Second Section
Hongkong Telegraph.
Magazine Features
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1940.
SEA POWER
By FM, KELLEY
SEA power and all it implies
is not attained overnight. It can
only be achieved through con-
turies of hard knocks and the
1: Ark Royal.
2: II.XI. King George.
3: H.MS, Kodney.
4: Some of the crew of
H.M.S, Nelson.. ...
6: Gun
ot. · II, M. 8. Warspite. They pounded
Narvik.
Nazis at
sterling virtue of stickatiti For the beginning of the story of The sea night at Lepanto was on peace with England, should be made from the army and making it an how hopeless it might have seemed King George V Class, completed or
veness. One would be almost
HISTORY
MEANING
tons each.
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command himself and calling it in in fighting ships has produced a long Drake, with his fleet and genius for great person against the Danes. Of the line of illustrious sailors, who not directing and carrying out const of Essex, Britain's first naval only fought Great Britain's seu bat enterprise, made a sorry mess of the merchant and King of Spain's effort to sweep the victory of consequence was gained tles, but navigated during Alfred's kingship.
naval vestele en voyages of explora- British from the season
Great Britain has a powerful flect Generally the ships of those early tlon into unknown seas and ploncered
the to-day. Its strength, as far as it can days were small; but there were at the way for the traders and the necessary training through con- Saracens and Turks were all power- every possible means for Its defence. tinuous contact with the sea as well ful, the latter being a particularly One always goes with the other.
Henry, II of England and Coeur de tempts ni times to build large vessels, emigrants those restless forefathers be viewed collectively, is no secret, battleships, it is sald, will displace 抗强 the tradition of achievement aggressive naval power until defeated
Always the situation, no matler 49,000 tons each, while five of the behind them, success can hardly be by that picturesque Crusader. Don Lion fostered strong navies and under Didn't Henry VIII, who did more of ours who founded. Britain's far The Lion and Temeraire, two super any ship of other nations, though at preceding monarch, "separating t permanent. It takes something more John of Austria at the Battle of arrogant John it was decreed that for the British Navy than any other flung Empire.. than steel craft and steel shells. Lepanto,
Of auch is the stuff the British the lawful prize if they refused to Independent arm, have the Henry at any stage, has produced the man nearly completed, will displace 85,000 strike to the royal flag," a decree
Navy is made at present., Emcient which would indicate that John had
ITS
a fallible human nature can make right in stating it is largely
ITS
the power to back the threat.
the Royal Navy will give a good Naval conflicts were common inherited, too.
Naval to meet and overcome the opposition. account of itself in the trouble which Ocean greatness is born
Without any
ostentation, bluster or Britain and Denmark. There was the
Service" will undoubtedly necessity; but, while the sea has navies you will have to go back to event of the Crusades and mediaeval between Britain and France, Britain always been ti heavy taskmaster, the shadowy days of that lons ago naval history is said to have ended and Spain, Britain and Holland, torians are not agreed on her ton- There is no reason for assuming now now threatens civilization
anywhere from 1,000 to 1,800 tons, any emergency that might arise in the "Silent Wreath." Sub- has always rewarded the adventurer when man foarned the log on which when "Don John of Austria rode great sea fight at Siuls, where the page; but from all accounts it was that the saler, who will be equal to
lost 300 ships and 20,000 men The Henry Grace a Dieu mounted the present world war is not ready live up to its great traditions and who aspired to see beyond its distant he had been straddleriding to get homeward with a
was the first old-time
people. It is only a question of time Royal Navy to anal victory. horizons and dauntlessly matched about in the vicinity of his cave sequently to that fight Northiem
the when it will have worn down BRITAIN'S real rise to sea power. True, that sailor will have hla courage against all the perils dwelling could be hollowed out with European countries began to develop aght In which the beaked gallays, seventy-two guns and had a comple- to step into the job and direct the continue to be the bulwark of a free
The fire and a stone, adzo, Our Arat sen power fast, the command of the with their banks of oarsmen, were ment of 700 men, we are told. Neptune could conjure up. building of sex-going ships, however, authentic picture of progress in con- son gradually centring in the lands fold aside and the vessels engaged
of the combined Fronch and the work in hend; but all those unifigs son nafe for the unhampered passage is one thing, the training of able sen nection with, navy building comes washed by the waves of the North
Alfred the Great is commonly Dutch fleets off Beachy Head in 1000. combined mean little or nothing if of men and ships of all nations, maga In the meantime the people of the men capable of manning them is quite down from Egyptian stone records, Atlantic, Denmark, the Nether Moda, propelled entirely with salis. defent to be established following the ships, the men and the money for opposition and ribke, the another matter,
the date of which Egyptologists high, Spain, France, Scandinavia
credited with being the founder of From that doje Britain has managed the director not worthy of filling the British Navy. Before his reign to maintain her superiority at sea, the shore of Britain's best sailor- British Isles, and the Expire, have every reason to thank Providence for as somewhere about 3,000 years before frequently fighting one another. Christ appeared.
THE Norman French, establishing the petty kings of Britale had, have her navy, burime nattests for free The Spanish Armdada. had the the ships of the Royal Navy and the We read that Phoenicians, their rule, greatly encouraged mari- forces of sorts, but Alfred combined among the maritime nations three to launch huge flotillas of vessels; but If the men whờ man them have not Chodeans, Greeks, Venetians, Genoese, time. developthent, and employed them into one fighing force, taking centuries. During that, time service wealth, the men and the ships, yet man who ran them.
of
A nation may possess unlimited wealth and all the ways and means
and
Dieu
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