Soon her periscopes
thrust their eyes out of the depths.
"Look! there, off our port bow!" exclaimed Jack to his chief.
McClure saw it, too, at the same moment---a giant German battle
cruiser lying broadside to the harbor entrance and every gun belching
forth fire at the allied fleet outside!
Responding to the control of her commander, the _Monitor_ swung off
sharply to port and drove straight for the cruiser.
McClure's right hand groped for the torpedo button as he sighted
on the German battle cruiser. He released a torpedo!
CHAPTER XXV
CHLORINE GAS
Confident of security behind the mass of mines and submarine traps
spread ingeniously across the harbor entrance, devoting their attention
almost solely to the artillery duel with the dreadnoughts outside, the
German cruiser knew naught of the stealthy torpedo from the daring
_Monitor_ until it shot suddenly forward below the surface of the
water, revealed in the glare of her own searchlight. But it was
too late then to avoid the deadly missile and it struck home abaft
the engines and directly at the after magazine chambers.
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