CALLIOPE'S MIDDIES.
A GOOD RECORD. REAR-ADMIRAL HOOD'S END. A coincidence which has been remarked upon by naval men is that in. most of the sea lights which have taken place between Britain and Germany in the present war a prominent part has been played by midshipmen who served in H.M.S. Calliope at the time that ship made her famous escape from Apia Harbour in the hurricajie of March. 1889. The cabled story of the great battle off Starang>~r states that RearAdmiral the Hon Horace Hood went down in the Invincible. Admiral Hood was in command of the fleet that bombarded the enemy on the French coast last year. He was one of the eight, midshipmen who were under Captain Kane in the historic Samoa, days. Others /who cot their schooling in the Calliope, and were in that ship at. Apia in 1889, were Captain Fox, of H.M.S. Amphion (sunk by a mine); Captain Nicholson, of the cruiser Tlogue; Captain Brand, of the Monmouth, who went down with all his crow in the fight off the Chili, coast; Captain DruryLowe, of the Chatham, who made the Kouigsberp; incapable of further mischief ; and Captain Glossop, of 11.M. A.S. Sydney, which destroyed the Emden.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11716, 5 June 1916, Page 6
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