Transfering supplies by Lyle Line
Here we see supplies being transfered to a Norwegian tanker using a Lyle line, which would have been fired between the two ships using a small cannon when the weather was too rough to use ships boats. Note the gun on the bow of the tanker.
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Rickard, J (5 November 2021), Transfering supplies by Lyle Line , http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_supply_lyle_line.html