The function of the Caledonia is to train boys who enlist in the Navy to become seamen and artificers, The artificers' course will last for three or four years those who complete it will be highly skilled men. There are meantime no artificer apprentices on board, but it is expected that the first batch will arrive in August or September of this year. At any one time they will number not more than about 500, while the full complement of the station will be about 2,000.
The majority of the boys, who will follow what is roughly æ six months intensive training course, will become seamen, signalman, and telegraphists, Recruits for this type of course are now arriving on the Caledonia at the rate of thirty each week, and already their numbers are considerable, These boys have all been recruited through the agency of local recruiting representatives who have sent them to one of the various recruiting centres, Those feeding the Caledonia are found at Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Glasgow. As Liverpool also serves Northern Ireland it will be seen that the area from which the Caledonia recruits is the large one covering the North of England, Northern Ireland, the Scotland. It is estimated that roughly only about-one-third come from Scotland.
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