Chapter 11 -The Wrecked Sea-plane

With her stock of torpedoes replenished and certain defects made good, H.M.T.B.D. Calder sheered off from her parent ship, and, increasing speed to 21 knots, shaped a course to rejoin the rest of the flotilla.

Lieutenant-Commander Richard Crosthwaite was in high spirits. He thought that he had succeeded in bluffing the commodore to give his perm