SEA RANGERS
ENGLISH GIRLS IN TRAINING LONDON, August 24. Sea Rangers, girls over the age of 16, from 35 counties to the British Isles, to the number of 270, are undergoing a week's instruction on the training ships Implacable and Foudroyant, in Portsmouth Harbour. The girls are carrying out the ordinary ship routine and rising at 6.30 a.m. to learn boat-sailing, rowing, swimming, knotting, and splicing and manning the capstan, with a fiddler playing on the capstan head in the traditional manner.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20829, 10 September 1937, Page 9
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82SEA RANGERS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20829, 10 September 1937, Page 9
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