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...George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans, commander-in-chief at The Nore), his escort consisting of four of Britain's new secret torpedo motor boats. Such a vast wash did they create that dozens of spectators near Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment were swept from their feet, nearly drowned...
...Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven off his ship in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797. In 1806 Bligh was made governor of New South Wales, was deposed in a queer, involved insurrection two years later. At this point Dr. Mackaness records his gravest charge against his hero. After devoting twelve pages to the evidence as to how Bligh received news of his arrest...
Fired by the news of the Channel Fleet's feat, the North Sea Fleet at the Nore next tried to organize a strike of its own. Captain William Bligh, once of the Bounty, now of the Director, was one of the first officers to be put ashore. More aimless and violent than the Spithead mutiny, this "floating republic" made the mistake of threatening a Government that had just made all the concessions it felt like making. When the Admiralty tried to starve them out by cutting off their supplies, the mutineers retaliated by trying to blockade the Port...
...tender Lucia mutinied on a rumor that their Christmas leave was to be cancelled and that they were to paint ship on Sunday (TIME, Jan. 19). All papers last week harked back to the great mutiny of 1797 when the underpaid, scurvy-ridden crews off Spithead and off the Nore turned on their officers. That came in the British Navy's most glorious period. Nelson had just helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Six months after the mutiny Admiral Duncan beat the Dutch at Camperdown...
...other good acts. Ray Hulling led off with his "clown seal", a wonderfully trained animal. Jack Joyce did several clever one-legged dances, in which his incapacity did not seem to bother him in the least. Lou and Jean Archer sang, danced, and exhibited several beautiful costumes. Mae and Nore Wilton also sing duets; these two possess excellent and well-harmonized voices. Joe Morris and Flo Campbell in their skit. "The Avi-Ate-Her" kept the house in a continuous uproar. Vernon Stiles. "Our Own American can Tenor," sang a number of classical pieces. He well deserved the voluminous applause...