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44/45/46 - Pilot boat Sandy Hook, built 1902, 361grt, in collision and sunk off New Jersey on 27 April 1939.

47 - Hands washing decks. 48 - Hosing down decks.

49 - Believed to be 4.7-inch gun with shield. 51 - Lookout in the crow's nest.
50/52 - The range finder.

53 - HMS Caronia. 54/55 - HMS Glory, battleship, escorted Canadian troop convoy in October 1914, joined North American and West Indies Station as flagship, transferred to Mediterranean June 1915 (Conway's All the World's Warships 1906-1921).

56/57/58 - Sea boat drill.

59/60 - Field drill.

61 - Believed to be with US schooner Edward B Winslow off American coast on 14 April 1915. No casualties and minimal damage (www.chriscunard.com). 62 - Clearing snow of the deck at Halifax.

63/64/65 - Painting the ship overside at sea, and no safety equipment!

66 - The second cabin dining saloon, presumably now a storeroom. 67 - Mascot number 2.

68 - The stoke hold. 69 - Engine room personnel.

70 - HMS Glory (see 54/55). 71 - HMS Essex, armoured cruiser, served in North America and West Indies (NA&WI) Station.
72 - HMCS Niobe, 1st class cruiser, also NA&WI. Paid off at Halifax October 1915, disarmed as depot ship (Conway's All the World's Warships 1906-1921).

73 - HMS Glory.
74 - RMS Lusitania, another Cunard liner, sailed from New York 1 May 1915, torpedoed and sunk off S Ireland on 7 May with the loss of some 1,198 passengers and crew.

75 - HMS Caronia.
76 - Semaphore apparatus. 77 - Possible supply boat alongside; possibly HMS Essex in background.

78 - RMS Adriatic, White Star liner on Liverpool-New York route. 80 - HMS Caronia.
79 - Dutch prize ship SS Noordam, Holland America Line, stopped by HMS Caronia on 8 September 1914 according to her log book. Ship appears to have been released. 81 - HMS Lusitania.

82 - HMS Carnarvon, armoured cruiser, North America & West Indies Station 1915-18.

83 - Deck cleared of snow. 84 - Signalman probably taking down signal from Yeoman of Signals. 85 - Hands clearing deck of snow.

86 - Snapshot from forward funnel looking forward. 87 - From the crow's nest looking aft.