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as the Coal is very Bad and it keeps you on the move from the time you go down to the yime you come up while the fans are going full bore. (21st.) Candidates for Ship's Band are having a meeting on the Well Deck at 12.30 PM. Precided over by the Chaplin. Distance steamed at 9 Knots, 177 Knots up to 12 Noon 21st. Again the Watch Keepers are being studided as the Ammunition Supply Party is being supplyed by the day work hands. We passed into Tropic's about 7 AM, which entitles the Stokers to 1/- per day extra while in the Tropics and it is well earned. We passed Cape Capricorn about 7 AM. Roll on the time when some of the Old pensioner's are discharged out of this Navy and things may be a bit cheerful for the younger hands, but at present things are very sad. We are now very busy supplying Cap Common Shell to all guns for practice, this is the first shell fired as a rule. Doctor is giving Lecture's on first Aid Work and Strectch Bearing to all Non Combatants. We were Payed a fortnights Pay £3. 5s. 6d. Ship's Book's number 96. Carried out firing with .303 Tubes, Collier towing Target. The 12 to 4 middle Watch was the Hardest Watch I have had fore some time and I think if I had have had to do another Hour we would never have stuck through it. The Telamotor Gear went wrong again and we had to steer by hand gear. Carried Out General Quarters in slow time so as to get every one familiar with their Stations. 2nd day in Tropics.
22nd December 1916
The Stokers are told off for their Stations and Quarters in Action and Fire, and Abandon Ship.