An item referred to the magazine U.S.R. dated 20 April 1939 reporting that the First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Stanhope (1) stated that the British Royal Navy still was lacking enough artificers. The Admiralty needed to take more measures to solve this problem. Transferring technical personnel from factories to the navy was no solution while the factories could not miss them for settling all weapon orders.
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1. James Richard Stanhope, 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope (11 November 1880-15 August 1967), conservative politician, who was First Lord between 27 October 1938 and 3 September 1939 and succeeded by Winston Churchill. 
