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THE FLEET BESTIRS ITSELF.
EARLY MORNING CEREMONY.
There are some things which a man sees only once. He may after wards see them every day of his
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The great ship towers above you in the uncanny grey light not of un or moon. It is cold. The sen is as grey as the sky. Navigation lights are still burning high up on the maata. Ahend and astern lie the ships of the Battle Squadron, black shadows on grey water—their bridges, their Aghting tops, their guns jet black against the thin red streamers of the dawn...
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One of the results of the" work has been to make certain something not at vast distances, Formerly believed.
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a shadow far off on the port how.
"Destroyers! See them
A fleet is a strange thing. You | never actually see it in the same way that you see an army. Its area extends over the curve of the earth's surface. Its members are
always slipping away on mys terious errands. The destroyers, like grey cats, go out on their hunting by night, and early in the morning you can see them slinking || home again-grey cats that have been out all night.
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whole squadron crosses your bows accordingly vary from 循 few are to be left in the Godowns, where steaming busily on some unknown minutes up to an hour or so. Io they will be examined on any Tuesdays occasion part of you, yet appar all, approximately 200,000 of these and Fridays between the hours of ently independent of you; and the exposures will have been made | 10.45 1.m. and Noor within the Free air, you know, is stiff with mes shortly be assembled and printed. Storage P1 be admitted after the
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sages that could, if they would. bring you all together from the edges of the sky.
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The astronomers of to-morrow, No Clayma by comparing the charts now being Goods have left the Steamer's, Godawn, collected with future ones, will be and all Goods remaining undelivered able to establish how much a star after the 5th December, will be Mucking About.
har moved in relation to its neigh subject to Bent "What are we doing now!" you bour, and in what direction. Exact -All Claims against the Steamer müst ask, as perceptible throb rises in positions of stars to-day are being be presented to the Undersigned on or the ship.
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You laugh to think of 25,000 tons of death and destruction"muck- ing about."
In the Navy you spend your time either mucking about or being mucked about. D actually we are going to sea."
And this is how а battle squadron goes to ees with compli-
ments.
Nothing before has ever been at tempted in the work of astrology to compare with this huge-scale labour of photographing the sky. Progress in astronomy, although it ranks among the oldest of the prac tised sciences, has been necessarily slow. The starry fields are so vast, and man's means so limited for The flagship signals "Single line exploration in them. As each new shead," and her great propellers" ceiling" is being revealed by im- churn the water. As she moves, proved methods, space takes on the carly morning sun, flashing on even more illimitüble brass-work, turns her almost white ments, until the human imagina- The squadron was anchored as it tion reels from encompassing them. came in from sea, the flagship first Oxford and Greenwich, in the and the battleships in line with completion of their respective her, so that in leaving harbour the tasks, now join Cape of Good Hope squadron wheels about, and the and Perth as observatories that flagahia, wheeling first, passes have finished their allotted portion
of the sky.
down the line.
She sees that the crews of each ship stind in two ranks on both sides of the -fo'esle and in the waist. On the quarter-deck of each ship is the band of the Royal Marines.
The flagship moves along the As she tine, her band playing. comes level with the first ship there is a rili even whistling-the bo'sun's pipe-and the crew come to attention. The flagship acknow. ledges the compliment with the sound of a pipe. Her crew also stand to attention; and so she moves out to sea.
Exactly the same ceremony is performed as ship passes ship. The junior ship pipes her crew to at tention, the senior ship pipes in mply, compliment and exchange of compliment, and the grey monsters forge ahead in single line towards the white billows and the open sky,
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The flagship signals every change of her speed to the next in line; and the signal is passed on:-
A hundred and seventy-five re- volutions," says the navigating officer down a brass speaking tube; and the engine room complies instantly.
A midshipman translates this into knots and runs to the signal- ler on the bridge."who puts out n speed flag for the beneft of the ship behind.
In this way a battle squadron keeps its respectful distance, and inndaunen on shore, seeing them at exact mathematical distance
Onee at sea, the hundred activi- Ities of a battleship begin with vigour. The great noses of the 13.6 guns are seen to move blindly over many cables, length one from the the horizon as if in search of a other thanks God for the efficiency victim. The gun
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HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
From December 1st to 7th, 1927, Hua Wazka. Low WATER.
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