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*The dookyard party landed at 9.30 am. returning on board at 11.30; landed again at 1.30, and came on board at 3.30, which finished tlus day's work.
good, and the good of the Service which is his pride. He is no barnacio, In his introduction he refers to the first roform memorandum isuued by Lord Bolborne about six years ago:
The Navy has bran flooded with a series of reforms and reorganisations nutil it may be taid to have been reduced to a state of flux, from which it is gradually emerging to a state of
TARNS OF THE SEA.
INNER LIFE OF THE NAVY.
The ways they hare in the Navy are past finding out. Laudeman dan never understand the manner of life which oflcers and men lead, They are cut off from the shore by the very nature of their calling, and more so to-day than for many years, because the Flest is more continuously on active service. Nevor ih mo dorn times has the veil boen lifted as completely as has been done by Mr. Lionel Yexley in hisa
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entitled "The rominiscences, recent book Inner Life of the Navy"
As a town-bred lad who had never seen the aes, the author, at an early age presented himself for enlistment at the Swan and orseshoe at Westminster, which a famous recuiting sor geanta merino made bis hoodquarters, and where he spun alluring yarns of the way they haro in the Navy. Le had cultivated the art of descriptivo lying to an orient which would have put Baron Munchausen to shame. After medical examination, the young hopeful with somy companions was seen off by train, bound for Devonport, by the sergeant, who comforted them with the assurance that when they arrived at their journoy's end a "a nice hot suppor would be mentioned beef steak pio and sex- them. He even went into details, and dry other choice viands,
What a romancer that man was!" remarks Mr. Yoxley, apparently The Galatex, though a recently comploted with something of pride in the sergeant's woll-craiser, was by no means ready for ses. derfal powers. Thus his life in the Navy was carried two 9.2in guns, one forward and one
The supposed object in landing the men was to carry out work on ships routting or lying in the basin, drawing stores, &o, but during my short experience it became apparent that a great many more men were lauded than could be pre-efficiency for war. fitably employed, and only those worked who liked to work.
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"One gang would get hold of a dockyard hand- cart and simply wheel it round, the dockyard at crawling pace; others would disappear in ail-lofts or store-rooms and pick up a quiet corner where they could sleep till "seven tolls"; the whole object of coming on shore was so obviously to kill time that so long as theso in charge-a warrant officer and several potty officers-could get sufficient men to do any work that actually required doing, they seemed only too glad that the residue ahanld make them selves scarce till it was time to go back on board. To employ men at drill or any kind of useful instraction on board was not thought of."
HOW SHIPS WERE MOBILISED
"Mobilising" in thembject of one chapter. It deals with the good old days" before there worn nuclens crews. Mr. Yellay, on his retura from the Mediterranean, received orders to the dockyard basin," for the summer mandares join his Majesty's ship Galatea "then lying in and a Royal review.
Sho
to open with a surprise, for the nice hot aft, with a battery of 6in. guns on the upper supper
on board the training chip Impreg deck on each side. These guns, had been hastily nable turned out to be nothing more elaborate
sofinished
on board, but could not be used, owing to the than "great square of bread and “steaming
wtate of the mountings, and basing full of some inky fluid, which we sub-the game could be said cf ofkor" of the sequently discovered to be tes," with, as ac ship's armament. Still, the order had companiment, the "bacher," a tin utenell con- evidently gone forth that everything that taining treacle. From the training-ship life, could float was either to steam or be towed to with all its vicissitudes, the young sailor was Spithead, to take part in the view, so we pro drafted to a ganboat, in which he experienced corded out of harbour, and picked up our position his first gale, which, apparently, come near somewhere off Cowes. ending his carcer.
SHOWING THE FLAG.
It was a typical small man-of-war of the period.
Never did I experience such a táme na tho next few weeks provided. Some of the off serv had been called up from half-pay, and had us The guns consisted of two 64-pounders and experience of a modern ship, while the ores had been gathered together from all quartors, tha one light 7in, muzzle-loader. The after 64-bulk of them just returned from foreign service, pounder was in the captain's cabin, and could with a sprinkling of coastguards. not be need unless the same was pulled to pieces, so the earliest opportunity was taken to give it several casts of white enamel, and there it rested safe and nutroubled as long as it remained in the ship; that it was exceedingly dangerous to cast the other gune loose, except in the finest of finest of fine weather, we had unpleasant ex perience before we were much older.
