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The Americans take their turn with the British boats in all routine work of patrol and convoy. The work, although largely routine, is interesting, and the Americans have never yet found time hanging heavy on their hands. The lookout must be constant, and eyes must be trained to an unbelievable degree of keenness. The young Americans take zealously to this business of finding the periscopic needles in the nautical hay- stack, and daily reports of submarines sighted, of observations made, of wire- less warnings sent broadcast, show that the American boats are already making an average of results almost as satis- factory as the long-experienced English boats with which they are operating. An assignment to convoy a liner from home that is, from an American port is regarded as an especially choice morsel. prev next |