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· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

MAY 8, 1937.

SPARE MOMENT

MOMENT PAGE

"I don't know what she sees in her father."

H.M.S. Eagle arrived

in Hongkong this week, to relieve H.M.S. Hermes

On China Station.

Here is the history of

Twenty Warships Named Eagle

Royal

How the Fusiliers got

their Name

Australin.

Does any. ono. remember now Charles Godfrey's Inspiring song with the refrain:

"Oh, fighting with the Seventh

Royal Fusiliers, Farious liers,

Fualliers, gallant Fusi

Thro deadly Bussian shot and

Cossack spears

YOUNG man who auguration of the Commonwealth of joins the Army to-day In the Crimea the regiment dis-

We care'd our way to glory." nt the Alma, becomes not only a tingulshed itself

In the nineties. this song made the Inkerman and Sebastopol, winning regiment so popular that recruiting British soldier, in itself a ave V.Cs, a number equalled by had to be stopped. proud title, but a member of no other regiment except the Scots some famous regimenta living link with the country's history.

Soldiers come and go, but the regiment lives on: Take Lon. don's own regiment, the Royal Fusiliers.

Guards.

DU URING the great war tho

Royal Fusillers swelled to MEN of the 1st Battalion

marched with Colonel forty-seven battalions, a number Younghusband into Tibet, and the exceeded only by one other regiment, 2nd Battalion was, one of the first and 235,470 men passed through their Cologne in 1910, and was the last to Brish regiments to march into ranks.

Their lat of seventy-eight battle leave Wiesbaden in December 1919, honours shows that during those four The 'newly-joined Fusilier when Commander-in-Chief,

In Commemoration of this the years the Fusiliers were at Mons and General Gallipoll, that they served in Italy, he goes to the depot at Hounslow Thwaites, handed the Union Jacks. Palestine and Macedonia and even In may be interested to know that which had flown over the British such remote spots us Kilimanjaro and ho is close to the spot where his C. into their keeping.

Archangel. predecessors,

even then Royal

Fusiliers, elicered themselves hourse

at the news of the acquittal of the Seven Bishops.*

IT

was in the summer of 1685, the year of Monmouth's re- bellion, that James II. commanded George Lord Dartmouth to raise in London by beat of drum or other- wise" a regiment for the care and protection of the artillery then kept at the Tower.

For this purpose they were armed with n superior type of muskel known as a "fusil," and the king coll ed them "Our Royal Regiment of Fusiliers."

King George V. was their Colonel- In-Chief, and it was in the uniform of the Roynt Fusillers that he pro- claimed at Melbourne in 1901 the in-

Pearl divers

dread this shellfish

foe

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OME of the finest pearls in the world will be worn during the Coronation. festivities. They have probably come from the pearling grounds of Broome, Port Darwin and Thursday Island, in North Australia.

The pearlers in these parts are all white men, because the James II, Roman Catholte Australian Government laws do not allow Aniatics to set up as! King, ordered a Declaration of In- master pearlers, though all the labour employed is Asiatic. The [dulgence (granting liberty of religious seamen in the luggers are Malays and Koepangers, the divers are belief to his subjects) to be read in

all churches (1688). Seven Protest Japanese.

ant bishops who appealed against the Although sharks abound in these waters, they can often be The two order were brought to trial for pub-frightened away by air bubbles and other simple means. lishing

seditionis libel. Their "An Eagle Rising" is the official description of the heraldic bird on the acquittal was blow to the King's things most feared by the North Australian pearl divers are the

giant clam and the stingray."

crest of HMS, Engle, the 20th of her name.

The First "Eagle," of 804 tons was purchased In 1602 as a store hubs for ordnance. She was finally disposed of in 1683.

The Second "Eagle"-belonged to the East India Company's Fleet and, though only of 350 tons, carried 22 guns.

She fought against the Portuguese in the Persian Gulf on 17th of December, 1821, and again on Christmas Day in the same year, in which action her captain was mortally wounded, Agat in 1825 she appeared

gainst the Portuguese in the same wuters.

On the 15th of March 1040, she was wrecked on the Coromandel Const.) The Third "Eagle"-was a Shallop, employed in 1848 on Coast Defence | Dulles off the Channel Islands..

The Fourth "Earle," of 150 tons, mounting 12 guns, was captured from Dunkirk in the year 1650. Two years later, and again in 1653 she was in After taking part action against the famous Dutch Admiral, Van Tromp.

In the Battle of Texel on July the 31st, 1653, where the Dutch were defeated and their Admiral killed, Engle was returned to her owners.

The Fifth "Eagle," of 299 tons and 22 guns, was built at Wapping as the Selby in 1854, and was renamed Eagle in 1660. She fought two actions against the Dutch in 1885. In 1074 she was converted Into a Fireship and, 20 years later, was sunk to form part of a breakwater at Sheerness.

The Sixth "Eagle"-was really the Spred Eagle, captured from the Dutch in 1060, and she was "expended" in the same year as a Fireship in An action off the North Foreland.

The Seventh "Eagle"-was also a Fireship, of 50 tons, and was captured from the Corsairs in 1070. She was "expended" in the first unsuccessful attack against the Algerlan Pirates at Bugla Bay on the 2nd May, 1671.

In 1572 was purchased "The Eighth Eagle," of 208 tons, and she sank next year on her way to St. Helena.

