MANNING OF GUNS
MERCHANT SHIPS TRAINING FOR CREWS (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Oct. 18. In several schools, in training ships and elsewhere, officers and petty officers of the Royal Navy are training' merchant seamen in the use of guns, so that they can handle the defensive armaments with which passenger ships, cargo vessels, trading steamers and tramps are being equipped. There is no lack of volunteers for training. The course lasts for a fortnight and the men are taught lowangle and high-angle gunnery and given lectures in trade protection and defence against submarines, mines and gas. in the first week of the war at one of these schools 87 officers and men were undergoing training. Last week the figure was over 200.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 5
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