Word: squadronal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick L. Field, a special service squadron of the Royal Navy composed of the battle cruisers Hood and Repulse and the light cruisers Delhi, Dauntless, Dragon and Danae, sailed from Plymouth for a trip around the world that is to last 307 days. The object of the trip was said to be to show the ships in some of the chief ports of the Commonwealth...
...route to be followed: Sierra Leone, Cape Town, where Christmas will be spent. Then the squadron will proceed to India, Sinapore, Australia and back north to Honolulu for Whitsuntide. After this the squadron will steam to Esquimalt, Vancouver and then south to San Francisco for Independence Day. This over, the Hood and Resolute will return via the Panama Canal to Plymouth, but the light cruisers will go to Callao, Peru, there to take place in the centenary celebration of the Peruvian Independence Day,* after which they will follow their big sisters home through the Panama Canal...
...duties involved are: first, attendance at a Friday drill; second, attendance at a two weeks tour of duty at camp. Pay at government rates is allowed for this work, but part of it is turned in for the benefit of the Squadron...
Freshmen and Sophomores interested in Military Aviation have been offered an opportunity to join the 101st Observation Squadron 26th Division Air Service. At present there are ten vacancies and Lieutenant G. H. Fiske '14 has opened the enrollment to the two lower classes of the University...
Three of the vacancies are in the Military Intelligence section and seven in the photographic. The members of these aoctions will have an excellent opportunity to learn the rudiments of flying, as the Massachusetts Air Squadron has put nine planes at the disposal of the 26th Division Air Service for 15 to 20 hours a week...