ILLUSTRATIONS

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Merchantmen at Gun Practice[Frontispiece]
The Clyde from the Tower of the Clyde Trust Buildings[xi]
Gravesend: A Merchantman Outward Bound[3]
The Bridge of a Merchantman[7]
The Old and the New: The Margaret of Dublin and R.M.S. Tuscania[15]
In a Merchantman—Bomb-Thrower Practice[21]
A British Submarine detailed for Instruction of Merchant Officers[31]
The D.A.M.S. Gunwharf at Glasgow[33]
Instructional Anti-Submarine Course for Merchant Officers at Glasgow[39]
The Loss of a Liner[44]
The Mersey from the Liver Buildings, Liverpool[49]
The Master of the Gull Lightship writing the Log[53]
At Gravesend: Pilots awaiting an Inward-Bound Convoy[59]
Transports leaving Southampton on the Night Passage to France[67]
Liverpool: Merchantmen signing on for Oversea Voyages[69]
The Ruler of Pilots at Deal[77]
A Heavily Armed Coasting Barge[83]
The Lampman of the Gull Lightship[93]
Minesweepers going out[97]
Southampton Water[103]
'Out-Boats' in a Merchantman[105]
Firemen standing by to relieve the Watch[111]
Queen's Dock, Glasgow[116]
The Bridge-Boy repairing Flags[121]
A Transport Embarking Troops for France[125]
Transports in Southampton Docks[129]
The Leviathan docking at Liverpool[135]
Salvage Vessels off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight[141]
In a Salvage Vessel: Overhauling the Insulation of the Power Leads[145]
A Torpedoed Merchantman on the Shoals: Salvage Officers making a Survey[151]
A Torpedoed Ship in Dry Dock[157]
Dazzle[163]
An Apprentice in the Merchants' Service[171]
A Standard Ship at Sea[177]
Building a Standard Ship[179]
The Thames Estuary in War-Time[184]
Dropping the Pilot[187]
Examination Service Patrol boarding an Incoming Steamer[190]
Dawn: Convoy preparing to put to Sea[193]
Evening: Plymouth Hoe[198]
A Convoy Conference[201]
The Old Harbour, Plymouth[205]
Convoy sailing from Plymouth Sound[207]
Inward Bound[217]
A Transport Loading[219]
A Convoy in the Atlantic[224]
The Bows of the Kashmir damaged by Collision[227]
The Mayflower Quay, the Barbican, Plymouth[233]
Evening: The Mersey from the Landing-Stage[241]
The Steersman[243]
The Work of a Torpedo[244]
Transports Discharging in Liverpool Docks[245]
Troop Transports disembarking at the Landing-Stage, Liverpool[249]
'M N'[252]

THE CLYDE FROM THE TOWER OF THE CLYDE TRUST BUILDINGS