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==Assistant Directors of Torpedoes==
 
==Assistant Directors of Torpedoes==
*Captain [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Arthur K. Wilson]], 7 March, 1887 - 31 December, 1888.
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*Captain [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Arthur K. Wilson]], 7 March, 1887 - 31 December, 1888.<ref>Wilson Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/14.  p. 211.</ref>
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*Captain [[Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|Edmund F. Jeffreys]], 1889 - 1893.<ref>''Who's Who''.  '''LV'''.  p. 724.</ref>
  
 
==Footnotes==
 
==Footnotes==

Revision as of 16:49, 14 May 2010

Captain Arthur K. Wilson, appointed on 7 March, 1887, wrote on 13 March:

… I understand I am to be called Assistant Director of Torpedoes, Captain Fisher being called Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes, instead of only Director of Naval Ordnance. I made a slight protest, but was told it was all settled and could not be altered. It is rather as if they had offered me a situation as cook and then made me scullery-maid. They are going to be very liberal in the matter of pay, however, as they propose to give me £950 a year, and I was rather glad to see that in explaining the matter to get the money out of the Treasury the Admiralty were obliged to say that, although I was called Assistant Director, I should have the greater part of the work of the Director …[1]

Assistant Directors of Torpedoes

Footnotes

  1. Quoted in Bradford. The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson. p. 107.
  2. Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/14. p. 211.
  3. Who's Who. LV. p. 724.

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