We Joined the Navy
“Her white scrubbed quarterdeck, her burnished and brushed guard and band, and the slow ripple of water past the grey side in the golden Mediterranean early morning, completed a picture which had not been wonderfully created by an artist but by a set of instructions embellished by a tradition. Each part of the picture, each member of Barsetshire’s ship’s company was intent on his own role and hardly conscious of the effect which the whole achieved, but together they lifted the heads of the Ameri...can sailors, leaning over the guard rails and chewing their morning gum, and made them listen to ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ which Barsetshire’s band were playing in their honour, and look at Barsetshire herself with respect.Gibraltar was both the start and the finish of a foreign commission in one of H.M. Ships. Every ship on her way to the Mediterranean, South Atlantic, East Indies or Far Eastern Stations counted her time properly abroad from the day she entered Gibraltar. No ship on her way home passed through the Straits without calling there.MoreLess
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