YOUNG JAPAN AT SEA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 123, 17 July 1911, Page 3

YOUNG JAPAN AT SEA.

A busy life is spent by the cadets, 1)1 in all, on board the Japanese training ship, Taisei Marti, notv berthed at, the Port Melbourne Town pier. The cadets are all tinder training to lit them for the highest brandies of the mercantile marine (writes the “Melbourne Argus”). The Taisei Marti, tinder the command of Captain Ftirtiya, is the training ship of the Nautical Collage of Tokio, and the cadets are serving'for a period of two years on board. They have already spent two and a half years at the Nautical College, receiving instructions in the sciences of their profession. Starting in the sixth class, they advanced a class every six months until, when they reached the first class, they were sent to the naval Gunnery School at Yokosuka lor a term of six months. At that stage they were taken-aboard the training ship. It will 'thus, witli two years on the training, ship"and 'six s ouths on an ocean-going steamship, Jake live and a half years to complete their education.'. The cadets are! divided into two ■watches—port and starhoard—and ■ thetc ''watches are isubdivided into five; parts—vik.', forecastle, foretop, maintop, iriiazcntop,! and quarter-deck parties. 1 : By ’ thisj arrangement the studios bf'the Cadets and the classes are carried on from day to day without interfering with the regular routine connected with the management of all sailing ships. Daily,' from 8 a.in. to 4 p.m., all cadets are at work, and at night they are on duty in quarter watches, except in times of very heavy weather, when watch and watch is kept day and night. In the daytime the watch on deck for the first four hours carry on the work of the ship and learn practical'seamanship. With an eagerness‘ ! "which shows that the work is a pleasure to them these cadets bend and unbend sails, sot: and furl sails, repair and renew standing and running tigging and sails, clean and paint, and do other petty work. Hut no matter how potty the details are, heartiness'nn’d willingness are expected of the' cadets, and this spirit seems always to be manifested.