This type of vessel was very common at the time, our foreign squadrons being mainly com posed of such, carrying out the duty of what we in fact, some of now term "showing the flag in them were to be found in the Navy List up to the beginning of the present century."
When two days sail from Aden, the men were sent to "general quarters," when all the guns were supposed to be cast loose, and the grew exercived at the different gun drills. It was "practically the first gan drill of the com: mission and one gun's erratic behaviour so nearly caused the ship to founder that never again were the guns cast loose except in the quiet waters of the Persian Gulf. As to the gunnery practice of those days, the author writes:
"Being a torpedo man, I was placed in charge of the after submerged torpedo tube, but as I had over seen a submerged torpedo tube before in my life, nor the clam of torpedo with which the Galaten was supplied, I was as helpless as the proverbial babe. The torpedo instructor and the leading torpedo-man were in a like plight.
"I also found myself coxswain of the steam- cattor, in which jobs I futtered myself I should ba quito at home, having a pretty fair knowledge of the handling of steamboats, Not so
my leading-stoker, who found himself in the same position with the boat's engines as I was with my torpado tubo he had never been in a steam boat before. Unfortunately for him, he coulü not do with his engine what I did with my tube- love it alone, as the boat had to do all boat duty. for the ship, and from the first trip at Spithead till the last one whon her nose was amashed in coming too violently in collision with the ship's side we lived a life of excitement und explosions!"
ADVENTURES OF A LEADING STOKER.
The tale of this boat's adventures is a brightly- written story of the evils of the old system of **Every quarter we would go outside to expend mobilisation. The leading stoker, we are told, the ammunition allowed by the regulations for was given some instruction in his duties, and quarterly heavy-gar practice. Sometimes we the boat was the ordered te ge slongside the would drop a ram eask with a flag attached as starboard after gangway, so the coxswain made target, though, as a general rule, our only wide dizele round the stern of the Galatea. target was the sky-line, as this saved the Stop hor! But the engines went merrily on, trouble of getting a ret
on board at the We just grazed the gangway, there was not time enil of the firing
ari inch
"This quartarly expendita ainmunition to steer ber outside the starboard boom, so under was a very peculiar feature of ice Bife, Theit we went, the funnel just sloaring by about purpose for which it was allowed by the Govern meat was, of course, to teach the nien how to shoot with heavy gume.”
The original idea of the Admiralty had, how. evor, been forgotten in the roatine of a service which still prided itself mainly on the lore of the sailing days:
There were so many rounds of ammunition allowed to each gun for expenditure each quarter, and they had to be got rid of Some ships con scientiously put them into the sea-through the guns others put them into the sea without frambling to are the guns for the purpose, and one method was just as good as another sa far as results were concorned, because in both case the object was to get the beastly things into the water as quickly as possible with or without The whole of the ammunition was thrown away, whether it went through the guns or not. And no one saw anything. wrong in the practice."
CHRISTMAS UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Then from the bridge: Steam cutter! Come alongside you fool; what are you doing?
Can't, air; the leading stoker can't stop the
engines.
The same day there was an explosion-the safety ping blew out and then came the crisis. "By this thue the poor leading stoker was in a state of nervousness bordering on collapse; and the climax was reached a few days later, when the boat was clied away' to take the captain on an official visit to the flagship, about two
down the line.
The blowing out of the safety-plag had fully impressed on the mind of the leading-stokor the necessity of keeping water in the boiler, so as 1001 as wo were called away he had set his pomp going. The presence of the captain in the boat had no doubt so added to his nervousness that he evidently forgot all about the pump, and hardly had we gaf clear of the ship when she began to "prime, There are still men-of-war patrolling the and great black splashes of sooty mand were Persian Gulf and officers and man who have to ejected from the top of the funnel into the make the best of Christmas ander the most stern sheets, where sat the captain in full-dress
uniform. anfavourable conditions. Mr. Yoxley tells of It was too much for the leading stoker; he his Christmunat Babrien, which his slip reached simply lost all control of himself, and stood late on Christinas Eve. It was intended to send stark still, with tears running down his cheeks a boat ashore in the morning for such seasonable
as he gazed at the growing volumes of mud fare as could be obtained. But the day brought pouring out of the funnel. Let me draw a veil with it a tremendous hurricane, with thunder and lightning, and there was nothing for it bat to make the best of pork and pease soup for the day's festive dinaer, with the pleasure which might be derived from the "splicing of the mainbraca."
over the next few muinenta the combination of mud and other things is not fit to spread over
these pages."
