 Also during the course of the action, a sailor from the small seaplane tender , unable to return to his own ship, had reported on board for duty, and was immediately assigned a station on a .30 in (7.62 mm) machine gun.Oil from ruptured battleship fuel tanks had been set afire by fires on those ships, and the wind, from the northeast, was slowly pushing it toward "Avocet's" berth.Accordingly, the seaplane tender got underway at 10