The spaces next to the ship's side are principally coal bunkers, and may, therefore, exclude largely any water that should enter.
They first hit her at 9:28 on the waterline with a shell that flooded a coal bunker.
The first engine was only 8,880 mm long due to the lack of a coal bunker on the driver's cab.
All were built with straight sided bunkers but from 1931 all except the first two of the 1927 trio were fitted with revolving coal bunkers.
I believe that in fact she was not struck in her coal bunker, but in another compartment.
But a larger displacement of coal has been caused by the loss of our coal bunker trade.
A coal bunker is situated in her garden, as it always has been.
