Out at sea, opposite the Parade, vessels built in the busy shipyards on the Tyne may be seen doing their speed trials over the measured mile.

Dawson, and inspectors like him, have these men everywherein shipyards, in shell shops, in gun factories, in aeroplane sheds, everywhere.

He was born and grew to boyhood in the shadow of the numerous shipyards then in active operation along the East River.