LIFE ON A TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 222, 15 November 1900, Page 1

LIFE ON A TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYED.

Sibtioi in torpedo-boat dfttreyer |fl life indeed (eaye aa Bo|M mtM^li font;). lh«rahßO»«wh:asMfWJ road, bat cffiom ar,d ore* let *Ws| pa s with a shrug. Tbelkutaaastofa | oommand are men who etill pttmmm the aoblime audaetty of /oath, Ibotfjhfi it is impend by lie good and mature ofiYotKH that ouuiaa ireavff] a *eo«e of authority and reeponejl i Ity'fl They are the sak of Mr y tug n«*»C: ,| cflioen. B*rrly, untiling n»atst>*t all the mlnu;iia o( tbfii p*ifwsdoi%|Jl they are Tt&Aj ti erd«>t«ke aoffl unleiprsa. bo«e»r d«i»»i, a*d M>B eatrioatei thinner » Irom any difi*J|§ cult>-, bovevr, ap}»te<<tiy o*sf*f(|| rao: • Tae«<*uujin.uii j a. iht> |OaV$Jl con lor a a .o<i"s;m»b wi*« hj»» uot }•* 'Hi f jrgoitcc h ■ lobonlbov mesa or H»li| hia ►eWtlioy •ni.it." Tiiiy etajj Cat tun Ittarrya.V dtom U.\u, fl .fc 'fi no tb* iunla <J ih.ir Uim i<tV'?j| ' >tiuo*<wl, »«tit'u<iH«i gtßC'a J,9 men, who fcave ftilt tb« i.tiua* of AH bearta for any emergency, MM U9 Js hungry for hon> ur at my bazird fl The sbip'<i oonipamts are wi picked li men that is to say,, to«y are pick, d fir „ I their apusal potion. Raeh torpedo* <J boat destroyer ia affiliated t > a battle* || 'hip, aod effioen aid men ate botat <}l oa the booki of that parent. Wntf M man who does not tait the torpedo-bo* m destroyer, or who mkoadauts himself .'J eeriou«iy, ii returned to tbe larger ;; | world of the battleship, where than ,|i ii trttf faoility for keeping hltl it ,f 1 order. At)rpodo-boatdeatroyer , adia> *M ciplinamutt be telf-auutaised. ft/j'l hu no room fir defsalters, and baa (J therefore no room for onenoos. Uk J imponible in a torpedo-boat dtattvftf M that, at tea at any rate, everytbteg : t should be as spick and spaa aa la.tvig big ship. How oo«Jd aeok be t%«m M when foar squat fonnela are peNhf, ft , 9 oontinnou saower of aoot end ei*aM o upon the deck; whan erary epaoe H4| no confined that the dreaa and ptr*M |l moit be ioevitably be ameared witk m oil and dost at every torn, and •be?Jnf ; ll and waabiog era only to be ao»ow>;'» pliahed at dfatant inwivel* with tlaljS grratest difficulty I Of ooaraa, h\M harbour, the trimnen and p'Opriil*/ 'M of Her Majeety'a ahlpa of war M%|S oarefnlly preaerred, and nobody wl»'fl then Titita the imurt and dceoroM J\ little Teasel, and area tbe d'ppor ,; ' i offloera and clean *>praef aeaasea, wmtd y «i*arimagae ttai rrsav-n at and de> J coram utcia. Biuntuita meritably gft /J i.tj the baokgrontd. Aa with pee- k aonalappearanor, eo wih tin M*'S obaerranoe of militarj etiqaeita. Thl ,!|* realties of dUoplme are obetiibed " most awiJnously and obaetnd aott : " : j ttriotly, bat, by f one of oil oimttaaost, | there ia a l.xity in »ome drt«ikofooa> .1 duot whioh would ce»er paaa In * . *? battlsahip or oraiaer. Tbe vtiy J (0 isbed people wboae lot ia oaat ia toe .* very bigs ahirs m»y loot op in the 'A personnel of tuip do erapt a» rcttfh, j *hu Itad aa aocoot* | life, bet turpido-bwt destroyers bar* ■ thflir own esprit da owps-their meat know tbe.r o*n valm. Ih'iy ptldo ." : tibemaelvea on tbeir r io*h work, and i'J they make i« a poit-t ol botoir t» '$ maintain the orodit uf the Bi it>eb Una- ft j tckota afl j»t tnd ashore.— Oooi Wank, |2