Hidshipmen To Be Abolished

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27368, 5 June 1954, Page 7

Hidshipmen To Be Abolished

jum.) LONDON, June 4. faghipmen, long known by their Kfeas * ’snotties ’ * and officially as Bg gentlemen,” will not serve t thg Fleet after next May, accordIfo the “Daily Telegraph” today. jSrooms in ships will be abolished, igere will be no need for the ■gig cruiser or training carrier. I* naval correspondent of the ggy Telegraph” said in future these ger officers will receive training at •nouth and join the Fleet as acting g-tiie at the college, cadets will •fl one term at sea in a local traingsqv.adron and, as part of the rating ■p.emem, will live on the mess ■fe disappearance of midshipmen Bfog Fl-et will break with a naval ■Bfoh which has existed since the pteenth century. In future most gfc midshipman’s training will be rashore as in the United States IN 3 is the significance of a written rj by Mr J. L. P. Thomas, First the Admiralty, in the House ■Commons on June 3. |F said the early training of officers ■ be entirely reorganised in the f*££the Admiralty’s decision that Igfore all cadets w’ill leave Dartin between the ages of 18 and 19 W will serve in a training ship, pas midshipmen in the Fleet, and pjfoig sub-lieutenants on shore estabfJjChts, before joining the Fleet as ffartenants after three years and a pi training.