... WITH THE FLEET AIR ARM-No. 1 A SPOT OF BOTHER WITH A SKUA OR SOME SUCH BY WING-COMMANDER E. G. OAKLEY BEUTTLER Things have reached a pass when they can neither hoist her and swing her inboard nor decently lower her in the green and greasy ocean that is, until the two artists perched up aloft have finished burning the wire through with that acetylene blower. When they do, down she goes plop. ...

... -MEL WITH THE FIGHTING FORCES AN OPERATORS' TRAINING BATTALION, ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS The layman no doubt associates the word operator with a person who says Sorry you have been trahbled. This unit has no more to do with that sort of thing than it has with the Ministry of Information. Its function is quite different if only the intriguing truth might be told, which, regrettably, it cannot ...

... DESTROYER DIFFICULTIES No. 10 SHOVING OFFl-i BY WING-COMMANDER E. G. OAKLEY BEUTTLER Tragedies like this will happen when they try to pnsh the stem of one of onr smaller destroyers off the dock, waff with a long pole rather like the one of which bargees are so fond. It is usually a bit of a trial when the wind starts slewing the ship round and the mooring ropes, or hawsers, take occasion to ...