The cruise of 1910 was on the battleship Louisiana and it carried the division around the Island of Bermuda. April 29 the division’s crackerjack wall-scaling team won the world’s championship, in the Twenty-third Regiment Armory in Brooklyn, N. Y., over three competing teams. THE FOURTH DIVISION NAVAL MILITIA CONNECTICUT NATIONAL GUARD Soon after the forming of the First Division an engineer force was outlined and then established and this in time became known as an engineer division. The organizing of the Second Division had its influence on the so-called engineer division. In time the branch as a separate organization seemed to lapse, although its importance was increasing. In January, 1908, an artificer division was called for, in an order from the adjutant-general’s office, to have a maximum enlisted strength of forty, and Chief Engineer William G. Hinckley was placed in command. Commander Cornwell directed Mr. Hinckley and Assistant Engineer Osborne A. Day to enlist and organize the division. Warrant Machinists Noble, Rathgeber and Larkin of the staff were to report to Mr. Hinckley for duty. Mr. Noble was a Second Division alumnus. February 4 Mr. Hinckley submitted the rates. Corinth L. LaRock of Hartford was early appointed a chief machinist’s mate. [Illustration: LIEUTENANT WILLIAM G. HINCKLEY ] A. J. German and Walter B. Gordon of Hartford have also served in the artificer or engineer division, the former becoming a warrant machinist and the latter a chief machinist’s mate. ❦ APPENDIX A ❦ NECROLOGY Lieutenant FELTON PARKER Charter member. First commander. Spanish War Veteran. Annapolis, 1882. Member first Greeley relief expedition on the “Yantic.” Died December 22, 1900, of fall from his horse. Buried in South Lancaster, Mass. Quartermaster (Second Class) THOMAS S. CHENEY Charter member. Died February 8, 1898, of appendicitis. Buried in South Manchester, Conn. Coxswain PHILIP D. BURNHAM Charter member. Died May 19, 1903, of tuberculosis. Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. Seaman GEORGE BISCHOFF Athlete.