How did the Royal Navy prepare to replace engineering crews lost in combat?
Short answerIt hurriedly expanded training and reopened Keyham in 1913 as war approached; the response is characterized as panic.
NotesThe viewer asks how Britain prepared to replace engineering personnel lost when ships were destroyed. The Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham reopened in 1913 as war approached. The service was surging officer production, especially in engineering, after having closed the separate college only three years earlier. The deliberately blunt description, panic, emphasizes the urgency of the mobilization rather than a calm, mature casualty-replacement system.