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this subject - the

"

reference to

Reversel as a fun Bost in the dispatch under consideration

is the prit I have seen in which theresiel has been so called.

&

I understood from the letter reumpangning the original aequi-

-sition but the

for Sharbour sewric" & the clanse in which it was laid down that "the

Boilers need not of recessity

be below the water line" ded

indication that

not-

give any the vessel was intended

for

War

purposes.

As

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As before stated nothing the drawing of

was shewn

on

he vessel nor was anything

said in the Requisition as to

aus.

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be Boiler - it would have been

a source of Endless trouble &

& the officierney

Annoyance

of the Empics would have been impaired when most wanted owing o conterinal formming;

had the steam

loour

been

so reduced as to get in the Briber suturily below the

dech – it aunst have been

at