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April 30- 1941.
By Walt Disney
THE CORVETTE
saves convoys
British merchant shipping losses have been getting smaller. Why? The corvette, Britain's new type of warship, now being built on mass production liner, is Here A. J. McWhinnie tells you part of the answer. about life in these tiny saviours of the convoys.
HE
THE
Atlantic outlook is brightening.
For a fortnight I have been sailing thousands of miles out there, investigating the dan- gers, assessing the possibili- ties for the immediate future, and observing changes and developments in our uncensing fight against the
U-boats across the biggest battlefront of all.
Things have been moving rapidly since my last Atlantic trip with a destroyer in De- cember.
Outstanding are these facts, gathered with our Northern patrols and later with the vital
from the, convoys Americas.
British escort forces out there to-day are steadily being strengthened.
Ships may still be torpedoed at times. But the chances of convoys getting through are better than they were at the beginning of the winter.
There are several develop- ments which, if even hinted at, would be of vital value to the enemy.
The ships of this particular convoy had their holds stucked with foodstuffs and war sup-
and plies
America.
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planes
from
loat But
Not ship cas throughout the run. there is a crippled U-boat out there somewhere. A corvette did that—one of the toughest little warships in the world.
I am the first Naval Corres- pondent to sail in these new anti-submarine ships, testing their endurance and fighting efficiency in Northern bliz- zards, howling gales, and head-on to the Atlantie rollers.
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Rushed To Sea
These long-funnelled, whale- catcher type of warships, smaller than destroyers, were the answer to Britain's prayer when the Atlantic outlook was blackest, when France had caved in and we had to fight alone.
There was no time to build destroyers to beat the new in- tensive U-boat Blitz.
So crisis decisions were taken.
Many slipways must be used to rush out corvettes. Organ- isation between bullders and aub-contractors must be such that mass production methods could be used. Corvettes must be rushed out to sea on chain-belt principles.
And to-day you find corvette groups operating alongside the destroyers and sloops with the convoys.
Their advantages are these: (1.) They can fight U-boats. in the foulest weather.
(2.) They can be built rea- sonably quickly I look for ward to the time when, from a single slipway, one corvette
can be put to sea every month. Shipyards in the Dominions as well as at home are building them:
(3.) A corvette costs only a fraction of the cost of a des-. troyer. Numbers count in screening a convoy from U- boats, so the cost of escort craft comes down;
same
(4.) The range of these tiny warships is a secret, but they are fitted with the efficient anti-submarine gear ns the crack destroyers. And submarine protection has been recently further improved;
(5.) While not 80 fast as destroyers, they aro fast enough to pursue the U-boats. and that's all the speed they need for the job for which they are being built,
(6.) They need only 50 men a third of a ship's company of a destroyer.
(7) A corvette is in herself only a tiny target, whether she is being attacked from the air or on, or under, the sea.
"Lively" Ships
1 see no reason why we should not have two or three hundreds of these corvette anti - submarine warships sooner than most people might think. That number would be
A first class insurance against U-boats.
They are lively in seaway. The men who shil in them
suffer discomfort in even the slightest swell.
And when they are battling through the winter gales, their, broad beams roll with the sickening movement of a fat goldfish flicking its tail to jerk over oh Its side when somebody bangs its bowl.
I have sailed more than 25,000 miles covering the war at sea, mainly in destroyers, but I've never known anything like the roll you get in these corvettes.
"Hand-Picked"
The corvette men have been hand-picked for their endurance. And, when they prove they can talte it. they say they wouldn't change. They are proud of their task.
They had to be on this trip, what with goles and blizzards, squalis and storms, and three days living on hard tack,
They certainly earn their hard- lying money."..Outside the sub- marines there isn't a tougher job
aluab
Commanding officer of the cor- vette in which I sailed is an RN, commander who likes being a small ship man while his son is in the biggest warship of all the Hood.
The first lieutenant was a luxury liner officer in peacetime. He was R.N.R, and found himself in the dcomed armed merchant cruiser Patroclus. He clung to a tiny raft for seven and a half hours before a destroyer picked him up.
