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This subject - the
"
reference to
Reversel as a gun Boat in the dispatch under consideration
is the first I have seen in which 'Reversel' has been so called.
&
I understood from the letter regarding the original acquisition, but the
for 'Sharbour service' & the clause in which it was laid down that "the
Boilers need not of necessity
be below the water line" did
not give any indication that
the vessel was intended
for
war
purposes.
As
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As before stated, nothing on the drawing of
the vessel nor was anything
said in the Requisition as to
aux...
deck house
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...
be Boiler - it would have been
a source of Endless trouble &
& the efficiency
of the Engineers would have been impaired when most wanted owing to continual forming;
had the steam
boiler
been
so reduced as to get in the Boiler surely below the
deck – it must have been
at