Difference between revisions of "Annual Manoeuvres of 1904"

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The Royal Navy's Annual Manoeuvres of 1904 was an especially large event.

Order of Battle

The roster would include torpedo craft specially commissioned on 14 July, larger vessels commissioned on 18 July, and a number of ships already in commission.^[1]

• Angler at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Howard John Kennard
• Arab at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Arthur Goodenough Craufurd
• Avon at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Charles Ewer Cundall
• Barfleur at Devonport under Captain Herbert Augustus Warren
• Bittern at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Leslie Jennings Lucas Hammond
• Brazen at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander James Lewis Soltan Kirkness
• Bullfinch at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Ambrose Maynard Peck
• Canopus at Portsmouth under Captain Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, Rear-Admiral Robert Leonard Groome
• Cheerful at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Rowland Edward Stokes-Rees
• Daring at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Harold Goodwin Innes
• Dasher at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Lockhart Leith
• Decoy at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander William Douglas Paton
• Dee at Portsmouth under Commander Frederic William Dean
• Eden at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Ernest Kennaway Arbuthnot
• Electra at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Hugh James Orr
• Express at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Hugh Percival Buckle
• Ferret at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander The Hon. Matthew Robert Best
• Flirt at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Reginald James Newall Watson
• Gipsy at Devonport under Commander Cecil Foley Lambert
• Goliath at Chatham under Captain Edmond John Warre Slade
• Gossamer at Chatham under Commander John Irvine Graham
• Grasshopper at Devonport under Commander Heathcoat Salusbury Grant
• Haughty at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Henry Wise Parker
• Havock at Sheerness under Lieutenant & Commander Ernest Stevenson
• Highflyer at Devonport under Captain Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby, Rear-Admiral Charles Grey Robinson
• Howe at Devonport under Captain Richard Bowles Farquhar
• Hunter at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Colpoys Cleland Walcott
• Itchen at Devonport under Commander Wilfred Henderson
• Kestrel at Portsmouth[?] under Lieutenant & Commander Basil George Washington
• Lee at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Percival Scott Rickcord
• Leopard at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Archibald Campbell Goolden
• Leven at Devonport under Commander George Bowes Hutton
• Lively at Devonport under Commander John Saumarez Dumaresq
• Lynx at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander John Colin Howard Lindsay
• Mermaid at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar
• Opossum was to commission at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Frederick Crosby Halahan, but George Piercy Leith actually took command
• Osprey at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Cecil Vivian Usborne
• Ostrich at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Alfred Frank St. Clair Armitage
• Peterel at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander The Hon. Arthur Stopford
• Quail at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Charles Morton Forbes
• Ramillies at Chatham under Captain William Henry Baker-Baker, Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Poore
• Renown at Devonport under Captain Thomas Benjamin Stratton Adair
• Resolution at Chatham under Captain Charles Edmund Kingsmill
• Ribble at Chatham under Commander Randal Methven Lambert
• Seagull at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Odiarne Unett Coates
• Sharpshooter at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Wyndham Forbes
• Sheldrake at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Henry Edmund Sharp
• Skate at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander William Herbert Grieve
• Spitfire at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Humphrey Thomas Walwyn
• Sprightly at Devonport under Commander Ernest Sausmarez Carey
• Starfish at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Charles Cockin Johnson
• Sunfish at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Alfred Barnett Barker
• Swordfish at Sheerness under Lieutenant & Commander Sidney Julius Meyrick
• Sylvia at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander William Charles Castle
• Teazer at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Clement Loftus Long
• Teviot at Chatham under Lieutenant & Commander Manuel Dasent
• Tiger at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Charles Henry Davey
• Vigilant at Devonport under Lieutenant & Commander Walter John Challoner Lake
• Violet at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Thomas Acland Williams
• Vixen at Devonport under Commander Thomas Leslie Thorpe-Doubble
• Vulture at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander John Beauchamp Waterlow
• Waveney at Chatham under Commander Harold Granville Grenfell
• Zebra at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Llewellyn Evan Hugh Llewellyn
• Zephyr at Portsmouth under Lieutenant & Commander Claude Seymour

Chatham T.Bs.

• T.B. 65 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Howard Vernon Percy Weston
• T.B. 66 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis
• T.B. 67 under Sub-Lieutenant Charles Edward Turle
• T.B. 68 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Clive Neville Rolfe
• T.B. 72 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Frederic Archibald Hunter Russel
• T.B. 73 under Sub-Lieutenant Kenneth Douglas Worsley Macpherson
• T.B. 74 under Sub-Lieutenant Charles Vernon Lowcay Norcock

Portsmouth T.Bs.

• T.B. 25 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Eustace Ruffel Drake Long
• T.B. 27 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Julian Francis Chichester Patterson
• T.B. 33 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Guy Waterhouse Hallifax
• T.B. 34 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Robert Harman Llewelyn
• T.B. 41 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Henry Bone Taylor
• T.B. 42 under Sub-Lieutenant Gerald Lord Hodson
• T.B. 45 under Sub-Lieutenant Harold de Gallye Lamotte
• T.B. 51 under Sub-Lieutenant Erskine Arthur Nicolson
• T.B. 52 under Sub-Lieutenant John Stewart Gordon Fraser
• T.B. 53 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Charles Beecham Land
• T.B. 54 under acting Sub-Lieutenant David Thorburn Graham-Brown
• T.B. 55 under acting Sub-Lieutenant David de Beauvoir Stocks
• T.B. 57 under Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Gregory
• T.B. 58 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Wilfred Neville Custance
• T.B. 78 under acting Sub-Lieutenant Hamilton John Burnett Hall
• T.B. 79 under Lieutenant & Commander (T) William Rawdon Napier (and for command of Milford T.B. Flotilla)
• T.B. 109 under Lieutenant & Commander William Fortescue Sells
• T.B. 110 under Lieutenant & Commander Charles Rodney Blane

Devonport T.Bs.

• T.B. 80 under Lieutenant & Commander Francis Alexander Clutterbuck
• T.B. 82 under Lieutenant & Commander Hugh William Innes-Lillingston
• T.B. 85 under Lieutenant & Commander (T) John Clarke Stewart Paterson
• T.B. 86 under Lieutenant & Commander (T) Brien Michael Money
• T.B. 87 under Lieutenant & Commander (T) Aubrey Lambert
• T.B. 98 under Lieutenant & Commander (T)Edward Morden Bennett
• T.B. 99 under Lieutenant & Commander Albert Siegmund Susmann
• T.B. 107 under Lieutenant & Commander (T) Godfrey Francis William Grayson
• T.B. 108 under Lieutenant & Commander (T) Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard (and for command of Loch Ryan T.B. Flotilla)
• T.B. 111 under Lieutenant & Commander Philip Henry Trimmer
• T.B. 112 under Lieutenant & Commander Vernon Stanhope Rashleigh
• T.B. 113 under Lieutenant & Commander William Werden Wilson

Footnotes