Price Vaughan Lewes
Captain Price Vaughan Lewes, C.B., and D.S.O. (27 February, 1865 – 9 November, 1914) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Lewes was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 June, 1888 and made Commander on 6 September, 1898.[1]
Though overland travel to visit a dangerously ill wife may have removed him from the scene, he was fortunate to receive no apparent blame when the torpedo gunboat Hazard torpedoed and sank a manned steam launch shortly before Christmas in 1899. Luckily, no one was injured.[2]
He was promoted to Captain on 30 June, 1905.[3]
Captain
On 20 December 1905, Lewes was appointed to Hermes for command of the second class protected cruiser Hyacinth. He was reappointed on her re-commissioning in April, 1906 and stayed in her until December 20th.[4]
He was appointed command of the battleship Cæsar on 9 August, 1910.[5]
On 6 June of 1911, he was appointed in command of Commonwealth,[6] operating with the Fourth Battle Squadron.
On 28 July 1914, he was placed in command of the battleship Superb,[7] operating with the First Battle Squadron[8] until forced to leave her in ill health on 4 November. He died on the 9th in Plymouth, of complications of a renal disease and was buried on the 11th in Plymouth Cemetery, grave No. 895, Lot A..[9]
Service Records
- The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
Footnotes
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle. Portsmouth. 23 Dec 1899, p. 8.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27812. p. 4557. 30 June, 1905.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 294.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 438.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1900). p. 257.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Date is not entirely legible. Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Inspected on 14 January. Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1911). p. 290.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 294.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.
- ↑ Lewes Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 300.