Give you speed, at the cost of carrying power, but makes a wet ship in a head sea." "She is wet," Lister agreed with a smile.

"Last run we couldn't keep the water out of the stokehold.

Had to cover and batten gratings, and then a boat fetched adrift and smashed the engine skylights." "What's your rating ?" Cartwright asked.
Lister told him and he remarked: "You have made some progress!" "I was lucky.

She burst some boiler tubes in my watch.

We were steaming hard, head to an ugly sea, with a lot of cattle on board, and were forced to keep her going.