His prose includes " Gallipoli" (1916), an account of the Dardanelles expedition, in which he himself took part; and " The Mainsail Haul, " a group of sea yarns.
I was very much tired, and disposed to sleep, which my mistress perceiving, she put me on her own bed, and covered me with a clean white handkerchief, but larger and coarser than the mainsail of a man-of-war.