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Identifier: fleetfromwithinb00moserich (find matches)
Title: The fleet from within. Being the impressions of a R. N. V. R. officer
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Moseley, Sydney A. (Sydney Alexander), b. 1888
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations
Publisher: London, and Edinburgh, S. Low, Marston & co. ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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length of the top, 8o THE FLEET FROM WITHIN was the range-finder. Lamps—flash-lamp operator—was in the corner, alterna-tively using this method of communicationand the wireless method with the othersuper-Dreadnoughts who were in line aheadof us. A petty officer with a skull-cap, and witheyes glued on another delicate instrument,was calling down a telephone ; a boy watchedintently a glass cabinet which was dividedinto six shutters, each of which lighted upone by one ; another boy busily turned thehandle of a machine till certain figuresappeared—as they do on the cash register ;more boys stood by at call pipes, others attelephones—all these officers and men inthe top following the examples of theirbrethren in the bottom in shouting differ-ent things at the same time. How can a ship possibly be run on thoselines, I wondered. But I soon found thatnobody was disconcerted and that whatappeared to me to be pandemonium was well-organised routine. In fact the Commander, with a pair of
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A HUSH ! HUSH ! SHIP IN ACTION 8i powerful glases and three big speaking-tubes,found time to greet me, and invited me to squat down by his side. But the workwent on uninterruptedly. ** Speed of en-em-y sev-en. The voice of the petty officer, loud anddistinct, was echoed by a voice below : * Speed of enemy—seven. Two guns ready, sir. This from the boy watching the squareslight up—squares A and Y. Control! 7500, shouts the P.O. Whats your position correction? isthe Lieutenant-Commanders cry at the sametime. ... Right. Three guns ready, sir. Rate 150 opening. Bells, hooters, and flashes ; and then therange-finder, after half knocking your headoff, asks you to Mind your head, sir. Wind, green 25, is another cry one dis-tinguishes. A sHght pause, then : Shoot ! comes at length, but to mysurprise no shots are fired, and I find that shoot is simply a warning by the Com-6 82 THE FLEET FROM WITHIN mander on the spotting top that the rangeis correct and everything ready for firing.The comma

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