The Story of the "Britannia" / The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.

by Edward Phillips Statham

Cricket continues to flourish, and a season in which Britannia should fail to win a majority of matches would be regarded as a sort of hideous dream. The editor of the Britannia Magazine would either pass it over in silence or dip his pen in gall and administer such a rating as would, in his editorial opinion, infallibly bring about a different result in the ensuing year; followed, no doubt, by a mild protest against cynicism!

THE BEAGLE WHIPS.
Photo: W. M. Crockett, Plymouth.

These things do not happen, however, as the following figures will demonstrate:—

1898.

First eleven.—Won, 10; lost, 7; drawn, 6.
Second eleven.—Won, 13; lost, 7: drawn, 1.
Third eleven.—Won, 11; lost, 3.

1899.

First eleven.—Won, 10; lost, 5; drawn, 4.
Second eleven.—Won, 10; lost, 4; drawn, 1.

1902.