Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 103
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[Page 103]
This is I believe mostly used to expel water from tanks so as to get buoyancy - Well it's the most wonderful bit of machinery I've seen up to date -
Fancy Berant Scarlett & Moor & those doomed 32 stokers going down & down – their last meeting in that tiny wardroom & their last handshake - She'd sink like an iron plug & presently at great depth be squeezed & flattened but that must have taken time & what were those desperate men doing & thinking of? No – I'd sooner be on a destroyer than bottled up on a submarine & so I'm sure wd - my friend Haggard - If death must come I'd like to see it coming - square & straight – not drowned hopelessly like a caged animal - I asked H - whether all this complex machinery cd - be trusted at critical moments to carry out its contracts - He said – Oh yes – We're always going over & over it & seeing