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The narrator, a reserve naval lieutenant, recounts volunteering to command a disguised merchant steamer loaded with concealed arms intended to reach Irish insurgents. The memoir follows the ship's conversion, false papers and colours, a perilous voyage through enemy-patrolled waters, close encounters with cruisers and destroyers, efforts to slip past the blockade, the deliberate sinking of the vessel to prevent capture, the crew's escape and later recapture, and the subsequent prize-court inquiry. Technical detail on seamanship and blockade-running tactics is woven with reflections on clandestine naval operations.
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