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SPECIALIST

19, 1938.

RESPONSIBILITIES

A Problem Of. Varying Degree

BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL

The modern naval specialist may be described as a man of saper-knowledge in connection with spects of his calling, a certain practical acquaintance with which comes within the general training of every naval officer. It is a rather controver- sial point as to whether the system of specialization is not car-. ried too far these days, with the result that there is too much tendency to segregate what should be general tate the special. The Admiralty had this matter under review some three years aro And decided upon certain modifications, particularly in the case of the officers (N.). My present purpose, however, is not to "deal with this controversial point, but to consider certain rather important features inherent in the system as it exists. Chief among these is the element of responsibility. Theoretically, every specialist ap- pointed to a warship is in charge of that branch of her composite organization in which he has spe- cialized. The extent to which he may be called upon to exercise his super-knowledge varies, of course, with the subject. The engineer officer is perpetually employing his higher technical qualifications in dealing with matters which confront him in the normal course of his duties. The navigating" of cer on the high seas has little call

to do anything more than any executive watch-keeper should be quite capable of doing in the nor- mal round of his dutles.

Let me hasten to add that I do not make this statement with any intention of trying to minimize the Importance of the navigator's functions. There

are plenty of occasions when his specialized knowledge is of very definite value. But there are plenty of naval craft getting about the seas, without the services of officers who have specialized in navigation; there fa none getting about the sea without officers who have specialized in engineering.

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TWO OLDEST SUBJECTS Navigation and gunnery are the two oldest subjects of specialist study in the Navy. The reason why is suficiently self-evident. The mysterious art of groping about an unknown world was something qutside the normal. Een of the ancient mariners. According to Tennyson, Sir Richard Grenville cried to his "master gunner" to sink the Revenge or "split her in twain" (which seems rather a tautological alternative). I have referred to the engineer officer as a specialist, but actually he is in a sphere of his own. The other branches of specialism are of quite modern growth, as, indeed. the classification of them suggests. -Probably no single "expert" in the whole of a great warship's comple- ment la vested with such a direct degree of responsibility for her safety as the navigator.

This was

rather "particularly brought.out during the course of two courts-martial recently held in connection with the temporary grounding of the new cruiser Glasgow while carrying out evolu- tionary tests in Weymouth Bay. In all cases in which the stranding of a warship forms the subject of a naval tribunal this question of the responsibility of the naviga- ting officer-presuming that she carries one is always thoroughly canvassed, and, no doubt. quite properly so. But in the "Inquiry following the Glasgow incident the circumstances seemed to give a rather unusual interest to the argument of presumptive versus positive responsibility.

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The Machinery of The Chung Shan Hat Factory at No. 262, Sai Yeung Chol Street, Ground Floor and Bos. 16 and 18,

It is quite evident that in leaving | Nallah Road, Ground Floors,

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the bridge under the direction of the captain the navigating specl- alist also left his responsibilities for "the safe navigation of the ship." He was asked whether on formed the captain that he was his return to the bridge he in- resuming his duties," and he an- swered that he did not. On the face of it, if the captain was still carrying out his "personal exercise" and still in control on the bridge. (where, of course, the watch- CHOSEN keeping officer was present), as apparently he was, it is a little CORPORATION could have interfered. difficult to see how the navigator

MEETING

The chairman, Mr. Portman.. made it clear to shareholders that the eventual policy of the Coz poration was to form a finance house which should serve financial link between London and the Far East..

The captain in his defence com- plained that he did not receive the support he felt he had a right to expect from his navigating omcer.siderable opposition the directors' After a long discussion and con-

or a very controversial field: It Chosen Corporation were adopted This allegation touches the fringe report and the accounts of the suggests an inferential admission at the meeting recently. that in the course of his "personal exercise" the captain was taking an undue degree of risk without perceiving it at the time, and that the navigating specialist ought to have seen this and Intervened. Otherwise in what form could he have given his captain "support"? But if this contention that, the navigating officer should have given the captain such "support" be a legitimate argument. It may be asked whether the navigator should have left the bridge at all in circumstances that evidently involved his "quitting his job." It was his business to know. perfectly well that the Glasgow was moving in "tricky" waters. Then, of course, comes in the tradition of dis- cipline," which in the Navy may be likened to Wordsworth's defini- tion of habit: "Heavy as frost

and deep almost as life."

In the meantime, Mr. Rubinstein' was to return to the Far East next month. It was expected that the Japanese would give every aseis- tance in the completion of the transaction concerning the Nurupt Mine in view of the great assia- tance which the Corporation would be able to give to Japanese in- terests in London.

