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able seamen administration Admiral Admiralty afloat appointed armoured armoured cruisers Atalanta batteries Board of Admiralty boilers boys Brassey brigade brigs British Captain Childers Coast Volunteers Coastguard colonies commission Committee considerable corps cost crews cruise cruisers dockyards drill ship duties efficiency employed engineers England enrolled estimates expenditure experience favour First-class fishermen fleet force foreign Frederick Grey French Navy give Goschen Government gunboats gunnery guns harbour important increase instruction ironclads large number lieutenants Lord Lord Clarence Paget Majesty's Majesty's ships maritime ment mercantile marine merchant service Naval Artillery Volunteers naval officers Naval Volunteers navigating necessary number of seamen officer-instructor opinion ordinary seamen organisation Parliament petty officers pilotage ports practical present proposed question repairs Royal Naval Artillery Royal Naval Reserve sailing ships seagoing seamanship shipbuilding squadron stations steam steamers tion tonnage tons torpedo training ships unarmoured United States Navy vessels
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Page 429 - The next day he anchored at Gibraltar; and on the 20th, says he, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16th, 1803 ; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days.
Page 568 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the...
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Page 323 - Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the seventeenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the words following, viz.
Page 543 - House to the report of the Committee on the higher education of naval officers, and he had never ceased to watch the Naval University at Greenwich with the deepest interest. While admitting that the resources of that University had in the main been well applied, the recent report of the Committee, appointed by the Admiralty to inquire into the organization of the College, suggested some doubts as to whether the studies of half-pay officers, who were voluntary students, had been in all cases judiciously...