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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950.

NAVY WOULDN'T

TRAIN ON TRICYCLES

By Peter Lovegrove

THE use of tricycles instead of ships for the instruction of naval officers in manoeuvring flects, to avoid the "costly. expenditure of coal," WOB recommended to the Ad- miralty seventy years ago.

This original idea came from Lieutenant Crawford Caffin, Senior Lieutenant

HMS

of

Zenious. He proposed the construction of dummy ships, made of a light material and mounted on "velocipedes tricycles, which would operated on a piece ground by the part." Rubber were

bc fo withstand the collisions."

or be

of level Officers taking or cork rams provided shock

to

tfngrdles of the high scan, which contrast oddly with their citing in his forbidding build- ing in the autumn groyness of Chancery Lane.

There is a letter from Sir Francis Drake written on July 31, 1888 during the pursuit of the Spanish Armada stating: "There was never any thing pleased me better than seeing the enemy flying with a sotherly wynd to the northwardes."

The master of the Vanguard describes how "our Red - gave wellcom them such A Hurty

put them out of which

Tyme order and in A Small

to Run" at the they began battle of La Hague (1892).

There is Rodney's account of the battle of the Saints (1782),

bren which has

called บ milestone in Naval History, be- cause it was won by a departure from the then rigid rule that an Admiral should not alter the formation in which he began an action. Rodney, taking advantage of a change of wind, altered the

The scheme caught the fancy of Vice-Admiral A. Farquhar, then flying his flag in the Zeulous, but not, that of the traditionally conservative Lord's of the Admiralty, for in a minute on the document one of these, Rear-Admiral Seymour, com- flagship's course and broke into ments: "Ingenious, perhaps, the enemy's line. but slightly conducive to ridicule if practised in public."

It remained in the Naval re- cords, however, and is now on public view for the first time with similarly fascinating glimpses into the Royal Navy's past at the Public Record Office

in London.

A Milestone

There is also a warrant signed by King James II and counter- by Samuel Pepys signed asking the Navy Board to report an invention for transforming

water

in in'o Fresh salt 1680 submitted by Robert Boyle,

AGENT

JEWTE NEWSIPERS PEST MATER

ORDER

COFF NOW

"Throwing stones all night at my window to remind me to save you your copy will get you nowhero."

London. Express Service

Sitting on the Fence....by

150

works

in a Christmas Jray- factory."-News

pudding inent.

HRISTMAS comes but

once a year

To everyone but me,

They eat their pud; it does

them good With Christmas cake for

tea.

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Nor do I But then we're very

Not content with much alike. You also have big Home Guard when

cara, too.

fo

retired colonels and heads police and Home Office.

What chance is there fuddled worm to pass exams. when

enough

fuddled worm bada'

even to be

come in Home

clear-handed. Guard, while

gas manager, who never had more than two sherries before dinner, properly served at proper time

white in: by maid in

сар commander wife was apron, was zone

while driving about in powerful cars

with

calling everybody

years

Grog introduced thement was an iron Body By Boxing night they've seen eyes and a long face. And long left alone in air raids

Another document deals with the Introduction of grog by Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon in the West Indies in 1740. The Admiral, much concerned at his themselves sailors "stupefying with 'Spirituous Liquors'" in the many punch houses of Port Royal harbour, Jamaica, issued general order laying down that

a

instrument

closed with Head of ye same Matter" within which was " Metallino Composition," and the inventors claimed that the water thus made was "better than any common Water and very good against ye scurvey,"

Fleet

Sir Walter Raleigh's Orders for the ill-fated expedi- tlon to the Orinoco (1017), which fed to his execution....accounts of Perts- for the construction "Whereas the Pernicious mouth dry dock in 1405, the first Custom of the Seamen Drinking of its kind in England. Its cost: their Allowance of Rum in £193. 09. 6d. (including the Drams, and, often at once, is gate)....Vlez-Admiral Benbow's attended by many fatal Effects evidence at the court-martial, of to their Morals as well as their disloyal officers who refused to Health...." thé dally allowance obey his orders in a sea-fight of half a pint a man is to be

on the Spanish Main in 1702, mixed with Π quart which has been immortalised in

"to, be, mixed in ong

a ballad-Collingwood's general Scuttled But kept for that pur- order after Trafalgar (1805): pose and to be done upon Deck, "I have thought proper, that and in the Lieutenant of the Watch," who say should

water....

