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A NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL. BY LIEUT. COMMANDER HL HASLEWOOD.
"Found Guilty by Court-Martial Portsmouth of negligently 4 by default. stranding the cruiser Raleigh off Labrador. Commander Leste Charles Both, N., Was dismissed his ship and severely repri manded."
The abovo announcement, reveals a double tragedy, for it tells of the loss of a gallant ship and the ruination of a young naval offioor's carrier.
The Court-martial was held at Ports mouth in the famous old Victory, and in ons of her cabins could have boon seen a number of senior officers assembled there by order of the President of the Court.
A post captain, himself a specialist in navigation and well known throughout the Navy for his expert knowledge, was appointed as the Prosecutor.
Another officer, also a specialist, took the role of what is known as "Prisoner's Friend."
His duties were to help and advise, with his expert knowledge, the prisoner în bis defence.
Courts-martial are still carried out with rigid and Boleton ceremony, which befits the gravity of the circumstances of their constitution.
On the night before the trial an officer talls upon the prospective prisoner to de- liver up his sword, and on the assembly of the court on the following morning this
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sword may be seen, laid crossways, on the AGENTS In Hongkong table immediately in front of the President. At 8 am on the following morning a gun is fired as a signal, from the ship on which the court is to assemble..
This is an old custom. and is known throughout the service as "the one gun
salute.!!
The trial is carried out with strict justice and impartiality,
The Prosecutor presents his case and calls his witnesses; the prisoner, together with his "Friend," presents his witnesses for the defence.
The final scene is dramatic.
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"The prisoner withdraws from the cabin while the verdict is being considered.
On being recalled, the prisoner knows before one word has been spoken whether
the verdict is guilty or not guilty.
The position of the prisoner's sword, which up till now has been lying crossways in front of the President, has been altered.
If the prisoner has been found guilty, it has been placed so that as he enters he finds the point of the sword lying towards him; if not guilty,with the hilt towards him: In practice, however, there is generally very little doubt as to the verdict.
A ship has been stranded and lost, and the blame must almost inevitably fall on the navigating officer, and so it has been. in the case quoted at the bead of this arti-la.
What of the officer himself?
He may have been over confident of the position of the alip. He dy ture made some slight error in calculation. He may bave been prer-tired and relaxed for a moment the intense concentration that is necessary for perfect navigation.
Whatever the cause, his future career is ruined. The sentence of the court is that he shall be dismissed his ship."
It is really a technical term which means that he is to be placed on half-pay.
The second part of the sentence is that he should be "severely reprimanded.” *
This latter is of little consequence, Ha has lost a ship, and under normal con. ditions be cannot reasonably hope for say good appointments in the future.
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A navigating officer to all intents and purposes has the entire responsibility for the safe passage of his ship. The extr pay (over and above that of the non-special- this ist officer) that he receives for responsibility, which involves the safety of perbapa a thousand lives and the care of a ship worth pertaps some millions of pounds, is 4s, or 5a, a day, according to cir cstances, but in any case a maximum off 91. 58. a year. They are not mercenary motives, therefore, that induce young officers. to undertake such great responsibilities. No, there is a far higher motive than that. It is love for their ship; love for their Navy love for their Empire and a loyal willingness to serve all three to their utmost
Commander Bott will take bis misfortuner in the way naval officers do také such things. Perhaps the rest of us; while recognising that he may baro made some technical mistake, will be proud to realise that there are such man willing to take such responsi bilities, not for personal gain, but in order. to ensure the safety of England and the glorious' traditions of his Majesty's Navy.
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A remarkable incident occurred during the voyage of the Cunard Liner Nythia, which arrived at Liverpool on November on November 1st at the annual meeting 4th from New York, When some 400 of the Papyrus Lodge of Freemasons; miles out from the American shore, with No. 2582 (a lodge darticularly associated a strong basterly wind blowing, a flock with the paper trade), at the Hotel Cecil, of birds numbering several thousands when Mr. George James Ralph was taken alighted on the ship's deck. It is pre- Buddenly and passed away within a sumed that they had been blown out to few minutes Mr. Ralph, who was in his during migration from North 67th year, was a director of Mears, John to South America. The species included Gordon & Co., Ltd., papermakers' agente, wild canaries, redbreasts, linnete, 320, Queen Victoria atreet, and was a mort thrashes, sand pipers, junccs, three owls, energetic and respected member of the and carrier pigeons One ow! was of a trade In Freemasonry he was Master of particularly ferocious type, with a cat the Papyrus Lodge in 1901, had been like face and two horns. The owla and Almoner for several years, and was to pigeons were captured, hat a number of bavo assisted the Master (Mr: George the smaller birds died from exhaustion. Buchanan) to instal hiš, successor. The birds were quite at home in the ship's late Mr. Ralph was a member of London, garden lounges, with their growing trees Rank, and was a keen supporter of the and shrubs." Many of the birds were still three Royal Masonic institutions, quali flying about the vessel's, deck on arrival fring himself and his wife as life at Liverpool. They had become parti- governors of more than one His death cularly tame, feeding.from-passengers's took place while one of his co-directors, bands. Old sea travellers state that they Mr. Charles Newell, P., was conduct- have not known birde in such numbers to ing & Ceremony, in the presence of a large alight on one ship Their numbers were nasembly, who had gathered together for The meeting was so great that they were even flying about the annual meeting. in the engine-rooni.
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