Griffith, G. (1904) The Stolen Submarine – serialised in 1904 in Dundee Evening Telegraph. [Other sydications to be checked] Published in book form as The Stolen Submarine: A Tale of the Russo-Japanese War by by F. V. White & Co., Ltd. in London. An advanced French super-submarine is stolen and …
Walter Wood (1905) Submarined – Pearson’s Magazine, February 1905 A short story of a disabled British battleship taking refuge and defending itself against a submarine attack by a diver blowing up the submarine with a mine. In Walter Wood’s story, “Submarined,” the lieutenant of a damaged battleship turns the tables …
Sir Max Pemberton (1901) The Giant’s Gate, the Story of a Great Adventure Sir Max Pemberton (19 June 1863 – 22 February 1950) was a popular British novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. He was educated at St Albans School, Merchant Taylors’ School, and Caius College, Cambridge. …
Arthur Conan Doyle (1914) Danger! and Other Stories, Strand Magazine July 1914 It is an amazing thing that the English, who have the reputation of being a practical nation, never saw the danger to which they were exposed. For many years they had been spending nearly a hundred millions a …
George Griffith (1907) The world peril of 1910, London, F. V. White & Co. Ltd. CHAPTER I – A MOMENTOUS EXPERIMENT On the first day of July, 1908, a scene which was destined to become historic took place in the great Lecture Theatre in the Imperial College at Potsdam. It …
George Griffith (1901) The Raid of Le Vengeur, Pearson’s Magazine – February 1901 Chapter I.–THE DREAM OF CAPTAIN FLAUBERT. It was the third morning after the naval manoeuvres at Cherbourg, and since their conclusion Captain Leon Flaubert, of the Marine Experimental Department of the French Navy, had not had three …