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THE
Silent Watchers
England’s Navy during the Great War:
What It Is, and What We Owe to It
By
BENNET COPPLESTONE
AUTHOR OF
“THE LOST NAVAL PAPERS”
“The Navy is a matter of machines only in
so far as human beings can only achieve material
ends by material means. I look upon the ships and
the guns as secreted by the men just as a tortoise
secretes its shell.”
—Prologue.
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NOTE
Between June, 1916, and February, 1918, I
contributed a good many articles and sketches on
Naval subjects to The Cornhill Magazine. They
were not designed upon any plan or published
in any settled sequence. As one article led up
to another, and information came to me from my
generously appreciative readers (many of whom
were in the Service), I revised those which I had
written and ventured to write still more. This
book contains my Cornhill articles—revised and
sometimes re-written in the light of wider information
and kindly criticism—and several additional
chapters which have not previously been published
anywhere. I have endeavoured to weave into a
connected series articles and sketches which were
originally disconnected, and I have introduced
new strands to give strength to the fabric. Through
the whole runs a golden thread which I have
called The Secret of the Navy.
B. C.
March, 1918.