The Ninth "Eagle"--was a Third Rater of 1,047 tons, built at Ports- mouth, in 1679, and armed with 70 guns. She had a complement of 400 and measured 120', by 40′0′′, by 18 ft. draught. She fought against the French from 1880 to 1097, taking part in the Battle of Bardour, on the 19th of May, 1602, and acting as Flagship to Admiral Rooke for the attack at La Hogue on the 24th of the same month.

After being rebullt in 1890, Eagle took part in the attack on Cadiz on 15th August, 1702, at the capture of Gibraltar on the 24th of July, 1704, and at the battle of Velez Maloga on the 13th of August in the same year. In 1705 she participated in the bombardment and capture of Barcelona.

She was wrecked, and lost with all hands, off the Sellly Islands on the 22nd of October, 1707.

The Tenth "Eagle" had only 35 tons and was captured by the French in 1001, the year of her launching.

The Eleventh “Eagle”—of a similar size, was built in 1600 to replace the 10th, and was wreeked on the 27th of November, 1703, during the great storm which wrecked the original Eddystone Light House and killed its Architect, Winstanley.

The Twelfth "Eazio"--was built in Portsmouth in 1744, of 1,130 tons and 00 guns. This ship carried at one time Captain, afterwards, Admiral, Rodney, and at another the famous Captain Cook, who was dirat an able Seaman and had risen to be Mate of the ship by 1755. Elther alone, or acting in Company with other ships, hotably the Medway, Eagle captured the Spanish Esperant, the French Shureham and Bellone, and the French East India-man, Due d'Acquitaine on this last occasion Eagle forced her enemy to strike before Medway could come up. She was sold in 1787.

The Thirteenth “Eagle”—was built at Bombay in, 1754, but nothing is known of her services.

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BLOW, YE TRUMPETS-These are the state trumpets, made of Bolld' silver, that will be used at the coloration of King George and Queen Elizabeth next Wednesday. Depending from each trum- pet is a banneret magnificently embroidered in red and gold, bear- ing the royal arms and the cypher of the reigning sovereign..

The Fourteenth "Eagle"-of 1,372 tons and 74 guns, was built on the Thames In 1774. She' was Lord Howe's Flagship on the north American Station for the next four years, and would appear to have been the first ship attacked by à torpedo, an explosive charge having been fixed to her and in the Adriatic in 1811, 1812 and 1813. bottom by the Americans in an attempt to destroy her. In December 1770, she took part in an attack against the Indian Navy under, Hyder All-another unique incident--and between February 1782 and June 1783 she took part in 6 actions against the French. After becoming a Prison Ship, she was broken up in 1812.

The Fifteenth "Eagle," of 71 tons, lasted from 1704 to 1802, but had no interesting history; her successor the Sixteenth was captured from the French; in 1804 she was renamed Eclipse.

In the same year the Seventeenth "Eazle" was launched and, up to 1028, was still to be seen in Liverpool us . M. S. Eaglet,

In the your of her birth Engle returned to the scene of one of her pre- decessors exploits, being a Flagship to two admirals off the Texel during the period when Nopoleon was preparing to Invade England.

The clam is an enormous shellish -sometimes as much as three or four feet across. The giant clam is usu→ ally found in deep Water umong rocks which in appearance it re- sembles.

When the clam is open, walling for some unwary creature to come nrur, it is a bad lookout for a diver who puts his foot or arm in it. The great shell snaps shut like a steel Trap, and even if a man can get away his diving dress is sure to be forn in the struggle.

Tail has a sting in It

The stingray is a flat, sand-col- oured fish with a long whiplice tail. The body of the fish may often be as much as five or six feet across. This brute lics basking in the sand

or mud at the bottom of the sea, and is dificult to see.

If the diver puts his foot on a stingray the tall comes round like

a lash, and the poisonous burb nt the end will generally inflict a fatal sting.

With all the dangers. he has to face it is natural that the 'diyer should be a highly paid man.

He receives a percentage on all the pearl shell he collects, and, his percentage Increnses with the tonnage gathered. Many of the divers receive cheques of £400 or £500 at the end of a six months' season.

KIW

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KIWAS BLACK

KIWI

After 1832 she was reduced from 74 guns to 50, losing a deck in the process, serving as a Const Guard Drill Ship up to 1800, and from thea Seo the KIWI trade mark on avery tin of shoo polish "you until she was broken up in 1928 as a depot ship at Liverpool.

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth "Eagles" were small craft, which existed buy. It is a guarantos of concurrently with the 17th and are hardly worthy of being named in the finest quality polish. succession.

The present Eagle is thus the Twentieth of her name. She was laid down in 1913 as the Chilian Battleship Almirante Cochrane but, when war, broke out, work was stopped. In 1917 she was bought from Chile, redesigned as an Air Craft carrier, and finally launched in June 1918, being christened by Mrs. Page, wife of the then U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain.

Six years were spent on her trials and she was not commissioned for service until 1024, being drafted to the Mediterranean,

She displaces nearly 23,000 tons and is nearly 070 feet long. She car-.

Up to 1830 Eagle constantly fought the French, at Brest in 1805, in the rtes a full complement of all arms of over in thousand officers and men, Mediterranean in the next two years, at Antwerp in 1809, off Cadiz in 1810, having a speed of about 24 knots.

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