THE NAVY’S SEA-LEGS
COMMANDER KENWORTHY'S ATTACK ■;i- ' ©V LONDON, April 14. ’lg ‘‘Those is far too much barrack ipot-Btampicg and flag waving in the 1 Navy tyday. The trouble is that there are top many stone f rigates. V Lieutenant-Commander Kemvorthy, who was the heavyweight boxing champiou of the Navy, goes a long way with Captain McNeil, ox-commander of the Mauretania, who in an interview on Tuesday, declared that the Navy
spent, too little time afloat. ! “But I do not agree that the whole of the Navy has lost its sea legs,’ ’ Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy said. “Officers ami men of the destroyers and submarine service are still the finest seamen. The curse of the Navy is the predominance of gunnery experts. “Captain McNeil is right when he says we must- go back to sailing ships. It was stupidity ever to get rid of them. Wo are the only nation with a great mercantile marine that does not provide sailing-ship training facilities. n
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17802, 10 June 1932, Page 3
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