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