Assistant Director of Torpedoes (Royal Navy)

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

… 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.

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