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.[3]
- Captain The Honourable Maurice A. Bourke, 17 January, 1895.[3]
- Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, 14 November, 1895.[3]
- Captain Ernest A. Simons, 10 May, 1898.[3]
- Captain George Le C. Egerton, 4 August, 1898.[3]
- Captain Alexander W. Chisholm-Batten, 3 August, 1899.[3]
- Captain George Le C. Egerton, 24 June, 1901.[3]
- Captain Henry B. Jackson, 10 February, 1902.[3]
- Captain The Honourable Alexander E. Bethell, 6 April, 1903.[3]
- Captain Bernard Currey, 21 December, 1906.[3]
- Captain Stuart Nicholson, 21 December, 1908.[3]
- Captain Edward F. B. Charlton, 11 February, 1911.[3]
- Captain Philip W. Dumas, 15 August, 1914.[3]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Blond, A. J. L. (1993). Technology and Tradition: Wireless Telegraphy and the Royal Navy 1895-1920. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Lancaster: University of Lancaster.
