The cruiser Vindietive—2o well known on the China Station—has been selected for conversion into a training ship for cadets of the Royal Navy, and has just paid off at Portsmouth Into 'Docixyard control for that pur-ose. She will have her armament modified, like other of her 10,000-ton class, 'The Vindietive has a rather= urlous history. She was built Belfast by Harland & Wolff, Ltd., 'Queen's Island, and was to have' borne the name of HIMES. Cavendish, after Admiral Cavendish, an old sea dog of Elizabethan times, but that name was changed to her' present one to perpetuate the memory of that old third-class cruiser Vindictive, which went to her doom so gallantly when. she was sunk at Ostend Harbour in deftting up the German submarines, after having taken part in the raid at Zeebrugge, The new Vindictive was used:
fast cruiser to carry seaplanes the Grand Fleet, for which service she was provided "with 4 hangar for the planes in lieu of a '75-inch gun. In 1923-25 che became a cruiser again, but retained her seaies and catapult equipment. She served in the East for some time.
Ca, has placed an order for a sister ship with the same builders, The second ship will be an 11,000 tonner, diesel-engined and have a speed of about 16 Knols, the most. economic speed for long suns, The Dilwara was the rst pose senger liner built for dual service—fan ordinary liner in the summer months and a troop carrier in the autumn and winter. She made her rst voyage in January, in. which owners. month she was taken over by her
The baton which H.RH. the Duke of Connaught, the senior Field Marshal of the British Army, presented to the King—his nephew—at Buck-Ingham Palace on Tuesday—in the Dresence of a deputation of Field Marshals—bears the simple inseription "His Majesty King Edward VI, Field) Marshal, January 21, 1936," therefore omitting the full ities of the Sovereign, heretofore inscribed on the baton, as the desire of the King.
The baton—which Ju the olden days was used as a roller on which to bear the plan of battle—measures 23 inches in length, covered with red velvet and ornamented round the inseription with gold scroll work and on the main body of the baton eighteen gold Mons, beautifully chased. "The head. oot the baton Is a figure of St, George and the Dragon. The ceremony was 'a purely formal one. One faiailiar gute was absent—one who had looked forward to being present. the late Field Marshal the Viscount Allenby of Moggido,
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