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THE SERVICES

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1938

THE SERVICES The Real "Silent Service" LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

ROYAL NAVY

DIRECTOR OF RECRUITING

THE ARMY

Royal Navy's Surveyors

In the Mall, level with the north door of the Admiralty, stands a statue of a naval officer in eighteenth-century uniform. From an Inscription on the base one learns that it represents Captain James Cook, the finest navigator and surveyor that ever lived.

A.D.C. TO THE KING Colonel J. M. Tuke, OBE, RM., The War Office announces tha wih relinquish the post of Director his Majesty has approved of the of Naval Recruiting, which he has appointment of Colonel tempor

Brigadier) G. G. Rawson held for four years. His tenure has ary

More than any other mun Cook is the inspiration of "the been made notable by the much OBE, M.C. late Royal Corps of least-known and most spent branch of the Royal Navy, the hydro- bigger entries of men and boys Signals, as Alde-de-Comp to the graphical surveying service. Much of its work is performed in re- because of the expansion of the King, with effect from August 1. inmote places, and so far as honours and promotion are concerned its succession to Colonel honorary rewards are almost non-existent. Brigadier R. H. Willán, D.S.O,

Fleet.

total for

ALC.. late Royal Corps of Signals, who has retired.

In no other department of navall kind! She is purposely renwin-

EIGHT VESSELS

At

The number of men enlisted dur Ing the past financial year con

activity does the consciousness of ing motröhless for some hours in the work well done count for so much order to test and record stituted a record for peace time; and the number of boys provided CUMSHSSIONS FROM THE RANKS as an incentive to further effort, strength of the tidal stream...» for for in the current year's Estimates,

beneft of navigators. Most of the young soldiers from In this respect the spirit which the 11,359. I more than double the the ranks who passed out from took Cook Into unknown regions to other times she may be perceived corresponding

1934 Sandhurst this month are going to fill up wide gaps in knowledge of towing a smull noat which per- (5,577).

the Unattached List for the Indian the Antarctic and Pacific is still forms curious antics as the ship Army. Others are joining The very much alive today."

changes course or speed. CADETS' TRAINING CRUISE H.M.S. Vindictive, training shin Queen's Own Royal West Kent

This is actually the visible por- for naval cadets, is due to leave Regiment, 12th Royal Lancers, The Normally the Royal Navy main- tion of a form of sweeping gear. Chatham on September 18 for her King's Regiment. The Prince of tauris in commission eight survey-used not for locating mines, but to autumn cruise, which will be as Wales's Volunteers, and the Rosaling vessels, all but two in foreign determine the position and exaet

Tank Corps.

waters. usual, to the Mediterranean.

In addition, the Royal depth of obstructions to naviga-

Royal When those now at Sandhurst Australian and

Indian

tion, the presence of which is sus- have passed out the commission- Navles cwn, one apiece.. In the pected from information receiv.. ing of selected young soldiers' will course of a recent cruise in H.M.Sed." During last year 156 such be made direct from the ranks. Jason, a new surveying ship, the dangers were discovered by H. M. Th's change in procedure maywriter was deeply impressed with ships, while sixty-two others were increase the number of boys enter the extent and variety of her removed or their ing Sandhurst from schools.

duties, for which, like most of her proved. PROMOTION "AND RETIREMENT kind, she has been adapted."

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS

The following appointments ate made by the Admiralty:

Cdr.-A. T. G. G. Peachey, to Cochrane Sept. 15).

L-Cdr.-R. W. F. Northcott. to

Winds in command (Sept. 24)

Instr. Lt Car.-C. T. Suthons, to President. tor duty inside Admiral- ty. Naval Met. Branch (Sept. 6).

Lt.-H. E. R. Torin (F/O., R.A.F, to "Victory. for Gosport (Pool) Aug. 2015. R. Banes.to Acasta.

In command; R. T. White. to Antelope. In command '(Sept. 241.

Surgn. Lts.-L.A. Anderson. M.B. J. H. Armstrong, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P J Jordan, M.B., O. J. Kearney, M.B. J. D. B. Perkins, and G. L. St. A.

