“ADMIRAL” CRICHTON WANTED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 8

“ADMIRAL” CRICHTON WANTED

tbv Air Mail—Own Correspondent! LONDON, 29th December. The royal research ship “Research,” now being built at Dartmouth, perhaps the oldest important seaport in Britain, will be ready for launching next spring. She is an auxiliaried brigantine—i.e. she lias engines to supplement her white wings—and will probably start her career oi scientific sea-going about September, 1939. Her purpose is to conduct surveys in magnetic variation amongst other things. She is the second non-magnetk. vessel built and equipped in the whole world, and will be a repository of all sorts of pi eeision instruments and other up-to-aaie scientific gadgets. She replaces the U S. vessel Carnegie, which was lost by an explosion off Samoa, where R.L.S.’s tombstone is a seamark, nine years ago. The Admiralty may conceivably have less difficulty in securing the complete scientific staff needed for H.M.R.S. Research than to get Hold of a really eligible captain to command her. The Navy’s Hydrographed is already advertising for somejne who combines windjammer skill with special scientific attainments.