SEAMEN GOING ALOFT
JACK AND HIS DUTY NEW ADMIRALTY ORDER A recent refusal of a seaman to obey an order to go aloft has suggested that thero may bo some seamen who do not fully understand that it is their duty to go aloft when required to do so. For that reason, the Board of Admiralty, in current Fleet Orders, desires it to, be mado plain that to go aloft is part of the duty of every seaman. Strange as iir may seem in an ag© of power-driven ships, says a Sydney journal, thero are even in a modern man-o'-war many occasions on which it is necessary to send men aloft. For example, when a ship is dressed with flags in honour of a distinguished visitor or a national celebration, the bunting has to be attachod to the mastheads by seamen. Again, hands may bo sent aloft to repair wireless aerials or paint topmasts and trucks. This sort of work calls for steady nerves, and it is possible that certain men might ■ hesitate to undertake it unless their obligation to do. so was laid down in the regulations. Such, one gathers, is the inner significance of tho new Admiralty Fleet Order.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 12
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