ADMIRALS AT SCHOOL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3190, 8 April 1911, Page 9

ADMIRALS AT SCHOOL.

YOUNG LIEUTENANTS GIVE THEM LESSONS IN NAVAL WARFARE.

Fifteen Rear-Admirals, captains and commanders began a special full term at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, on February 13th, for the purpose of undergoing a course of advanced gunnery and signalling. These middle-aged, highly-placed and distinguished pupils wore gold-laced uniforms and sat in a large, comfortably but not luxuriously, furnished room in the college listening for three hours with rapt attention to the teachings of round smooth-faced lieutenants, . who were much their juniors in service, but senior in knowledge of their own particular branch of war work. The school is the outcome of one or the many reforms introduced by Lord Fisher when he was First Sea Lord. Progress in naval science has been so rapid of recent years that it has been impossible for senior officers to keep pace with the vast number of improvements which have been made in every one of the highly technical departments of a warship. The Admiralty, therefore, decided to establish a series of special instructional courses. The subjects chosen are gunnery, signals ,torpedoes, and war, and the course in gunnery.