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THE NAVY.
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the corps of sailors shall count 2,825 men, divided in 16 companies. The
corps is filled partly from the corps of boys (generally at the age of
18 or 19), and partly by voluntary enlistment for a time of 21/’» to 6
years. Re-engagement for 2 years at a time is generally permitted and
becomes obligatory after each passed examination in the schools for
non-commissioned officers.
The Naval College at Stockholm.
The men of the corps of sailors are distributed on four branches:
executing-branch, miscellaneous, engineer branch, and artificer branch, and are trained for 13
different occupations.
The corps of boys counts, according to the budget, 400 numbers in two
companies. The age of admission is between 16 and 18, and the training takes
two years, during wintertime in a school at Karlskrona, in summertime on board
sailing trainingships.
The conscripts for the navy embrace partly men engaged during the old
organization, who remain in the first call of the conscripts up to the age of 32,
partly all stokers of the mercantile marine, and all seamen who when they
reach the conscript age, have served in foreign navigation for 12 months, and
partly others, selected among the main body of conscripts. The conscripts are to
be trained at sea (from 1903) during 172 days and from 1908 during 10 months.
The number of conscripts is about 17,000, and about 1,600 are trained each year.
The oivil-military personnel has 24 constructors and engineers, 76
accountant officers and paymasters, 8 clergymen and teachers, and 36 surgeons. The
labourers (paid by month or day) consist of a sufficient number of mechanics and
tradesmen of different kinds, generally employed in the navy-yards.
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