LINKS WITH THE PAST

Evening Star, Issue 17086, 3 July 1919, Page 4

LINKS WITH THE PAST

ADMIRAL MORESBY IN HIS NINETIETH YEAR. Tlioie lias just enterod his nintiefch year (says the London 'Sunday Observer')_ a naval officer with remarkable links 'with the past. Admiral John Moresby, atill hale and hearty, though, as he writes to a friend, "very dim-sighted," with "a gale and heavy seas roaring in his head." served for eighteen months- under the late Admiral Sir David Milne, then (1842-45) 82 years old and Comn>ander-in- Chief at Plymouth. Milne entered the service -in 1779. taking paort in Rodney's action-, and Admiral Moresby well remembers the stories he used to tell of men -who had fought with Benbow. There has been a century and. more of Moresbys, for Admiral John Moresby's father, was Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby, who entered the Navy in the closing year of the eighteenth century in the days of flogging and rum and Nelson. It was Admiral John Moresby who, nearly half a century ago, annexed British New Guinea to the Empire, and he is the only sailor who has had the honor of having a ship named after him in his lifetime—the destroyer Moresby, which sank a German submarine, and at Jutland torpedoed an enemy battleship. His whole record is unique, and. he continues to take a most active, interest in. all matters relating- to---his ■jyvofamoa,*