Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 87
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embossed buttons.
Outside, in the open, the wharf is a narrow strip of space between a wall of sheds on one side and a leaning wall of high-floating ships on the other.
Over-head, on slender structures of steel, are travelling cranes like huge spiders in strong webs. They creep aloft up there with some little clatter and fuss as, with extreme ease, they perform such herculean feats as hoisting fully loaded motor waggons from the wharf to the decks of troop ships.
In addition to these waggons being taken aboard there are a thousand and one suspended objects ascending in that canyon-like space between the ships and the sheds. Some are slings loaded with boxes of ammunition, with cases of bully-beef, with tins of biscuits and a variety of war materials such as barbed wire