| There he lay, along one side of the tank between the engine and the sponson. |
| A 15-man life raft is installed either side in the forward section of each sponson. |
| An eager gunner endeavoured to pass one of the tanks, but his gun caught the sponson and slipped off into the mud. |
| A bomb exploded directly beneath the sponson, where the dead body had fallen. |
| The three davits for the deployment of landing craft and the patrol boat are relocated to a sponson installed on the port side of the ship instead of on the flight deck. |
| He leaned on the rail and watched the departure of the officer of the faded blue cap with his crew of the sponson boat. |
