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Reserve officers will count three months of their probationary time in a similar manner.

35. In the event of the conduct or qualifications of any probationary assistant engineer being reported not satisfactory during his twelve months’ probation, or of his failing to pass satisfactorily at the final examination at the Royal Naval College, his commission will be withheld for six months, or for such other period as may be considered desirable.

36. A few assistant engineers may be selected annually from those who take the highest place at the examination at the end of the first session at the Royal Naval College to pass through a further course of instruction during a second session. On the examination at the end of the second session two or more assistant engineers may be selected to pass through a third and final session. Assistant engineers during their second and third sessions will receive 7s. 6d. a day, and 1s. 6d. a day towards the mess. Assistant engineers who complete three sessions at the College will be considered eligible to fill vacancies occurring in the Civil appointments at the dockyards and at the Admiralty, after they have served for three years as engineer officer of a sea-going ship.

37. The final examination of students in naval construction at the end of their fifth year of training as defined in clause 26, will be as follows, subject to modification at any time if considered desirable :—

A.
Marks.
General paper in elementary mathematics and mensuration .. .. .. 500
Statics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics .. .. 500
Dynamics .. .. .. .. 500
Chemistry .. .. .. .. 400
Physics .. .. .. .. 700
Applied mechanics and graphical statics .. 500
Descriptive geometry .. .. .. 400
Algebra, trigonometry, and conic sections .. 500
Conic sections, differential and integral calculus 700
Practical physics .. .. .. .. 300
Total .. .. .. 5,000

B.
Heat, combustion, and metallurgy .. .. 800
Practical shipbuilding (I.) .. .. .. 1,000
" (II.) .. .. .. 1,000
Shipyard machinery, appliances, and practice .. 600
Ship-drawing .. .. .. .. 600
Laying off and mould practice .. .. 1,000
Total .. .. .. 5,000
Grand total .. .. .. 10,000

38. Students in naval construction who obtain 50 per cent. or above on each group of subjects (A and B) will be eligible for entry as probationary assistant constructors on the 1st July of the year of examination, and to proceed to the Royal Naval College on the 1st October following for study. Those who fail to pass the above-mentioned examination will be liable to be discharged, or dealt with as may be determined by their Lordships.

39. On the completion of their training, students in naval construction will be treated in the same way as probationary assistant engineers for a time:—
    (a.) In the case of those who qualify for admission to the Royal Naval College as probationary assistant constructors, until they join the College.
    (b.) In the case of those who fail, until a decision as to their disposal has been arrived at.

40. Probationary assistant constructors who at any time fail to obtain a satisfactory report of their qualifications will be required to withdraw from the service, and forfeit the amount of the bond, or such less amount as their Lordships shall decide to recover, unless the failure be due to sickness. The pay, discipline, &c., of the probationary assistant constructors until the completion of their training at the Royal Naval College will be the same as that of the probationary assistant engineers and assistant engineers of the same service.

41. Such probationary assistant constructors as obtain first- or second-class professional certificates on their final examination at the Royal Naval College will be admitted to the corps of naval constructors, their first appointments being as assistant constructors, third class.

42. When appointed assistant constructors, third class, on leaving the College they will cease to be under naval discipline, except that they will have to proceed to sea for a term if so required.

43. Those who obtain third-class certificates will not be admitted to the corps, but will be eligible to receive appointments as draughtsmen in the dockyards.

44. Every student entering the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors will be liable to serve at any foreign naval establishment the Admiralty may direct.

45. The period of service in the third class for all assistant constructors to be four years. If favourably reported on at the end of this period as to character, ability, and industry, each officer will be eligible for promotion to the second class. Promotions from the second class to the first class of assistant constructors will be by selection. Those officers who have taken first-class certificates on their final examination at the Royal Naval College will be eligible for promotion to first class if favourably reported on after five years’ service, reckoned from the date of leaving the College, and those who have obtained second-class certificates to be similarly eligible after seven years’ service.

46. The assistant engineers who pass the second and third sessions at the Royal Naval College will be attached during the vacations between the 30th June and 1st October to the Dockyard Reserves, where they will be employed in sketching machinery, attending trials of engines, and gaining such professional information as will be most useful to them in connection with designs of machinery. The probationary assistant constructors will be attached to the dockyards during the vacations, and will be employed on duties appertaining to their position.

47. Students on entry are to be provided with the following articles of uniform, according to the patterns laid down in the Uniform Regulations, 1891: One blue-cloth uniform undress coat, one blue-cloth uniform jacket, two blue-cloth uniform trousers, two blue-cloth uniform waistcoats, one uniform great-coat, two uniform caps; two working-suits of blue serge, each consisting of one undress coat, waistcoat, and trousers; one waterproof coat and cape.

At the commencement of the fourth year students are to be further provided with a uniform frock-coat, and mess waistcoat.

Frock-coat, undress coat, and jacket: The same as for clerks, but with one row of ¼in. purple cloth round each cuff instead of white cloth.

Students in naval construction to wear silver-grey cloth round each cuff instead of purple cloth.

Estimated cost of the above uniform, to last three years with care, not more than £20.

A senior engineer student in his fourth or fifth year of service, on requiring a new uniform jacket, may procure a double-breasted one, similar in shape to that worn by a commissioned officer.

Patterns of the working-suit and of the sleeves of the undress coat and jacket are kept and can be seen at the Admiralty, Whitehall, and at the Training College at Keyham, Devonport.

48. Each engineer student on joining the Training College must be provided with the following outfit, the estimated cost of which is about £15: Two white-flannel shirts, two white-flannel trousers, six white shirts, six coloured shirts, twelve collars, three nightshirts, six pairs merino socks, four pairs cotton or merino drawers, four merino vests, two neckties, two pairs braces, six white handkerchiefs, six coloured handkerchiefs, six towels, one clothes-brush, one sponge, one leather bag, one clothes-bag, one brush and comb, one tooth- and one nail-brush, three pairs boots, one pair slippers, two pairs gloves, two pairs gymnastic shoes.

The probable annual expense attending renewals of uniform and other clothes, washing, subscription to recreation fund, &c., is estimated to be about £25.

49. Students will be required to supply their own books, stationery, and drawing materials, and a list of books will be furnished to each on appointment.

50. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candidates for entry as engineer students in Her Majesty’s navy who may be physically unfit for the service, it is suggested that the candidates be submitted to examination by the medical adviser of the family, or any other registered medical practitioner, to whom the following points may be submitted as those upon which they will be physically examined by naval medical officers. It is to be understood that this private examination is merely suggested as a guide to parents and guardians, and to lessen the chances of disappointment, and that it is by no means intended to take the place of, or to influence in any way, the regular official physical examination:—

A weak constitution, arising from imperfect development or weakness of the physical powers of the body, either hereditary or from chronic disease, wounds, or injuries ;