Poem ~ Bottom Plug - Saturday, 22 May 1915

Impression sketch of hole being plugged - by Jamie.

When true facts become yarns,

That happens to be true, such

Unlikely truths are stuff of myths.

The ship Ocean was in process

Of sinking into deep waters;

Alongside her was a destroyer.

When a Turkish shell intended

For the Ocean cut into side

Of the destroyer, a young stoker,

On seeing this, quickly took action -

To say that he pushed into ‘the

Breach, a bulky part of his anatomy.

A rear part for which the civil world

Had invented to use on a chair.

The seawater was firmly plugged.

The ship's stoker smirked happily

With self satisfaction, holding

Position until ship's side made safe.

 by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. Stoker’s Bright Idea. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 22 May. P.9. Col.7. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11621705/Daily-Telegraph-May-22-1915.html [Accessed: 22 May 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 22 May 2015). 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11621705/Daily-Telegraph-May-22-1915.html

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