Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 101
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[Page 101]
arrangement of the lenses you seen the water & anything on it - I turned it round & saw the Upolu & cd count the skins of the slain sheep & I'd never noticed this on the Upolu - Then there are markings designed to show distance from of an enemy or anything else - Then I saw the apparatus that tells how far down you are sub mare - Then the electric apparatus that moves the gear that shifts the hydro planes that allow you to go down – by being tilted - I gazed at the wireless apparatus & the funny little box, about the size of 3 kerosene cases where wireless sits & listens & talks -
Then I worked my way forward – bent low & perspiring freely – two lovely tubes quite ready for their devil's work & 2 spare torpedoes swing above them – ready to do their roving mission & bump any German ship afloat - I saw a bit of an apparatus swinging at the end of some a coil - It was a short