The Royal Navy . artmouth, are as far advanced in mechanics andhydrostatics as a lad of seventeen would attain tounder ordinary conditions, and in mathematicshave reached to the solution of plane the workshops that are attached to the establish-ment, elementary instruction in the handling oftools and machines is as perfect as instruction in thestudies ; and practical knowledge both in mechanicalstudies and seamanship is obtained in the two in-structional steamboats and the torpedo boat thatare attached to the college. After two years atOsborne the cadet passes to Dartmouth, where
The Royal Navy . artmouth, are as far advanced in mechanics andhydrostatics as a lad of seventeen would attain tounder ordinary conditions, and in mathematicshave reached to the solution of plane the workshops that are attached to the establish-ment, elementary instruction in the handling oftools and machines is as perfect as instruction in thestudies ; and practical knowledge both in mechanicalstudies and seamanship is obtained in the two in-structional steamboats and the torpedo boat thatare attached to the college. After two years atOsborne the cadet passes to Dartmouth, where thesame system of training is followed, only, of course,more advanced. Dartmouth is a ship, as isOsborne, and the great Nelson Hall is officially anduniversally known as The Quarterdeck. Thereare six terms of cadets at Dartmouth, and to eachterm is allotted two dormitories, between which isthe cabin of the lieutenant in charge of theterm. For each term there is a gunroom some GERMAN BATTLESHIPS AND DESTROYERS i^,. THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN 329 sixty by thirty feet, not including the spacious baythat extends for half the length of the room; andat one end of the corridor that runs the lengthof the great building is the chapel and at theother the spacious dining-hall and kitchen. Ineach term are a lieutenant in charge of the cadetsand an engineer lieutenant in charge of thetraining in the workshops, while there is also aheadmaster and a very large staff of assistantmasters. The interest the boys take in their workis shown by the fact that not only on wet holidays,but at other times, the cadets will give up theirspare time to work for themselves in the practical work at sea there is a modern sloopfitted with triple-expansion engines, as well as amodern destroyer of the sea-going class. In short,both at Osborne and Dartmouth the training givenis about as perfect and complete as could be con-ceived. In the four years that the boy has had ofshore training he has been superbly t
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