Right from the windjammer reign of Britain's sailor-king William IV, through the succeeding steam age of Queen Victoria, and into the present time the Nautical Magazine has been the voice of the experienced navigator. It still is, more so than ever. And not only of masters, mates, apprentices, and pilots, but engineers, radio officers, pursers, stewards, the deck crowd and the stokers. The independent voice of all those whose life is the sea and whose know-how is the key to the world's commerce. So you are welcome to write letters to the Editor-who will print them gladly- on any apt subject under the sun, moon and stars, provided you keep your temper. Your views will be read by owners, builders, marine superintendents, examiners and navigation teachers, for they are all among our subscribers, as well as old timers who have swallowed the anchor but keep abreast of our correspondence columns. Many much needed reforms in the Merchant Service stem from the pages of the Nautical Magazine, which was founded by Rear-Admiral A. B. Becher, the foremost hydrographer of his day, and who was also its first editor for 39 years until he retired in 1871. The Admiralty got so much information out of the Nautical Magazine for its own early survey records that it used to grant the editor 100 (GBP) a year, that is, 50 (GBP) from Naval Funds and 50 (GBP) from the Mercantile Marine Fund. Today our sheet anchor is the subscription at 33.60 pounds (U.K.), 39.00 pounds (Overseas) a year from men - and women, too - who know a good thing when they see it.

So the Nautical Magazine started serving the Merchant Marine eight years before the very first Cunard liner Britannia left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Halifax and Boston. And since that time it has had only seven editors before the present one, who is a son of the sixth editor.

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