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ON November 20, 1925, the Admiralty issued a Fleet Order which, while to some extent affecting all branches of the Navy, has raised serious questions regarding the future status of the officers of the engineering branch. Hitherto there have been five branches in the service, but this order brought into being thirteen separate categories. Some of these, however, such as the dental branch, the schoolmaster branch, and the wardmaster branch, are but small sections of the personnel. The branch principally affected is the engineering branch, and the situation created by the order was felt to be so adverse to the best interests of the service that Lord Weir, Sir Charles Parsons, Sir John Thornycroft, and Sir Archibald Ross jointly addressed a letter to the press on the subject. This letter has been followed by other communications and articles, and on January 14 a deputation representing the Institutions of Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Naval Architects, and Electrical Engineers, and also the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, waited upon the First Lord of the Admiralty (the Right Hon. W. C. Bridgeman) to place their views before him. So far no account of this deputation has been made public, but we can scarcely think that representations made by such a responsible body will be disregarded.
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The Status of the Naval Engineer. Nature 117, 185–187 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117185a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117185a0