title: Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes (Pen and Sword Military Classics)
author:  C E T Warren 
description: The authors both served in the special submarine branch about which they write; C E T Warren was one of the first two men to ride a human torpedo. James Benson commanded the last midget submarine in commission off British shores at the conclusion of European hostilities.
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  # Looking Seaward Again
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Walter Runciman
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  Through Torpedoes and Ice
  
  
  Fair Trade and Foul Play
  
  
  Smugglers of the Rock
  
  
  A Pasha before Plevna
  
  
  A Russian Port in the 'Sixties
  
  
  “Dutchy” and his Chief
  
  
  
  
  
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  LOOKING SEAWARD AGAIN
  
  
  by
  
  
  Sir WALTER RUNCIMAN, Bart.,
  
  
  Author of _The Shellback's Progress_ , _Windjammers and Sea
  
  
  Tramps_, etc.
  
  
  London: Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd.
  
  
  1907.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO MY WIFE THESE FRAGMENTS ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The following tales have been told to some few men and women by the
  
  
  fireside. The stories themselves only claim to be unvarnished matters
  
  
  of fact; and I may repeat here what I said in a previous volume, that
  
  
  my object has not been to strain afte