Beginning of Atlantic Ferry 69 



of tar we might perhaps find the name of 

 a vessel which was known the world over 

 in the 'sixties, 'seventies, or even 'eighties. 

 We may give them a thought as our spick 

 and span liner takes aboard its food from 

 their almost deserted decks, and then a 

 hand- wave as we glide smoothly away. 



Here is a relic with the past, and it is 

 more than possible that the deck upon 

 which we stand will take the place of one 

 of these old fellows in the not very dis- 

 tant future. 



You will be wondering perhaps, how 

 the Navy has been faring under the 

 wizard we call steam. In a later chapter 

 we shall see how the Admiralty were 

 slowly brought to the conclusion that what 

 was good for the mails might serve its 

 turn for the warship. 



