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Page 73
Objectors to the new system point out that an officer may go to sea as senior
lieutenant and executive officer after eight years exclusive engineering
experience, and that therefore he must be a smatterer, an amateur, and a jack-of-
all-trades, ...
Objectors to the new system point out that an officer may go to sea as senior
lieutenant and executive officer after eight years exclusive engineering
experience, and that therefore he must be a smatterer, an amateur, and a jack-of-
all-trades, ...
Page 74
In Lord Cawdor's statement of Admiralty policy published in December, the
subject of officers' education is dealt with as the threatened point most urgently
requiring defence. The Admiralty boldly claim that the anticipations of success
which ...
In Lord Cawdor's statement of Admiralty policy published in December, the
subject of officers' education is dealt with as the threatened point most urgently
requiring defence. The Admiralty boldly claim that the anticipations of success
which ...
Page 75
Retired executive officers are almost unanimous against the decision of the
Admiralty; but so were their predecessors when, forty years ago, the social and
service disabilities of the old navigation branch were abolished, and the whole of
the ...
Retired executive officers are almost unanimous against the decision of the
Admiralty; but so were their predecessors when, forty years ago, the social and
service disabilities of the old navigation branch were abolished, and the whole of
the ...
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ARMAGH The Archbishop of Edmund Burke 77 | 56 |
ListER The Hon Charles The Value of a Public School | 70 |
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