of

of the Presence

bo appointed of

of turkey, pud and pie... In savage mood I stir the pud

From August to July.

outside, Wild winds of March may howl

S: Arril rain may fall, The birds of May with love

song gay

Will charm the cars of all...' of all but me ki factory steam As cauldrons boll and bubble, in savage mood I stir the pud, And wish not joy but trouble.

When

blows Brings scent and emell

wood and dell

"เ

personal,

You needn't .be Rover.

Oh,

But we're much the same type, aren't we? We both suffer from melan-

I'm sorry,

cholla. if that's what you mean. But then you don't have all my worries.

I have my worries, too.. Since I passed the middle Aflies I and my memory's ko- ing. I'm always losing things like spectacles and bank books,

So am I,

worn

went

swashbuckling round district armed to teeth "sir." frightening neighbours and pouring money

over

counters

+

and

of low taverns with witty wor

found friends, won has now another excuse to show off th

medal rib- No doubt, of course, uniform with silly

bar- thinks of himself as hero, des bons in front of blonde

to tined

Save

from country maids.

Wife wouldn't mind so much destruction. No doubt warde

WOZI

look such a fool 37 uniform Infuriate neighbours, orderin if puny, undersized worm didn't, worm, drunk with power, will three sizes too big or it worm. them about if trouble comes. had brains to become chief

But, as wife sees it, fuddled Worm wurden like gas manager,

his health ruined b self-indulgence and Irregula meals, bolted like pig at trough His pockets emptied by cadgin woim friends, will soon be

of Cit come laughing stock Patriotic gas manager, who Defence and finally be drum

at first Joined Civil Defence

med out for

Incompetence a appeal, not only has time to

hold he manage gas but has passed all that wife can never

Avenu head up in. Worm's wardens exams, mrd is now

again: and try. In the night I wake chief Instructor for whole coun thinking and wondering: -

-Bondon Express Service;

cowslips bloom meadow sweet Ench

summer breeze

- In.

that

from

To many a lucky nose;

that But not to mine,

I have

sniffs

other things. weck I buried a bone.

naught else

can't remember where.

Don't be silly, Rover. You don't have such things.

Last But I I try

But rum and boiling suct

Creating as I do it.

is to see that the men are not gerioral humiliation before God. In savage mood I stir the pud,

and thanksgiving for this his defrauded of their allowance of

merciful Goodness' rum; it is to be served in two

description of a local riot in the servings, one in the

morning Isle of Man against the brutal of the Pressgang and the other in the after activities noon.. The

men "thetore (1603) Pacific explorations good Husbands may from the

in the 18th Century by Captain: Savings of their Salt Provisions Cook and Captain William Bilgh and Bread purchase Sugar and

Nore Limes to make the water more of Bounty fame....a ballad of

at the the mutineers Palatable to them."

(1797)....a letter from Charles Darwin accepting to sail as a the Beagle its name naturalist nickname (1831)....a supplementary es him for timate of the cost of the Warrior

from the Admiral's

This mixture gol

of "Old Grog" given

on

his habit of wearing a grogam (1880), the first large ship of

boat-cont.

Captain Kidd

The exhibition

Navy the British

to be, butit entirely of iron....figureheads, fighting instructions and signal- Ung systems.

Round Robin

reveals that- : the notorious Captain William Kidd was given in 1690 a special Great under the commission Seal to seize and bring in pirates one

coast and amples on the American elsewhere.

