Excerpt from The Londons of the British Fleet: How They Faced the Enemy on the Day of Battle and What Their Story Means for Us to-Day Strong are we? Make us stronger yet 1 Great -make us greater far! Of all the names on the roll of the men-of-war of our National Navy, no other has historic associations so fraught with grave warnings and object-lessons for our common welfare and safety in the circum stances of the present time. Nor could it be more fitting than that it should fall to a London to convey the message; to the specially named representative in the British Fleet of the Capital City of the Empire and the nerve-centre of the vast commercial organ ization by which we live from day to day and on which depends our National and Imperial existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.