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Memoirs & Diaries - The Best 500 Cockney War Stories - High Seas

High Seas section of "The Best 500 Cockney War Stories" Published in London in 1921, The Best 500 Cockney War Stories comprised, in the words of its newspaper publisher (The London Evening News) "a remembering and retelling of those war days when laughter sometimes saved men's reason".

The collection of short memoirs, some 500 in total, is divided into five categories - Action, Lull, Hospital, High Seas and Here and There.

Other sections within the collection can be accessed using the sidebar to the right.

Summarised below is a list of the story pages available within the fourth of these categories, High Seas:

Stories
The Skipper's Cigar and four other stories
It WAS a Collapsible Boat and four other stories
A Voice in the dark and four other stories
Urgent and Personal! and four other stories
Another Perch in the Roost and four other stories
"Spotty" the Jonah and four other stories
Three Varieties and four other stories
Water on the Watch and four other stories
Coco-nut Shies and four other stories
Five to One Against the "Tinfish" and four other stories
The All-Seeing Eye and two other stories

'Strafing' is attacking ground troops by machine guns fired from low-flying aircraft.

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