R.N.R.
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"Don't fool around with it, Ted," said another of the crew, who, an R.N.R. man, had seen life and death in the Great War.
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"Not the least, sir," replied the master of the Dimpled Lassie, Peter M'Kie, skipper R.N.R.
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The last of the motor-boats had brought up alongside the Calder when Sefton recognized the R.N.R. sub-lieutenant in charge as an old friend of pre-war days.
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Upon the outbreak of war, commissions in the R.N.R. motor-boat service were flung broadcast by the Admiralty at the members of the Motor Yacht Club, and amongst those who donned the pilot-coat with the gold wavy band and curl was Algernon Stickleton.
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Then he was put through a rapid course of signalling and elementary navigation, and, having "stuck at it", the budding sub-lieutenant R.N.R. was sent to the East Coast on a motor-yacht with the prospect of being given a fast patrol-boat when deemed proficient.
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