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ROYAL NAVY
RETURN OF THE REPULSE The battle-cruiser Repulse, Captain J. H. Godfrey, is ordered to leave Malta for home en September 1. She will call at Gibraltar on September 4-5 and Tangier .on September 5-7, and should arrive
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C. qualified person discharging the Streatfeld-James and M. H. St. L duties of organist and choir, mas Nott, C.BE. Royal Indian Navy. ter in H.M. ships Caledonia Commander E R. Mainguy, Roya!
Rosyth), St. Vincent (Gasport) Canadian Navy. and Wildfire (Sheerness), or in
FLEET NEWS IN BRIEF any other training establishment
The netlayer Guardian, Captain which may be created in future.
G. W. Wadham, returned to De- A sidlar allowance was thorized in 1900 in the training vonport on August 8 from Rosyth.
The battleship Resolution, com. at Portsmouth on September 11. establishment at Shatley and H.M.
missioned last month by Captain For the past month the Repulse ships Impregnable, Fisgard, and C. H. Knox-Little as a boys' train- has been on duty at Halfa, where Indus. The Fisgard and Indus cea another ship of the Mediterranean sed to be training establishments Fleet will relleve her.
In January, 1933, and August, 1922, respectively..
NAVAL AIR DIVISION Commander H.
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A. Trall pro- moted in the midsummer 1st. 15 to join the Naval Air Division at the Admiralty. on reverting to to cates general naval service
Lieutenant-Commander P. C. L. Yorke, an observer officer from the Courageous, also joins the Naval Air Division
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Commencing at 2.30 pm.
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A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE"
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Comprising:-
16, 1938.
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WEDNESDAY, the 17th AUGUST, 1938.
Commencing at 2.30 p.m.
At the Sales Room, No. 2
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Comprising:-
ENTRY OF SHIPWRIGHTS The Admiralty have found it destroyer Whitehall in use for boys' necessary as a temporary messure training at Devonport until about number of naval December.. The cruisers Diomede shipwright apprentices of not less and Caradoc are also employed in than 18 years of age who have had training boys at this port.
H.M.S. Argus has been completed not less than two-and-a-half years'
Divans. 'Wardrobes, Dressing apprenticeship in civil Jife. and to as a training carrier and parent
Tables, Azmchairs, Chairs, Chester- retain them
the naval ship for wireless-controlled target
Beld Suites Sideboards, Desks. dockyards until they have com-aircraft, and "after embarking ́a COMPLETION OF THE
Typewriter Tables, Cabinets, Book- pleted the normal
years' full crew will leave Devonport for Avc
cases, Ice Chests, Outlery, Glasses, MANCHESTER
training, after which they are to be Portsmouth on August 10. Captain
Porcelain Ware, & P. and Brass Benn, late Director of H.M.S. Manchester, the first advanced to shipwright, 5th class. W. G.
Blackwood Ware, Teakwood Din-Ware. Radio Sets, Gramophones cruiser to be named after hat city new Order in Council provides Navigation, is in command
ingroom, Bedroom Drawingroom and Records. Electric Table Lamps was commissioned on August 3 at that these special entries shall be
AIR MATERIAL DEPARTMENT and Office Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, and Fans. Carpets, Rugs, Orná- the Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard of merged for purposes of pay as
Lieutenant-Commander W. T. Ornaments, Pictures, Porcelain and ments, Curios, Enamel Bath, Cook- Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. and left apprentices (but not for naval
Couchman, from the aircraft-car-Glass Ware, E. P. and Brass Ware. ing Stove. Cooking Utensils etc.. for Portsmouth, where she will pre-pension purposes as if their pre-rier Courageous, is appointed from Electric Table Fans and Lamps.. etc. pare for service on the East In-vious apprentice service had been August 3 to the new Department Sewing Machine, Gramophones and dies Station, in place of the Rhter- In the Royal Navy.
Records, Shanghai Bath, Cooking
OFFICERS FOR STAFF COURSE
Stove, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc. The following have been selected to undergo the staff course Greenwich which begins in fa-
uary next:-
prisc.
The Manchester, authorized in 1935, belongs to the Southampton. class of cruiser, but has certain Improvements upon the earlier ave ships authorized in 1933-34 and completed during 1937. Her dis- placement is 9,300 tons, compared with" 9,100 tons, the horse-power has been increased from 75,000 to 82,500, and the designd speed from 32 to 32.3 knots.
Captain H. H. Bousfeld. from the R.N. College, Greenwich, assumed command of the Manchester in
January.
HOME FLEET STAFF Commander C. C. Hughes-Hal lett, from the Naval Ordnance De partment. has been appointed to the Nelson for duty as staff officer |(operations), with the Commander- In-Chief, Home Fleet, in succession to Captain B. B. Schofield. pro- moted in the midsummer list.
TRAINING SHIP ORGANISTS A new Order in Council sanctions the payment of an allowance of
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Commanders M. Rähmond, M. B. Laing, G. V. Gladstone, P. Skeltone
3. Warne, L C. Sirker. R
or Air Material, Admiralty.
ROYAL AIR FORCE
NEW APPOINTMENTS The Air Ministry announces the following appointments:-
Air Vice-Marshal Henry Meyrick
H. R. Graham, W. H. Selby. J. W. Cave-Browne-Cave, C.B. D.5.0..
M Eaton, W. J. Yendell, and H.D.F.C., to be Air Officer Command. Lovegrove,
ing. No. 25 (Armament) Group, Royal Air Force, with effect from August 17, 1938. vice Air Com- Bentley Dacre. (D.S.O.."who has beer in temporary
command since March 26.
Lieutenant-Commanders 5. H Pinchin, W. J. W. Woods, R. B. Hennywill. W. Evershed. G. A modore. George Rotherham. A. C. R. Duvall, G. A. * Norfolk, A D. Lenox-Con yngham, D. A. H. Hornell, M.V.O., E. "Hale, J. G. Forbes, and L. H. Landman
Lieutenants D. Edwardes, Str Michael Culme-Seymour, R. B. N. Hicks, and G. F. M. Best.
Major H. A. Bass and Captains H. C. G. Blandford, W. S. North. and G. W. Ross, Royal Marines.
Wing Commander S. F. Vincent. A.FCd Squadron Leader A. D. Gillmore. A
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age of 50. Air Commodore K. R.Two Typewriters. Air Commodore George Ranald Park. M.C., p.3.C., AF.C.. has been Macfarlane Reid, DS.O., M.C., to appointed Senior Adr. Staff Officer be Air Officer Commanding, British in the Fighter Command, Stan- Forces in Aden, with effect from amore. dáte in September, 1938. vice Air Commodore William Ashton Mc- Claughry, D.SO., M.C., D.F.C.
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FIGHTER COMMAND STAFF
ENGINEERING INSTRUCTION Wing Commander L M lles. A.F.C.. from the command of No. 102 (Bomber) Squadron at Honing-
In succession to Air Commodoreten, has been appointed to Henlow A. D. Cunningham, C.BE who re-for engineer duties in the School tired last month on attaining the of Aeronautical Engineering.
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the 18th AUGUST. 1938
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