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These ships issued ship's supplies (other
than
bulk items like provisions,
fuel, and ammunition) wherever shore
facilities were inadequate. In effect, they functioned as
floating warehouses. Of some 40,000 items required by warships of the
day, these ships carried the 5000 most essential to keeping a warship
at sea. These ranged from toiletries to medical supplies to steel plating.
References
Carter
(1953)
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