The bridge also carries a ductway accommodating power ducts, telephone ducts, and inspection walks.

In December 1919 she was forty-five years old and more aware than ever that her destiny was to be a maidish one: to look after her ageing mother (by whom she was permanently irritated), to offer emotional succour to her younger siblings […]

But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.

She was a silver-haired, rather portly dwarfess...and the most powerful enchantress in Ilsdale, if not in the known world.