Thomas Cecil Benfield Harbottle

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Captain Thomas Cecil Benfield Harbottle, R.N. (Retired) (25 November, 1885 – 17 March, 1968)[1] was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in London, the son of Thomas Benfield Harbottle, the compiler of The Dictionary of Battles (1904), for long ‘a standard reference work.’[2]

T.C.B. Harbottle was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 March, 1906.[3]

In February, 1910 he was admonished to be more careful after a collision between C 31 and the ketch The Brothers.[4]

Harbottle was appointed in command of the submarine C 6 on 15 August, 1912.[5]

Harbottle was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 15 March, 1914.[6]

Harbottle was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December, 1917.[7]

Placed on the Retired List on account of age on 1 February, 1928, Harbottle was promoted to the rank of Captain on 25 November, 1930.[8]

World War II

He worked in the Naval Ordnance Inspection Department from 1939 until reverting to the Retired List on 30 September, 1944..[9]

See Also

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
?
Captain of H.M.S. C 31
1 Nov, 1909[10] – 9 Aug, 1910
Succeeded by
Kenneth J. Duff-Dunbar
Preceded by
Vincent M. Cooper
Captain of H.M.S. C 6
15 Aug, 1912[11] – 1 Jul, 1915
Succeeded by
John G. Bower
Preceded by
New Command
Captain of H.M.S. E 55
1 Jul, 1915[12] – Aug, 1915
Succeeded by
Gilbert H. Kellett
Preceded by
New Command
Captain of H.M.S. E 21
Aug, 1915[13] – 10 Jun, 1917[14]
Succeeded by
Henry C. Carlyon-Britton
Preceded by
New Command
Captain of H.M.S. L 9
20 Feb, 1918[15] – Jan, 1919[16]
Succeeded by
Allan Poland
Preceded by
Robert R. Turner
Captain of H.M.S. Alecto
15 Jan, 1919[17] – 15 Jan, 1921[18][19]
Succeeded by
Richard H. B. Everard
Preceded by
Henry Spencer
Commander (S), Fourth Submarine Flotilla
15 Jan, 1919[20] – 15 Jan, 1921[21]
Succeeded by
John G. Bower

Footnotes

  1. The Times (Tuesday, 19 March 1968), p. 18.
  2. Brigadier Peter Young, ‘Foreword’ in G. Bruce, Harbottle’s Dictionary of Battles (second revised edition, 1979), p. 5.
  3. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  4. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  5. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  6. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  7. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  8. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  9. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  10. The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 344.
  11. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 5 Aug. 1912, p. 4.
  12. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  13. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  14. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  15. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  16. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  17. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 725.
  18. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 723.
  19. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 725.
  20. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.
  21. Harbottle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/50. f. 196.