Assistant Director of Torpedoes (Royal Navy)
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
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Arthur K. Wilson, 7 March, 1887 – 31 December, 1888.[2]
- Captain Edmund F. Jeffreys, 22 February, 1889.[3]
- Captain William H. May, 1 June, 1893.[4]
- Captain The Honourable Maurice A. Bourke, 17 January, 1895.[5]
- Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, 14 November, 1895.[6]
- Captain Ernest A. Simons, 10 May, 1898.[7]
- Captain George Le C. Egerton, 4 August, 1898.[8]
- Captain Alexander W. Chisholm-Batten, 3 August, 1899.[9]
- Captain George Le C. Egerton, 24 June, 1901.[10]
- Captain Henry B. Jackson, 10 February, 1902.[11]
- Captain The Honourable Alexander E. Bethell, 6 April, 1903.[12]
- Captain Bernard Currey, 21 December, 1906.[13]
- Captain Stuart Nicholson, 21 December, 1908.[14]
- Captain Edward F. B. Charlton, 11 February, 1911.[15]
- Captain Philip W. Dumas, 15 August, 1914.[16]
Footnotes
- ↑ Quoted in Bradford. The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson. p. 107.
- ↑ Wilson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/14. f. 211.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Currey Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 36.
- ↑ Nicholson Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 291.
- ↑ Charlton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 282.
- ↑ Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
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