LXXXI
“OILING”: A BATTLESHIP TAKING IN OIL FUEL AT SEA
Viewed from the bridge. A large oil “tanker” is alongside. Unseen, but very fast, the oil fuel is running into the battleship. How great a boon this new fuel is can be understood, at any rate partly, by those who have endured the coaling of a great ship in the old way. The scene shown in the drawing was animated by the changeful gleam of the gay signal flags flapping in the foreground and by the flashing of the wings of innumerable hungry gulls.
LXXXII
ON A BATTLE-CRUISER (H.M.S. “LION”)
The ship’s funnel behind and the sailor’s figure on the left help to give the scale of the great gun.
