THE NAVY. YEARLY PAY OF NAVAL OFFICERS AND SEAMEN. Admirals, £1,095 to £2,190; extras £547 to £1,643. Commodore, 1st Class, £1,095; extras, £547 to £1,095. Captain, £410 to £602; extras, £91 to £329. to £73. £183 to £256; extras, £18 £1,004. Fleet Surgeon, £493 to £602; extras, £46 to £91. Staff Surgeon, £383 to £438; extras, £46 to £91. Surgeon, £210 to £283. Chief Inspector of Machinery Afloat, £639. Chief Engineer, £237 to £401; extras, £18 to £256. Engineer, £164 to £219; extras, £18 to £73. Stoker, £39 to £52. Chief Carpenter, £164; extras, £5. Carpenter (Officer), £100 to £150. Naval Instructor, £219 to £402. Secretary, £274 to £548. Paymaster, £256 to £602; extras, £45 to £91. Assistant, £91 to £210. *REGULATIONS RESPECTING NAVAL CADETS. * Undergoing revision. 1. Appointments to Naval Cadetships are made by limited competition, with the undermentioned exceptions:-Four Cadetships given annually to sons of gentlemen in the Colonies, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Service Cadetships, the total number of which is not to exceed five in any one year. Service Cadets will be selected by the Board of Admiralty from (a) sons of officers of the Army, Navy, or Marines who have been killed in action, or who have been lost at sea on active service, or killed on duty, or who have died of wounds received in action or injuries received on duty within six months from the date of such action or injury; (b) sons of officers of the Navy who have performed long or distinguished service, and who hold or have held rank or relative rank on the Active List not lower than that of Commander. Not more than two such latter Service Cadets will be nominated annually. Applications for Service Cadetships should be addressed to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Army; to the Secretary of the Admiralty, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Navy or Marines; and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Indian Army. Colonial and Service Cadets are entered on passing the test examination as specified in paras. 9 and 10. A fee of ten shillings will be required from each candidate for examination. 2. Except in special circumstances, not more than one-third of the number of candidates actually presenting themselves before the Civil Service Commissioners will be entered. 3. All nominations of candidates for Naval Cadetships are made by the First Lord, with the exception of a limited number which are at the disposal of individual members of the Board, and of the Secretaries to the Board of Admiralty. A Flag Officer or a Commodore 1st Class appointed to the chief command of a station, or to a separate command, and a Captain, on first appointment as such to the command of a ship, will be allowed to nominate one candidate, provided the privilege is exercised within six months of appoint- Proverb-A place for everything and everything in its place. i. Arithmetic including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions; ii. Algebra, up to quadratic equations of one unknown quantity; iii. Geometry; Euclid, Book I.; iv. English: handwriting, dictation, reading, and composition; v. French: translating French into English and English into French, grammatical questions, speaking and dictation; vi. Scripture. Candidates will be further examined in -vii. Mathematics: harder questions in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry; viii. Latin: translation, grammar, and prose composition; ix. Geography; x. English history: a short selected period; xi. Drawing, freehand, and simple rectangular model. 10. A candidate who passes the test examination, but does not succeed in the competition, will be entitled to compete at the next examination, provided he is within the limits of age at that time. No candidate will be allowed to compete more than twice. II. A candidate, who, owing to illness, fails to appear at the examination for which he has obtained his nomination may receive a second nomination, provided he is VESSELS OF still within the limit of age. 12. For all Cadets, the payment will be at the rate of £75 per annum for the period in the "Britannia," to be paid half-yearly in advance to the Cashier of the Bank of England, on receipt of claim from the Accountant-General of the Navy. But the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve power of selecting, from among the Cadets entered at each half-yearly examination, a number, not to exceed eight, being sons of officers of the Navy, Army, or Marines, or of Civil Officers under the Board of Admiralty, with respect to whom the annual payment will be £40 only. In this selection regard is had solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the Cadet. Applications for the Reduced Scale must be received at the Admiralty, not later than 10th August and 10th January following the June and December examinations respectively. The period of training on board the "Britannia' will be four terms; there will be two terms in each year. The first term of each year will be from February to July, the second from September to December. OUR NAVY. The following is a list of the principal vessels of the Royal Navy, with tonnage, guns, and horsepower. The date in brackets after name indicates year when the ship was launched. |