"She lies with a sharp list; sand's high up her starboard bilge.

Sand's washed down and buried the starboard bunkers.

"Starboard bunkers buried?"

It's plain we shan't get much coal from the starboard bunkers until we can lift her to an even keel.

"Starboard your helm, Mr. Chadwick.

"The starboard watch has been called," he said, "and you are to take charge of the deck, relieving LeVere.

"Starboard watch, Senor.

There's one or two others in the starboard watch who are likely enough all right, but I don't get to see them alone much.

Then in the starboard watch I'd pick out Jim Carter and Joe Cole, two Swedes, Carlson and Ole Hallin, and another nigger.

You sound these men and get them together; wake up the ones in the starboard watch you feel sure are all right, and have them slip quietly on deck.

If he can add to these five or six from the starboard watch below this will make a total, not counting LeVere and myself, of fifteen.

Are the four from the starboard watch on deck?" He nodded, clutching and unclutching his hands nervously, scarcely able to restrain himself.

What lay before me in facing the members of the starboard watch it was impossible to conceive, but they had to be sorted out, and it was my task.

"Anything to report?" "No, sir; all haze off the port quarter, and nothing showing to starboard.

"Yes, sir, I did; it was stored ter starboard, an ol'fashioned sea chest, padlocked, an' looked like a relic, but a damned strong box.

Where are the men?" "Forrard, sir, a hangin' over the starboard rail.

The rest of us crouched along the starboard rail, peering out into the mist, and listening for the slightest sound.

Lower that starboard quarter-boat you four, and see to the plugs and oars.

While he was thus employed, they shipped a sea on the starboard side, which all thought would send them to the bottom.

The submarine passed close under the stern, steered to the starboard side, then recrossed the stern to the port side, and when she was some fifty yards off on the port beam her conning tower appeared on the surface and she steered to pass round the stern again and towards one of the ship's boats on the starboard beam.

The submarine passed close under the stern, steered to the starboard side, then recrossed the stern to the port side, and when she was some fifty yards off on the port beam her conning tower appeared on the surface and she steered to pass round the stern again and towards one of the ship's boats on the starboard beam.

The situation now was that the submarine was passing from the port to the starboard quarter, and at any moment the 4-inch magazine and the remaining depth charges in the after part of the Dunraven might be expected to explode.

The 4-inch gun's crew aft knew the imminence of this danger, but not a man moved although the deck beneath them was rapidly becoming red hot; and Captain Campbell was so certain of the magnificent discipline and gallantry of his crew that he still held on so that the submarine might come clearly into view on the starboard side clear of the smoke of the fire aft.

The submarine gradually closed, keeping submerged, until within about a quarter of a mile, when she passed slowly round the ship, and finally came to the surface at a distance of about 500 yards on the starboard quarter.

Then the pilots of the place put out brisk and leapt on board; "Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass?" laughed they: "Rocks to starboard, rocks to port, all the passage scarred and scored, Shall the 'Formidable' here with her twelve and eighty guns, Think to make the river-mouth by the single narrow way, Trust to enter where 'tis ticklish for a craft of twenty tons,