Assistant Director of Torpedoes (Royal Navy)
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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
- Captain Arthur K. Wilson, 7 March, 1887 - 31 December, 1888.[2]
- Captain Edmund F. Jeffreys, 1889 - 1893.[3]
- Captain Henry B. Jackson, 10 February, 1902 - February, 1903.
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