LIFE IN THE NAVY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15912, 8 May 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)

LIFE IN THE NAVY.

HAPPY BLUEJACKETS.

A i.i.vk to thank you for the papers which arrived thin evening, writes a seaman on H.M-S. Tiger to a London newspaper. Thev were very welcome, and 1 have spout a muplc of very interesting hours with them. As we hold practically no communication with the shore, papers are a real tie.it. ami we can appreciate the kindly thoughts that prompt the people who send them. We manage to get a good deal of quiet fun out of life. We have a marine band on hoard. Tonight wo hud .1 pleasant mimical evening. Usually we have a rough-and-ready coni pit. ana have a number of very good singer?. Our concert usually consists of about a dozen turns. Kvery free evening then- are .i number of men darning. To anyone not u-ed to naval life nil even.ln,' hen' wouid be inteiesling. Our liatlciy deck is tin- playground. Try to nna/ine ;•. -lee| compartment about fill high, l£ft tu 2011 wide, ami roughly lOOlt hue. One lend dancers ate enjoying llieiilsdvi"* t'. I the .strains of a melodeoii. Pip remni.x.'er lof tin- ' if« ■«<■ .-< altered about, ni.i.-tly 'sealed on tin* deck, hu-v with <ards. ldoniiime>, and papeis- litre ami them Hon "ill sec a fellow up again-t the sido .with a writing pad on bis knee writing i letters. In tip <r.>wd« charting, and everyone, or almost everyone, smoking: in Dianv that a stranger, at any tate m entering would imagine the pl.i mi re. On the lower deck one or two gran.j phones try to outdo each other (or ;.c:.-e. So you see we are not dull.