SPECIAL GUNNERY COURSE FOR MERCHANT NAVY OFFICERS AND MEN, TO TEACH THEM HOW TO SHOOT DOWN ENEMY AEROPLANES. 1941. ADMIRAL SIR FREDERICK DREYER, GBE, KCB, THE INSPECTOR OF MERCHANT NAVY GUNNERY, HAS DEVISED A SPECIAL COURSE IN GUNNERY TO TEACH OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE MERCHANT NAVY TO SHOOT DOWN ENEMY PLANES. SO THOROUGH IS ADMIRAL DREYER THAT HE WENT THROUGH THE COURSE HIMSELF TO MAKE CERTAIN OF ITS EFFICIENCY. THE COURSES ARE RUN AT EVERY PORT. - Clay pigeons released by a sailor which are shot at by merchant seamen to enable them to get their eye in. ,

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