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II-THE SOLDIER AS SAILOR.

"A DOG'S LIFE."

BY THE HON, SIR JOHN FOETKICUK

in the Times."?]

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Meanwhile, it may be mentioned CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

that British military officers have shown themselves on occasion as fond of a bit of sailoring as naval officers of a bit of soldiering. They have rarely had the chance, yet they found it in Sicily between 1806 and 1810, when they organised a fotilla of gunboats and small craft for the defence of the island against the French in Calabria. The Royal Navy was not allowed to have anything to do with it. It W the soldiers' OWN Botilla manned, trained, and commanded by soldiers, and it engaged King Snce with brilliant success.. I think Joachim Murat's flotilla more than

that I am right in saying that British military officers took com mand of ships in the Caspian in the confused operations at the close of the Great War.

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211 OCTOBER, 1928. ProKANTWERP LONDON GIBRAL

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DĺŇODĚ AT THEIR ME in the Hong Kong Pamons Troopshipa

Bad Kowloon Wharf and tłodown It was rather an evil day, long Company's todowns at Kowloon, where since past, when the Royal Navy Consigament will be sorted out undertook to provide its own transak by Mark and Delivery

obtamed as the Goods are landed. their various missions across the porta for conveying soldiers on

"We are accustomed to regard the British soldier as the man who has taken a principal share in build- ing up the British Empire ashore; but do many of us appreciate how many have been his adventures. afoat? For a century and a half his first duty was to max the Fleet; and very early in his Career, through the performance of this service, he helped to build up the British mercantile marine. Three of Cromwell's Dunbar regiments were aboard the ships which, after re

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TJILEBOET '... Java,Haxasına' 18th Nov. 19th Nov.

the Admiralty furnished very had In the early days of steams vessels, and kept them in very bad One of these, ̈H.MS, repair. actions in 1952-53, 3legnera, was sent off with a bating date of arrival, will be unpisci to brought the Dutch to their knees talion of the Ride Brigade from and began the transfer of the the Downs to the Cape on January world's carrying trade from Hol- 2nd, 1852. She met a gale, caught land to England. The Guards Are twice, and put into Plymouth were actually part of the crews

on the 5th utterly disabled. She which won the Battle of Lowestoft was hurried to sea again on the in 1868. To the very end of the 7th, and, after catching fire again 19th century saldiers continued to take a very large share in opera- Simonstown after a passage of two more than once, at last reached tions afloat, and were frequently months. This wretched old tub was called upon, after the characteris ultimately run ashore on St. Paul's tic fashion of British Ministers, to

Ieland more than 20 years later to be in two places at once. Thu, prevent her from sinking, and Admiral Byng's Fleet, which was happily she remains there. Bent to the relief of Minorca in

Another transport. 1736, was supposed to draw part of Transit embarked a regiment for from the garrison of india at Portsmouth in April, 1887. Gibraltar. General Fowke, who she met & gale, and was so badly. commanded at Gibraltar, declined rigged that she was obliged to put to spare a soldier, since the fortress into Corunna for safety. Later she would be brought into 'great danger ran into a storm east of the Cape, of capture. So Byng failed from when her iron plates worked so want of men and Minorca fell. lopee that the water fowed in free- Thereupon the Government shot Byng, because they had sent him toy and she nearly went down in sea with too weak crews, and dis mid-ocean. Finally, she ran upon a rock in the Straits of Sunda and graced Fowke because he had not became a total wreck. All hands risked the loss of Gibraltar as well were saved, and there was good The once famous Indian troepships the Serapis, Jumna, Crocodile, and Euphrates (every one knew their names at one time) were of a very different class, and rather beautiful ships to look upon, but in due time they became obsolete and were not replaced. The Army is much happier in hired transporte down in time; but even General Every one," wrote Lord Wolseley, Consignees of Cargo by her are notified TJILEBOET

writing his reminiscences of such

after transport

experience H.M.S. Transit, is much kinder

as of Minores.

Soldiers did not enjoy life on board a man-of-war. The Royal Navy was never kind to them. The officers were not really allowed to command their own men; and the men themselves, helpless at first in unfamiliar surroundings, sea-sick and miserable, were treated with abuse and contempt. They settled

Wolfe, an excellent disciplinarian, in his regimental orders hinted that soldiers must be prepared to pet' up with a great deal on board his Majesty's Fleet. The number of naval engagements in which

soldiers took an honourable share

is too great to be recounted, bat two only are commemorated on their colours the Battle of St. Vincent and Lord Howe's victory of the First of June, 1794. It is note

riddance of another bad vessel.

to us.