The navigator has been seven Limes round the world in tramp The ships. He is only 27 now. sub-lieutenant (R.N.V.R:) is a 21- year-old baronet,
Down on the mess deck they yarn about their adventures carlier in "the war. Most of them have been "over the side." Most of them have had their baptism of fire at
sca.
· I'd back these corvette men in a
fight against any U-boat.
The term "corvette” now being used to de
applied to a vessel of burden ... It was a flush deck vessel, barque rigged, with one tier of guns either on the upper or main deck.
1781 signets the new Navy convey boat was originally
The corvette of 1781 was, in addition to its specified dutiva, made to do the odd jobs. It had, for instance, to do convoy work, to look for smugglers and chase privateers..
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The only relationship the patrol corvette of
1941 1941 bears to the corvette of 1781 is that it; too,
has to do the odd joba. Its design is based on that of whale catchers in the Antarctic-it will do the same work in the wintry North Atlantic as the destroyers of tho, con--
·vdy" escorts. The corvette carries a supply of depth charges, and its complement generally consists of three officers and about sixty ratings. It has already proved successful, against the U-boats.
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Eugenics League
More Money Needed
Continued progress was made by the Hongkong Eugenics League dur- ing the past year, according to the fifth annual report, which will be presented at the yearly meeting to be held of the Gloucester Hotel on
Thursday at 0.15 p.m.
The report, signed by Mrs Selwyn-- Clarke, Hon. Secretary, states in part:
The number of patients has in- creased in all the Clinics by nearly 100 per cent, and the improvement in the numbers of those returning for re-examination has been maintained.
Home Polloy Followed
The League in co-operation with the Medical Department is pursuing the same policy advocated by the
Ministry of Health in Great Britain. Health Centres have been established where mothers can attend ante-natal clinics after the birth of the
baby, they return to the Centre for advice on Infant welfare and Gynaecological Clinics for post-natal care have been arranged which include advice on family planning, that is, how to space children for the sake of the health and the well-being of the family. An Increase in this service is urgently needed.
The Lengue has been successful in obtaining regular supplies of appll- ances from New York; but unless there is increased financial support during the next year, the League will be forced to discontinue this help to. poor patients.
The League has been able to res pond to requests for appliances from Shanghol, Kwelyang, Hainan and other centres. Assistance has also been given to mothers proceeding to the interior.
Social Welfare Worker
The Executive Committee has re- tained the services of a social welfare: worker, who nasists in the four Clinics and pays home visits to the mothers who attend the Clinics. The Committee considers that this follow- up work is of the greatest importance and therefore Is most anxious to engage a second welfare worker since: it is impossible for one worker to follow up the cases of all four Clinics. The educational work of the League is limited through the lack of co- educated Chinese operation of women, who, with their knowledge of the language, customs and problems of patients could talk with them on the advantages of family planning far more effectively than European women. The League
wishes to form a
Committee of Chi- nese voluntary, helpers to take over the publicity and educational work of the League.
Referring to parents who are un- able to give their children sumciently good feeding from birth and unable to their full part in the com-
play munity,
ily, the report states that this is self-evident in Hongkong where starvation diseases
Buch ns Berl-beri, Pellagra and Tuberculosis are on the Increase and
and where education is only avaliable to a a very small proportion of the population.
The Committee therefore hope that in the coming year they may have mora active co-operation from Chi- nese women so that the services of the League may be developed where they are most needed.
Miss Constance Lam, the Hon. Treasurer, submits a report on the League's objectives: to prevent and cure. Its function is to help families, particularly of the submerged class, to plan and to space the size of their family around their earning capacity, so that each child can have a decent chance of survival and healthy growth," she states:
Gift For Schools
The Director of Medical Services acknowledges gratefully the gift of $500 from the General Chinese Charities Fund Committee through the kindness of the Hon. Mr I. A. C. North, for the schools established for the children transferred from the Po Loung Kuk to the Government camps.
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