Colonel T. C. R. Archer, who has been promoted from the R.A.M.C.. is 51 and is serving at Salisbury as DMS: for the Southern Com-

mand

Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Tillyard, O.B.E, who has retired, is the lasti officer to have been Commandant of the Royal Army Veterinary

School and of the School of Far-

McClosky. MR.C.P. LR.C.F. tory, which have been closed because of the progressive me. chanization of the Army.

Victory for R.N.B. (Sept 16); J. G Vincent-Smith, "M.R.. to Fleetwood

Sept 19).

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MIC. (A-R. G. Drake, to Pem- broke for R.N.B. (Aug. 18).

Mids. (E).-C. J. Bermingham. M. "Richards. E. H. Otten, L. G. Turner, M. W.: Ratclif. G..J. Shaw,

R. W. Hart, M. Martin, B. McHugh.

ROYAL AIR FORCE

DIRECTORATE OF STAFF

STUDIES

Group Captain F. H. M. Maynard,

IN

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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PUBLIC AUCTION

SATURDAY, the 10th SEPTEMBER, 1938.

Commencing at 11.00a.m.

At their Sales Room, No

Connaught Road, Central, Ground Floor,

1 'Bane Crusher

2 Cases Morgarne

? Cases Iron Padiccks

5 Packages Chinese Medicine

1 Crate Paper

100 Piculs Old Rubber Tyres existence dis-2,000 Galvanized Zinc Tubs

ARDUOUS TOURS Coast-lining, or the accurate de- In fact, she is identical in a

lineation of high and low-water design and construction with

marks around the coasts of an contemporary minesweepers.

¦area under survey is another con- With

displaceinent of 839 tons and a speed of 17 knots,

cern of the hydrographic branch. but without their arutament.

It mvolves pacing every inch of the shore and dixing waterline In the past surveying vessels positions on the chart by means of have alten mounted 1 three sextant, theodolite, etc.. with notes pounder. but being officially rated as to whether the shore is com- "non-saluting ships." this is posed of rock, sand, gravel, or Yet the little 3-lb. gun is occasion-any off-lying rocks. nowadays regarded as superfluous mud, its colour, and the height of aily used, as for example on June

As a rule a small boat accom-

3.5

22. 1911. when M. surveying ship|panies the surveyor on this 'ardu-, Senlark, at Tulag! in the Solomon ous tour. Islands. Ared her weapon twenty- one times as Royal salute in honour of the Coronation of King George V.

Though mechanical sounding machines are still provided for entire rellance is

G. Tomlinson, K. M. Eustace, GA.F.C.. has been appointed to the emergencles.

S. Mellor, J. Molr. D. M. Andrew. Air Ministry as Deputy Director of placed on "echo" sounding gear P Vaughan, M. A. J. M. Hayward, Staff Duties vice Group Captain A. except when working iri boats. "It H B. M Butterworth, and A. C. T │W. F. Glenny, M.C.; D.F.C. Morris, to Drake. for course of in- struction in engineering at R.N.E. College, Keyham (Sept. 1),

George Simpson, K.C.B., Payr. Cadet, P. Mollet!. to C.B.E, D.Sc., FRS,, retires after Newcastle, appt. to Rocher carisme 18 years service as Director celled (Sept. 1):

[cf the Meteorological Office.

SIR GEORGE SIMPSON

Sir

Such work can be a real de-

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duced them to band together in an officially approved society for the purpose of keeping abreast of the latest developments in sea and land surveying, "

All the world over. British Ad- On the Jason's cruise., already miralty charts, salling directions, elves a complete and exact record mentioned, there were on board and light lists are in constant re- of the contours of the bed, and party from the Field Survey Asso-quest by 'seafarers. These aids to has added greatly to the rapidity clation, formed in 1919.

navigation are the product of the and, efficiency of sounding work. Its members are qualified sur-surveying service, whose work is Sometimes a surveying ship may veyors, physicists, and others with collated and published at the Ad- be seen at anchor in the open sea, scientific training of a kindred na-miralty by the Hydrographer's De-

enthusiasm has in- apparently idle. Nothing of the ture, whose

ament.

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