Harold Edmund Denison
Harold Edmund Denison (3 June, 1878 – 24 December, 1953) served in the Royal Navy.
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Life & Career
Born in Toronto, Denison gained two months' time on passing out of Britannia in July, 1894.
On 2 December 1898 he joined College to study for Part I.
Denison was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 April, 1901.[1] On 15 August 1901, he was appointed to Indefatigable on the North American Station. He completed a ten day navigation course while in her with satisfactory results and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 1 April, 1904. He was not superseded in her until 30 September, 1904 and then he proceeded home, arriving 4 November, 1904.[2]
On 5 June, 1906, Their Lordships' expressed their dismay at the dirty condition of the crew of Brazen.
On 5 March 1914, Denison was appointed in command of the torpedo gunboat Jason. Upon the outbreak of war, he was superseded in her and on 5 August appointed to Amphitrite.
Superseded in Amphitrite on 11 July 1915, on 9 August he was appointed to the battleship Jupiter, which re-commissioned three days later.
Jupiter paid off on 22 December, 1916 and Denison was soon appointed in command of the River Class destroyer Ouse. He spent three and a half months in Ouse and then was placed in command of her sister, H.M.S. Kale. Denison was to lose Kale, along with forty men, to a mine in the North Sea on 27 March, 1918.[3][4] A Court Martial found that Denison "had steered a course which was six miles east of the swept channel and straight into a prohibited area which contained a defensive British minefield; details of the restricted zone had been promulgated several weeks earlier, but he had failed to read them or to see that the information provided was marked on the charts."[5]
Denison was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June, 1914.[6]
Post-War
Denison was placed on the Retired List at his own request with the rank of Captain on 4 June, 1924.[7]
See Also
Naval Appointments | ||
Preceded by Harry C. S. Rawson |
Captain of H.M.S. Brazen 18 Sep, 1905[8] |
Succeeded by John R. Corner |
Preceded by Marcus F. B. Whyte |
Captain of H.M.S. Seagull 18 Jun, 1912[9] – 4 Mar, 1914[10] |
Succeeded by Oswald T. Hodgson |
Preceded by Lionel G. Preston |
Captain of H.M.S. Jason 5 Mar, 1914[11] – 1914 |
Succeeded by William H. Darwall |
Preceded by Henry Haire-Forster |
Captain of H.M.S. Kale 14 Apr, 1917[12] – 27 Mar, 1918 |
Succeeded by Vessel Lost |
Preceded by Hugh D. Colville |
Captain of H.M.S. Cleopatra 29 Aug, 1922[13] – 16 Oct, 1923 |
Succeeded by Charles D. Burke |
Footnotes
- ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 21.
- ↑ Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/456. f. 526.
- ↑ Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/456. f. 526.
- ↑ Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 479.
- ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. pp. 125-6.
- ↑ Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/456. f. 526.
- ↑ Denison Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/456. f. 526.
- ↑ The Navy List. (June, 1906). p. 287.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1914). p. 372.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 372.
- ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 333.
- ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394v.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 737.