The most humble exhibit s known of the earliest

the of the

use in Navy of a Round Robbi-the device, inter very popular with ho offered scamep, of putting names to a The inducements

the order of men in New York, to join his petition in the form of a circle crew on the galley Adventure 80 as to conceal included a share of all treasure igning. This was addressed in taken,, Any man losing a 'log 1627 to a ship's captain by 16 of services was to. his crew who refused to weigh or arm in his have 000 places-of-eight, while anchor until provisionet, and GRANT thieves received short shrift; opens:

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So if you cat, this Christmas

time,

A pud I might have made,

to dream

*

ty, mixing with tip tops: and!

Oh, poor Rover. Anything Went On Mystery Cruis

while-you, by stream, reclined else?

Yes, But we can't go into!

that.

Why not7 We're friends,

When Mr J. T. Haynes,

They set off without kno

No blessings shall attend your aren't we? What Is It? Guri general manager of Wessex where they were going

In droway woodland shade,

board,

No luck stall come your

way

trouble?

I

stirred your pud in cavage

mood,

And cursed your Christmas

Day.

The lost bone

is

"Dog companionship major factor in outwitting ohi ogo," writes Dr Clarence W. Let, but, the nervous type of dog is not good medicine for humana: nor is. high-strung (the "mad-eyed, phlegmatik, „type and depressed "good" friend Dersonalities***

"HEER up, Rover.

Oh, I'm all right, (***** You needn't look so misumble.

.

Yes, That's a foolish worry, Hover. You know you can have your girl friends here for tea and

Conc.

won't

Division,

Southern Gas captain got, his orders to, Board, went from Puole, up cargo from port to part Dorset, to Newcastle, in one The four traveliers Hved ¦ of the gas undertaking's crow's rations and were cor colliers, it gave him an idea. pletely cut off from the wor

biscuits any time you like.

But ther I know:

Why not a hellday "mystery" There were no newspapers a cruise? With his wife and Mr no wireless broadcasts to he Won't came, Rovert It's my long, miserable face. N. F. Gadsdon, general manager because of Jamming by mars of No. 4 sub-area, Southern They laugh at it.

*

There, there, don't cry, Rover, Girls have always laughed at my face, too,

Have they?

That's why I'm a bachelor, Rover

•INE TO SOTTU

I can't help, ti.. It's my long in common.

and

So we have one more thing

I buy

the spot Inry. It we'll mark everything. A

with a inte stick, shall we? face, and long cars; and big eyes, another bone, and when you Oh, thank you You're 10 And your wrinkled, worried

good to meg Yes, I know. But that's my Rover. But they unpleasing peame as breed, I was born with wrinkles,

to yor wordes they were turned ashore in an "Good Captain uninhabited place.

woo all give care

Kidd, however, fell to the lure of plracy himself, and with one of his crew turning King's evidence, he was brought to trial at the Old. Balley a few years Inter and hanged at Execution

Dock.

wee doo hoare,..."

And ends, not

not without prudenco:

..

τοπια

"Unto which enying wee will all

applye Before welo yela wee one and

brow.

You're not the kind of dog the doctor

It's nothing between friends,

Rover Diary of a worm

•

I know I'm not.You should g

excited worm have had a lively, boisterous FLUSHED little dog, always barking and arrives home late to tell wife he has joined Civil · Den! fence." eating your bedroom suppers."

Yellowing parchments, faded

I don't like boisterous-littlererequi charts and laboriously. penned diagrams recall the great battics, God-bless the kings and sends who cat bedroom slippers,

Rover pioneering expeditions

FERD'NAND

and

nil will dyo

himo,longe. torayne."

Current At

Attraction

Oh, so this is worm's, latest trick to stay out late, is it?

Electricity Board and Mrs The trip covered 4,500 mil Gadsden, he has just returned Among the porta vislied w from a three-week holiday on Bilbao, Cadiz, Valencia, Bar board a British cargo ship, the lona, Tarragona, Gibraltar Pacheco..

Lagos.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbrait

LTD.

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