[66] Now Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., the famous commander of our Grand Fleet.
[67] Now Major-General Johnstone, C.B.
[68] Engineer-Commander Chas. E. Eldred, R.N., Everybody's Book of the Navy.
[69] "The Progress of Dreadnoughts", Journal of Commerce, 4th March, 1915.
[70] "Your Navy as a Fighting Machine." Fred. T. Jane.
[71] Particulars from Submarines, Mines, and Torpedoes in the War. C. W. Domville Fife.
[72] Paper by Lieutenant C. N. Hinkamp, United States Navy, reprinted in Journal of Commerce, 29th April, 1915.
[73] German ships, by the way, are often provided with a heavier astern fire than a forward one, so that apparently they have long decided to fight a retreating action. The opposite system is pursued in our navy.
[74] Except between 1713 and 1739, when there were no marines.
[75] "Fixed" is, perhaps, not the right word to use. Up to and including part of the nineteenth century, marines and soldiers seem to have been enlisted for an indefinite period—for as long or short a time as the Government chose to keep them.