NAVY LEAGUE NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10075, 24 August 1910, Page 3

NAVY LEAGUE NOTES.

(Specially Contributed). I BRITISH WARSHJP'3 GALEN- | DER. MONDAY. Forenoon.—General drill. Prepared for action and place out torpedo nets at ship's sides to ward off an enemy's torpedoes. Afternoon.—Gymnastics and small aim drill. At 6 p.m. wash clothes. Once a month, on a Monday, the bedding is thoroughly aired in the open. TUESDAY. Forenoon.—Divisional drill. Torpedo running for practice. Afternoon.—Gymnastics. Boat sailing. : Smallarms drill. Steamboau manned | and manoeuvred. Every other week, j on Tuesday forenoon, ha a mocks have to be scrubbed, WEDNESDAY. Forenoon.—Torpedo exercise, and nets against torpedo attack placed outside ship. Drill for marines and drill for seamen ashore, if possible, with field guns. Afternoon.—Cutlass drill. Torpedo instruction with mines, electric cables, and torpado work generally. Midshipmen and sailor boys drill with gun, small arms, and cutlasses.

I THURSDAY. I Forenoon.—Parties of seamen § and marines exercised as landing f parties. Drill in passing ammuniI tion from shell rooms'and magazines | up to the guns. Once a month, Thursday forenoons, tinmen muster by "open list" to verify their : numbers every two months their bedding is inspected, and every three months their clothes are inspected, and the articles of war, and the returns of courtmartials for the proceeding quarter are read out. Afternoon.—"Make and mend clothes," this is the time when Jack enjoys himself. It is his half holiday, nod if he is in harbour, tradesmen go aboard with their goods for sale, except in gunnery schools and general depots at home, when Saturday afternoon is allotted as his half holiday. FRIDAT. Forenoon.—"General quarters," when the ship is prepared in every way as for action, and the men drilled in all their warlike duties. Afternoon.—The ships boats are "manned and armed," as though there were pirates or slave runners to be dealt with. There is also practice at laying out an anchor. Once a week "fire-quarters" are held, and all pumps tested. Every man stands to his station as though the ship were on fire.

SATURDAY. This is the day for cleaning up the ship in the most thorough manner, and, if in harbour, men who have friends or families in the district often get leave to spend the week end with them; other men go ashore to stretch their legs after noon. SUNDAY. but absolutely necessary work is carried out on Sunday. At 9.30 the men are mustered in divisions, in their best clothes—white duck if in the tropics—and are inspected by the Captain. After this formality the chaplain conducts morning service, and for the rest of the day the men are more or less free. **** * ■ * These particulars leave a great deal of the sailors work unmentioned, because much of it cannot be set down; it is so multifarioun, and varies according to circumstances. **** ' * * Next week a short description of a day's work aboard a warship will be given. ****** The Flagship of the Australian Nation will, in all probability, be the warship to be visited by the Wairarapa school children.