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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