War,
*TER GOOD OLD DATS."
the cruise lasted their crews would be busily employed holystoning decks, cleaning point, and polishing bright work, and when the cruise was over the ships would be returned to the dock yard basin to rust for another year.
Such was the state of one of the ships in.. Ye gods and little fishes! What constitutions spected by the German Emperor. The system was bad. The unmanned men-of-war were Britishers must have Salt pork and pease taken direct from, the dockyard basins-many soup, and on the top of it rum, with the of them in and state of disrepair, “their crowe temperature of the lower deck about 120deg wore thrown indiscriminately together from all Fahrenheit. Still Christmas is Christus, sources, and they wore sent to sea as ready for and it, takes more than tropical thunder Mr. Yorley relates that during the time storms and salt pork to knock the spirit out of the average Englishman on that day. Such was the case with us, and after the dinner was cleared away
and
the grog was on the table, all hands settled down to a sing-song.
"One of the priveleges of Christmas Day in the Navy is that smoking is allowed on the mess deck, and on ours assumed the dousity of a mid-Channel fog. The small ventilating hatches were battened down to keep out the rail, for the heat had warped and shrunk them to such an extent that canvas covers were neces- sary. So unmerous candles were lighted, each adding its quota to the general heat.
Once the singing was started every discom fort was forgettan, and men who had never given veice before daring the commission joined in or added to the general melody."
From
the crew got to choruses, and then to dancing, and then, in the intense heat and fog of smoke, one garment after another was abandoned. Thus was the tradition of Christmas kopt alive in this ship.
This was the social side of life, and there does not seem to have been much attempt to make the vessel war efficient. "During the whole of my time in this ship, the author states, "I say no heavy gun-firing carried out. Sail was the thing of the e period. Kit regulations in the Jays were a remarkable institution and in this volume are some stories of the cystom of police. bribery, which was established in the old Duke of Wellington, the depôt ship at Portsmouth.
DOCKYARD "WORKING” PARTIES.
But of the tales of the Old Duke," it would be difficult to find anything better than Mr Yaxley's reminiscences of the "working, par ties "sent daily into the dockyard :
*This is no overdrawn picture, as it is safe to say that quite 75 per vent, of the old reservo Best were not only not fit for rar, but not it for sea. The whole thing was a mockery and make-believe, and was not discontinued until the nuclous-crew system was introduced in 1904.
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At this time undoubtedly apart from the well-manned squadron in the Mediterranean, so largo a proportion of the best officers and mon were in non-fighting ships, “showing the fag, as it was styled, that adequate crews were not available for the real ighting ships. After linelosing the efficiency on board the mobilisad ships, Mr. Yoxley adds:
The Channel Fleet, which was the main British Fleet outside the Mediterranean, was in a similar plight as regards the crews of vessels. These wore composed mainly of boys and young ordinary seamen, the prime seamen of the Navy the real ighting material were distri buted all over the world in wretched ganhoats.
"The ships of the Channel Fleet were not even properly commissioned, and so had no standing crows, but at the end of
few months every would return to their hone ports and discharge portion of their crews for more boys. There was not, in fact, a single efficient feat in the British Navy outside the Mediterranean, and the fighting efficiency of that must be judged from the description I have given of it.”
Like all who have served in the Fleet of late years, Mr. Yoxloy has been under the harrow of raform, but he realises that it was for his own
"For nearly a hundred years previous to this. it bad enjoyed a state of quiescence, till officers and men had practically lost sight of the fact that its primary function was war; and thongk during the closing years of the last century there had been rantterings of reform, Lord alborne's memorandum was the first rude awakening it received.
"Once the bosom of raform was set in motion, a clean sweep was evidently decided on, and au affrighted sarvieu found itself, boing hustled ont of the lethargy of a prolongad peace routius into a strenuous preparation for war."
Apart from the light which the author sheds on the social sities of life on the lower deck, the main interest of his work lies in his reflec tions on the Navy as it is to day and as it was in pre-reform times. Mr. Texley has viewed naval life from many points, and these pages contain bis verdict, which is not against the scis life.
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In alosing his interesting chapters of outo- "biography he remarks that " if, the hand of the reformer is heavy on the Navy to-day, it is, I foel certain, hrough no desire simply to upset an establisher, and time-honoured system, but to save the nation from the horrors ai degrada- tion of Tawhima."
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