By the Editor – The author poses more questions than he furnishes answers. But he has an outsize spoon to hand in stirring this pot! And perhaps he is right to do so. What should be done about the Family Silver? I am reliably informed by a colleague who works in Portsmouth Dockyard that within the Yard are two heavily locked storerooms bulging with trophies. Certainly, in living memory, almost all of HM Ships and all our Cs-in-Cs’ residences and Wardrooms ashore, both at home and abroad, had more than an abundance of silverware and much of meticulous craftsmanship. Of course, when HM Ships wer…
