THE NAVY'S MOST UNCOMFORTABLE JOB

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 3 October 1929, Page 5

THE NAVY'S MOST UNCOMFORTABLE JOB

ACTING AS GREW OF TARGET SHJP founded by guns of three BATTLE CRUISERS. ATLANTIC FLEET PRACTICE. (Received 1.1.1/5 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 2. The Navy’s niost uncomfortable job must be that of crew of the target ship, Centurion, says the “Times” naval correspondent, who is attending the Atlantic iloet manoeuvres. It is an almost daily round of placing belongings behind armour, abandoning the ship and watching her being riddled mercilessly, and then recovering possessions and repairing the damage. To-day the Centurion was pounded by the battle cruisers Renown, Repulse and Tiger and bombed by aircraft, and then finally subjected to close range to a night attack by the Nelson, which, steaming without lights, sighted the Centurion hy searchlights at a distance of two thousand yards. The Nelson’s six-inch shells threw up a fountain of spray and showers of sparks as they struck the armouredl hull, funnels and superstructure. Thereafter the destroyler, Shikai, which wirelessly -(operates the Centurion switched on. her lights, and the Centurion’s crew returned to make the best of their much-batter-ed quarters. —Australian P.A., “Times” Service,