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unt May 1.

CAPITAL MOVEMENT

RESTRICTIONS

If a captain tells an officer of lower rank to leave the bridge, that is tantamount to an order. and the natural instinct is to obey: In this connection Mr. Julji (. if he assumes control for the pur-Kasai, a member of the Japanese pose of carrying out a "personal Imperial Diet, who was present exercise". he is exercising his at the meeting, -aald that - he authority, which there can be no thought that the restrictions con- question of challenging. Of course. cerning the movement of capital common sense, which naval om- would be eased after the cessation ters certainly do not lack. is the of the present hostilities. real arbiter on such occasions. We When Mr. Portman may assume that the navigator of speaking. a number of shareholders Anished

the Glasgow was perfectly in his manifested their disapproval of mind when he left the bridge. the way "in which the company's As I have said, it was the affairs are conducted, and there captain's defence of expecting.was talk of the formation of a "support from the specialist committee of shareholders LA which raises the technical point assist the board, and of a Board of responsibility. Although it must of Trade enquiry. appear that, on being ordered to, quit the bridge, the navigator had responsibility taken out hands, yet the Court found that, of his

de facto, h's responsibility con- tinued and their verdict was a reprimand. In no other specialist walk is a corresponding case likely because-outside of the engine room-in no other walk is the safety of the ship directly involved, although her

efficiency as 1

aghting unit may be...

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FURNITURE

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speeches recommending confidence Drawing Room and Office Furniture,

Towards the end, however,

Teak Bed Room, Dining Room,

Martin Coles Harman and there Pictures, Books, Hadio Seta, Cur in the board were made by Mr. Brass and Glass Ware, Ornaments,

Portman put the adoption of the Dianer Sets, etc., etc. were only two dissenters when Mrtains, Gramophones and Records, report and accounts to the vote. Mr. Harmon then proposed the election of Mr. Miller to the board and the motion was carried with one dissenter..

The ultimate responsibility for the ship rests, of course, with the captain. In normal circumstances he is satisfied to leave what I will call the departmental phases of either security or efficiency in the hands of the respective specialists, Thus the worst shooting ship of knowing perfectly well that they

her category in the Fleet is not Solicitor at Highgate: Supposing are expert in their particular likely to incur a court-martial you said you were in this public- functions. More than likely. heupon her captain and gunnery house" and twenty policemen said has himself been a specialist in specialist to fix responsibility for you were not, whose word would one branch or another down to this state of affairs. Indeed, it is you take?

the time that he was promoted out of the selection zone. But in the mishap to the Glasgow the captain of that ship temporarily took upon himself the duties which would have been those of the navigating licut,-commander in the fulfilment of his responsible role.

Man: Mine.

rather a question as to what degree of responsibility the experts have for the efficiency of the ship for rather her crew) in the specific matters in which they are specia.it is possible to keep in full-pay Hats..

employment a large number of officers of whom it might not otherwise be very easy to dispose under normal peace time conde

SEGREGATING KNOWLEDGE Beyond this, however, it is also

a question as to whether specialiam tions. Science, of course, is con-

is not carried too far, and whether tinually giving the Service some-

as a result what ought to be a thing fresh to learn, but nearly

and

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VON RIBBENTROP'S SALARY

The salary of Herr von Ribben-

The cruiser was manoeuvring in shaal waters. According to the evi- dence given before the courts- martial the captain assumed con trol on the bridge for the purpose part of the general knowledge of always this "something" is progres- of carrying out a "personal test.” the naval officer is not segregated | sivc, In continuation of what trop, German Ambassador to Bri- This seems a perfectly natural | into: departmental knowledge, and already "exista and not entirely tain, along with that of other thing for him to have done. The rendered top-heavy by theoretical new, as was wireless when it was Ambassadors, has not been raised Glasgow was a new ship and the study to a degree deyond any introduced into the Navy, for by the new law regulating the question of her "manœuvreability" possibility of practical application.example.

incomes of State oficiais. would obviously be of great interest The Admiralty have long" had The Great War brought a regular allowances.

still receives £1,580, excluding to her commanding officer. He doubts upon this subject. The ten- plethora of inventions, some of sent the navigator of the bridge; dency to develop the academic them extremely valuable; many of Provincial Governors, the Lord for what reason or for how long courses considered necessary to them of little use; still more of Mayer of Berlin, and a number of was not disclosed in the published produce a specialist is, perhaps, them of no use at all.-"United high judges are paid £240 more evidence before the inquiry,

understandable, for by this means Services Review.

than Ambassadors.

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