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From a court martial there is no appeal. Month ago Captain Henry Richard Sawbridge of H. M. S. Renown marched stiffly into a courtroom in Portsmouth dockyard and saw that his sword lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME...
...every court martial are automatically reviewed by the Lords of the Admiralty, forming in effect the Navy's Supreme Court. They have the power to alter or reverse decisions. Last week the Navy's Lords sat down before a huge bundle of papers to review the Hood & Renown case without advocates, prosecutor or witnesses...
They knew that on the fateful morning of Jan. 23, the Hood and Renown, approximately ten miles apart, were leading parallel columns of cruisers in battle practice off the coast of Spain. At 11:35 a. m. Admiral Bailey, as Commander of the Squadron, ordered from his flagship, the Hood, what the court martial referred to as an "inclination exercise." The ships were to swing together to form a single line of battle, and from the Hood's chartroom Admiral Bailey himself set the course for both ships: 254 degrees for the Hood, 192 degrees for the Renown. Apparently...
...unable to absolve Rear Admiral Sidney Bailey from all blame. He adopted an unusual procedure in directing the Hood and Renown to steer definite courses so close. ... It was incumbent on him at the proper moment to make a further signal to re-form his squadron...
Captain Tower of the Hood, acquitted by the court martial, was also called "not without blame." If he had put his ship on the "projected course," the Renown would have been able to drop safely in behind. Finally last week the Lords of the Admiralty in effect reversed the court martial's conviction of Captain Sawbridge of the Renown. His reduction to half pay was canceled. His sentence was reduced to a mere "reprimand." And in final vindication he was restored to full command of the Renown. Plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if a British admiral...