The Story of the "Britannia": The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.Statham, Edward Phillips
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The Story of the "Britannia": The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.
Statham, Edward Phillips
Britannia (Ship); Great Britain. Royal Navy; Naval education -- Great Britain
Bullying, at Royal Naval College, 30;
in Captain Randolph's time, 75;
in 1877, 104;
held to be a most serious offence, 112;
in Captain Digby's time, 144;
the _Times_ on, 144;
correspondence on, 145-149;
views of "Navilus" on, 163
Cadet captains, 54, 109, 111, 145, 239
Cadet corporals, 44;
a ribald rhyme about, 45;
rousing cadets, 55;
abolished, 164
Cadet Cox, Fatal accident to, 62
Captain's servants, 2
Chapel on board, 155, 232
"Cheeky new fellows," 56
Chief gunner's mates, 164, 167
Chief of the staff, 164
Childers, Mr., 106
Children entered as officers, 3, 4
College on shore, discussed in 1870, 87;
recommended by committee of 1874, 94;
committee on site for, 103
College, The new, at Dartmouth, 182;
laying the foundation-stone, 183;
at Osborne, 245;
the Royal Naval, 8;
Order in Council establishing, 16;
Professor Inman appointed, 19;
date of opening, 22;
a master's untimely optimism, 22;
close quarters, 23;
course of study, 23;
the "college sheet," 25;
opened to commissioned officers, 26;
the end approaches, 26;
closed, 27;
a new phase of existence, 31
College volunteers, 32, 33
Competition introduced on entry, 79;
abolished, 100;
reintroduced, 119;
modified, 120;
finally abolished, 243
Corbett, Captain J., 77
Corfield, Professor, 179
Corporal punishment, at the Royal Naval College, 25, 29;
introduced on _Britannia_, 70;
questions on in House of Commons, 75;
abolished, 76;
humanitarian fads on, 77;
mentioned in regulations, 115;
referred to in the _Times_, 146
Corry, Mr. W., 75
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