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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA
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in them, though it was fast trickling out of the numerous cracks momentarily being made by the splinters.

We, of course, did everything possible: tried to plug the holes, and brought up water in buckets.[1] I am not certain if the scuppers had been closed on purpose, or had merely become blocked, but practically none of the water we used for the fire ran overboard, and it lay, instead, on the upper deck. This was fortunate, as, in the first place, the deck itself did not catch fire, and, in the second, we threw into it the smouldering débris falling from above-merely separating the burning pieces and turning them over.

Seeing Flag Sub-Lieutenant Demchinsky

  1. ↑ By the Admiral's order the iron oil drums, instead of being thrown away, had been converted into buckets, and these home-made contrivances were placed about the decks.
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