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THE Ulidia was a typical "three-island" tramp steamer -3081 tons gross; 330' x 42′ × 21', built by Redhead's at Shields in 1903: so much was to be gathered from Lloyd's Register.

For thirteen years she had plodded round the world at eight or nine knots on her lawful occasions, carrying her five thousand tons or so of cargo-a good honest ship for her owners, and a comfortable ship for her officers and crew. It is to be supposed that in those thirteen years she had had her share of the trials and vicissitudes common to all ships; but for me her history began in September 1916 with a sheaf of telegrams in a dusty file at the Salvage Section of the Admiralty-a file entitled "Details of wrecks on the

VOL. CCVIII.-NO. MCCLVII.

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