dder. Instinctively they took another look around them before dipping into the hold of the Dewey. They realized that here, indeed, was the real thrill of

cruising were shut off and the locomotion of the vessel switched over to the electric drive of the storage batteries. But their attent

immediately could be heard the swirling of water. The boys were unable to grasp the full meaning of what was go

as called "trimming" in submarine cruising, and that the pumping of the water being directed by Binns was done to fill the ballast tanks, thus increasing the displacement of the Dewey and causing it to settle in the wate

n periscopes, and that, furthermore, they would be allowed to watch the submersion of the Dewey through the reserve periscope if they so desired. Would

ut surely to overwhelm them. One after another the waves surged by. Now the eye of the periscope was so close to the crest of the water that it was only a matter of another moment until they would be under. Up, up, up came the water to meet them. Ted's heart was in his mouth while he viewed this awesome spectacle. Then he gave wa

Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," and he was suddenly inspired to find out whether it was possible to glimpse any of the wonders depicted by the writer. A peep into the tube showed only a greenish haze as the rays of

sult of their first experience in a deep-sea dive. So tense were they with excitement that they marveled at the care-free attitude

Ted, as the two settled into a conv

p in a Ferris wheel and once I had a ride with Uncle Jim in the cab of a locomotive--but

h I had left my heart and stomach up th

remark was reminiscent of other "rook

artment of internal affairs before you get rightly acquainted with y

ickness. Bill's remark drove the import of it home pretty hard. "I hope, if we are go

rbances, for there was much going on that occupied their attention. The De

vessel down here unde

re running blind down here, except that the skipper knows from his compass which direction we are going, and he has charts that tell him th

n can we go?"

rs," replied Bill. "But you can bet your life we don't often go down that far. When we do, the water is oozing through the thi

them, coated with a composition that contained cork, being dotted here and there with drops of water. Jac

this time, the officers and crew being anxious to prove the submersible ready for any emergency cal

the lighthouse at the bay entrance, and soon they were back in the navy yard. Their letters home that night thrilled with accounts of their

illed in the forms for loading and firing torpedoes from the chambers in the bow of the boat, and in manning the four-inch guns above deck, as well as the anti-aircraft guns that poked their noses straight up in the air and sent up shells much after the fashion of Fourt

," sighed Jack one afternoon after the gun crew had finished pepp

Ted, as he recalled the stories he had read of the submarines being visible while yet u

n a commotion. Motor trucks were depositing piles of goods near the piers which were being lightered to some units of the submarine fleet in motor launches. O

he other undersea craft that were being provisioned

way from here," suggested

been making mysel

of the commandant of the yard and called his staff of officers into executive conference down in the officers' quarters. The news spread quickly through the Dewey as though by magic, that t

orders! Whe