Blackwoods Magazine Vol 191

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334900839
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 207 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 207: January-June, 1920 Within the intervening 132 hours, the ship had been gutted of all her cabins on every deck stripped of all panelling every where; eight 6-inch guns had been mounted, the ship's frame work and supporting deck had been strengthened to match; and magazines and shell-rooms had been built. Besides this, stores for the ship, food for her company, her guns, and her boilers, had been hoisted in by the hundred ton - coal, indeed, by the thousand ton; Officers and men had been appointed, had joined, and taken charge. Aladdin's lamp must have begun to think about hiding its pale ineffectual fire! A short gun-trial outside the Bar lightship, which passed us sound as regards guns and fittings: a last letter home in the mysteriously veiled lan guage that later became so easy and expected - and we were away! The then un accustomed secrecy as to the vessel's destination and route was interpreted in several places as meaning that we were bound to a northern port, to add one more to the troop ships well known then to be engaged in hurrying thousands of Russian troops across to the north of Scotland. For, with the snow still on their beards, and the ice of Archangel in their bones (as it were, chilled beef), they had been actually seen passing southward by train through England on their way to the Front! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.