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transport of the Royal Navy, Nevertheless, it was through a

H.M.S. Birkenhead, that the British soldier gained lasting fame

at sen,

He has shown himself"na great in other disasters on the ocean, notably in the case of the Sarah Sands and of the Warren the classical example of perfect dia Hastings. But the Birkenhead is cipline and unselfishness; and it is the 8th (2nd Welch), who took through the example of the raw recruits on the Birkenhead that not himself.

worthy that, when the Captain hoarded the San Nicolas in the former action the first man on the Spaniard's decks was a soldier of

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From AMSTERDAM, HOTTERDAM, HAMBURG, BREMEN & GENOA.

THE Steamship THE

GEMMA" Voy. 10. having arrived from the above Perts, that all Goods are being landed at their risk, into the hazardous and/or extra. haardons frodowns of the China Pro- vident Loan.

the wharves, De-

very may be obtained. whence and/or from Co., Ltd., Gooda zot cleared by the 27th October, 1918, will be subject to Bent.

All broken, chafed and damaged Pack- ages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 25th October, 1928, at 10 am, by Mesure. Goddard and Douglas, Hong Kong.

presented in writing within Ten days Claime against the Steamer must be after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognized.

Ne Firs Insurance will be affected by will be countersigned by Bills of Lading

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OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA,

KOBE AND MOJI,

M.V. “ESQUILINO "

M.V.ROMOLO " 8.8.VEREZIA“

From Hong Kong.

Bails on/or about 8th Nov. Sails on/or about 8th Dec. Bails on/or about 8rd Jan.

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.

M.V. "VIMINALE "

M.Y. "ESQUILINO"

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Hardships At Sea,

of all classes and callings face danger "on board ship without Altogether, soldiers greatly pre-panic. Perhaps, even that gallant ferred hired transports to the stewardess of the Cunard Line who, King's ships, though on them, too, after having three ships torpedoed they must have led a dog's life. under her during the War, con- The ships were small; the men were tinued with unshaken nerve to pur overcrowded the ventilation' was sue her calling, may owe something imperfect; the allowance of water to the tradition of the Birkenhea was necessarily very small; and in

REGISTER,

a gale of wind the conditions, muit HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL have been appalling. Of course, there were also the ordinary perils of the sea; and no computation can he made af the number of soldiers who, first and last, have been lost, through them. An expedition which sailed for the West Indies

Hong Kong Observatory, Oct. 32zd

Direction B'ores Weather `....... Sain

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Day at 2 pun. 6 m.

#t

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE,

From October 23rd to 25th, 1928.

HION WATEL.

Days of

Date

Month

Hong

Koug

Time.

Standard

leight,

ATEX.

Hong

Kong

Standard

Tint.

Height,

b. 2. ft. in h. m. ft. ir, Taes. 23 m 241 16 7m1 46

151

# .m

30.07 30.48

30.02,

68

71

39

4

W

1

2

Thar 35

B

H

B

Fri.

26

3 No infer. [bigh nor low west. Wed. Em 419 57 0 30 2 2 7 825 3 11674 8

in November, 1795, ran into a gale Barometer... immediately after starting, and for Temperature 78 a week afterwards the shore be- Humidity... tween Portland and Abbotsbury Wind- was lined with the corpses of dead soldiers. But, apart from this, the ways of the merchant skipper were often fraught with danger. At the end of the 18th century a hired transport sailed with troops from the West Indies for England, and was well out in blue water when the

B Blue sky CaCloudy; D So. skipper died of delirium tremens. Drizzle;

0.00 0,60 0.00 Highest open-air Temperam, 1st: 78 Lowest open-air Temperatura, 2214:18 Sat

40 6·2

745 7

A2

487 0 0 63

7 57 mi 6 1

277 477 11-44 33

196 71 2 17 a 2

28

8 40

8 497 1

F=Fog; L-Lightning Man. 29 No one else of her officers or crew M-Mist; O-Overcast: P-Passing could navigate. her, as a major of showers; Q-Squalls; E-Rain; T- infantry took command and engag-Thunder.

ed himself to bring her into the Downs. Moreover, he fetually did carry the ship across the Atlantic, and duly came to anchor in an estuary

which, upon inquiry, to be that, not of the

Thames, but of the Mersey. The good man's crror in calculation, in fact, amounted to the whole length of Ireland; but still it might have been worse.

Bir

0m 2 31 b 502 5 32 6 8 m 8 1719 9 177 72 228

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