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comment on the men or their instructor is superfluous." The list included rifle, battery, 

 and boating prizes. 



The Royal Navy Artillery Volunteers are raised under an Act passed in 1873, and 

 are directly subject to the authority of the Admiralty. They may be assembled for 

 actual employment, their duties then consisting- of coast or harbour service. They are not 

 required to go aloft, or to attend to the engine fires, but in regard to berthing and messing 



THE " GKEAT HARRY" AND "GREAT EASTERN" IN CONTRAST. 



must conform to the arrangements usual with seamen. The force is formed into brigades, 

 each brigade consisting of four or more batteries, of from sixty to eighty men. Each 

 brigade has a lieutenant-commander, and each battery a sub-lieutenant, chief petty officer, 

 first and second-class petty officers, buglers, &c., while the staff includes a lieutenant- 

 instructor, first-class petty officer instructor, surgeon, bugle-major, and armourer. Those 

 desiring to join a corps should communicate with the Secretary of the Admiralty. The 

 annual subscription to the 1st London Corps is one guinea, while each member has to 

 provide himself with two white frocks, one blue serge frock, one pair of blue trousers, one 

 blue cloth cap, &c., black handkerchief, flannel, knife, lanyard, and monkey-jacket, costing 

 in the neighbourhood of six pounds. When on a cruise, in gunboat, the volunteer 

 requires in addition serge trousers and jumpers, flannel shirt, towels, and brush and comb, 

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