Shipboard sanitation offered relief at Gallipoli

M33 provided a place to wash and a flushing toilet within the compact hull. Proper fixed sanitation mattered because the crew could not safely rely on improvised arrangements over the bow or stern while the ship manoeuvred or fought. Soldiers ashore at Gallipoli valued opportunities to visit ships partly because they could use those facilities. An ordinary shipboard provision therefore gave the monitor practical value to the land force beyond its guns.