Of course during the First World War it was very very busy, it
was very busy with transports and ammunition ships and God knows
what else. You 'ad about half a dozen ships who were doing nothing
else but carrying horses across. During the First World War the
tugs were always busy because you 'ad a convoy went away every
night, there was a convoy ships when they ... the slower ones used
to start off early and then the fast ones, what we called the
flyers that were takin' the troops across, that was the fast small
fast turbine ships and one or two paddle ships, they used to go, go
away later, that was between 10 and midnight and the last one that
sailed always at two o'clock in the mornin' was the hospital ship
and they were mainly requisitioned railway boats, Great Western
Railway ships and that sort of thing and the St Andrews, St Pauls,
St David ...
