscope that projected some few feet above the water.
Pass the word that the first man really to sight a periscope or a conning tower shall have a fortnight's shore leave extra," Dave ordered.
We have tested the new periscopeand its bearings, and have found that they work perfectly.
Von Schellen, his hand on the wheel of the periscope mechanism, awaited a nod from his chief.
At this juncture, while the enemy light cruiser was still in sight, there popped up close to the boat the periscope of a submarine.
Then she would move to the different positions at which she had to lay her mines, all the while using her periscope for the taking of cross bearings.
As soon as there was light enough she would rise until her periscope was above the surface, and ascertain her position by cross bearings of the shore taken through her periscope.
But the water was shallow and her periscope was still above the surface when she touched bottom.
No ray of light reached us any longer from without, the periscope was submerged long ago and the steel safety covers over the windows were closed.
At night, of course, theperiscope is practically useless.
At night when the periscope is practically useless or in very rough weather, or in case the periscope has been damaged or destroyed, steering is done exclusively by means of the compass.
Appliances have been developed to make the rotation of the periscope safe, prompt, and easy so that the horizon can be swept readily in every direction.
Then water begins to gurgle into the ballast-tanks, and U-47 sinks until only her periscope shows.
After half an hour of underwater work we came near enough the surface for our fighting periscope to stick twenty inches out of the water and searched the lonely horizon for a ship to attack.
Formerly a shot which cut off the periscopenear the water's edge might sink the boat.
We read: Our officers were experts at watching for submarines, and though the little white wave made by the periscope disappeared, they caught the white wake of the torpedo coming toward the port quarter and sheered off to escape it.
The periscope also was covered and we were completely beneath the surface.
In the after part was the main hatch and behind it a stationary periscope, standing about thirty inches above the surface of the water when the deck was submerged and only the periscope showing.
Some form of collapsible periscope may be carried, but most of us discarded the ones we had bought in England in favour of the simple ones that I have described in another place.
Certain gunners who used to come to the trenches as Forward Observing Officers were equipped with a splendid periscope that had beautiful lenses in it.
To make the image in the periscope clearer, binoculars can be applied to the lower glass at the proper angle, and almost as clear a view obtained as by looking over the parapet.
The skipper of the trawler Adam and Eve reports having sighted a periscope flying a large flag in latitude xy deg.
He came in on the flood-tide, grim and menacing, causing a great commotion in the water, and with his periscope raising its flutter of spray.
He replaced the handkerchief in his pocket, and applied his eyes to the periscope again.
The lieutenant at the periscope suddenly held his breath as a muffled, whistling shriek and the roar of an explosion from outside brought the men's heads up in eager, listening attention.
He has, in fine, to guess a great deal as to the course and distance of the enemy from the spot corresponding to that on which he is supposed to be, which reproduces the conditions under which a periscope is used fairly accurately.
Then I pulled down the periscope and, without being noticed, changed my course to the south.
The sweat stood out on my forehead, and the excitement made me so warm that the sights on the periscope time and time again clouded up on account of the heat from my body.
The steamer could not see our cautious and hardly-shown periscope and continued unconcerned on its course.
If we had traveled at the periscope level for only a few minutes more, I would not be sitting here to-day, smoking my cigar and writing down the story of our adventures.
We arose and I put up the periscope and looked around.
At the same time, I decided to rise so as to get a better observation through the periscopeand once more look around the horizon.
The sea washed over the periscope again and again with white-combed, rushing mountains of water, so that for several long seconds I could see nothing.
The mines are set in the nets at the height at which the U-boats generally travel, which is the periscope level.
Having the ballast diminished by nine hundred liters, she leaped upwards rapidly, but this did not suit my purpose, as I preferred first to put up the periscope and find out whether the atmosphere was free from British germs.
I was standing at the periscope and observed the wrath of the elements.
By this time I had the periscope submerged so that we were completely below the surface and out of sight, and it would be impossible to discover us from the steamer, even after the most careful searching of the horizon.
The uses of a trench periscopeare so well known that they need not be described.
The conversation turning on submarines, Frank mentioned the incident of the broken case on the quay at Panderma, when he had noticed the periscope of a submarine disclosed by the breach.
The break disclosed the top of the periscope of a submarine.
It was probably the very submarine whose periscopehe had caught a rapid glimpse of at Panderma.
You might turn on the bull's eye, but they'd spot the light through their periscope and either torpedo us or do a bunk.
The senator took his eye away from the periscope briefly and looked at Jennings speculatively.
Through the periscope slit, Jennings watched the ship settle lightly downward to the ground, as though it were a breezeborne feather instead of its tons of metal.
The monotonous buzz of the field phone pulled him away from his fascinated gaze at the periscope slit.
Colonel Jennings walked over to theperiscope slit again and peered through the shimmer of heat to where the silvery ship lay arrowed in her cradle.
Jennings went back over to the periscope and peered through the slit.
The senator gave him the briefest of explanatory looks, and placed his own eye at the periscope slit.
The ass jumped on to the top of the conning-tower--got an arm round the periscope tube, and began banging away at the periscope with a hammer!
We swept for it, and found it three days later, and the brave ass was still clinging to the periscope tube with his feet twisted round the conning-tower rail.
That meant another interval for excitement, and a manning of the small guns in case Fritz took it into his head to pop up his periscope anywhere near.
Rumours came that a trawler had sighted a periscopeoff Imbros island, thirteen miles away, and it seemed definitely ascertained that two submarines had arrived at Smyrna.
The Swiftsure's 14-pounders blazed away, under went the periscope and did not appear again.
Three days' grace the Majestic received, and then she too met her fate, a submarine creeping up, with her periscope just showing, and firing two torpedoes at her through a gap between two small store ships.
Jack repeated the command with alacrity; and when the D-17 had risen so that herperiscope barely protruded above the top of the water, she was kept stationary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "periscope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: periscope; scope; scuba; spectroscope; submarine
