Navy's push for female recruits
Daily Express|December 09, 2021
THE Royal Navy yesterday pledged to make sure 25 per cent of new recruits are women.
Laura Elvin
Navy's push for female recruits

HMS Raleigh, in Torpoint, Cornwall, has increased its capacity to train female sailors with accommodation for 120 women.

Currently one in six sailors passing out of the Royal Navy’s principal basic training base is a woman–up on last year.

Of 513 civilians finishing the ten-week training course – learning drill, tradition, leadership and weapon handling – in November, 88 were female.

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