| Show LIFE ON A WARSHIP A mode modern n warship is like a moving village it has to house and feed ane anc give employment to its inhabitants and to place them at certain points al a moments notice to face unknown conditions and to face them choll and intelligently you can imagine th confusion in a village of should they be dragged out of led bed al midnight by an alarm of fire but in the floating atiniz vin vill p o rf no warship discipline and training rg have taught the inhabitants to move to certain places and to perform certain work vork when they get there within the space or iwo c does not consist entirely in manning a gun and pulling a lanyard that is IF showy work the work that tells th dispatches des patches and which is illustrated ir the papers there are also those who serve who only stand and wait 7 who see n nothing of the fighting but take equa risk with those who fight who hav none of the consciousness that all Is ik going well to inspire them but jhc remain at their post in the semi dark ness mesa below deck shaken by concussions above and not knowing how the sides of the ship may part or tt th decks below rise or a projectile crast bursting and burning through the dec deat above and choke them with vile suffocating fumes they feed the fires with coal and anc haul baul on ammunition lifts like miner in a coal pit PIL their work is just as important as is that of the gunner jhc trains and fires the big gun but aber it is over they go back and set th the table for the officers mess or play a bass viol in a string band or sweer out the engine rooms they are just as valuable to the village as is the gunners mate and they should be remembered |
