tank-boats

Updated: May 28, 2025

The sergeants do the swearing, The corporals "carry on"; The private cusses openly, And hopes he'll soon be gone. One evening the colonel sent me from our dug-out near the Salt Lake to "A" Beach to make a report on the water supply which was pumped ashore from the tank-boats. I trudged along the sandy shore.

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.

Care must be taken not to mistake the Pongole river seen from the offing, and which lies ten miles farther southward. The only stock procurable here were hogs at ten dollars the picul, and water shipped off in China tank-boats at four and a half dollars the ton. The next port is Mompava, about sixteen miles to the northward of Pontiana, and the second port belonging to the sultan.

Rajah of Sarawak James - The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy