Its meaning and importance to this country
Admiral Sir HERBERT RICHMOND,
K.C.B.
The final group of talks in the series, ' Down to the Sea in Shins ', concerns not the Navy alone, but the sea services : the ships, the men, and the forces, such as finance, fuel, and insurance, which make ships move. It is upon these things that the country depends for its food, its raw materials for manufacture, and the fuel which drives its armed forces ; ships, aeroplanes, and a mechanised army. Both the aeroplane and the introduction of oil fuel have affected sea power, and the speakers whom Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond will introduce this evening will explain in what ways their coming has affected each particular subject. In subsequent talks they will reply to the questions raised in the broadcast today.
Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond has been Professor of Naval and Imperial History at Cambridge University since 1934. He was President of the Royal Naval War College, Greenwich, from 1920 to 1923; Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Squadron from 1924 to 1925 and Commandant of the Imperial Defence College from 1927 to 1928. He is the author of many books on Sea Power.