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*{{CaptRN}} [[Robert Swinburne Lowry|Robert S. Lowry]], 6 December, 1902.<ref>Lowry Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/39.  f. 800.</ref>
 
*{{CaptRN}} [[Robert Swinburne Lowry|Robert S. Lowry]], 6 December, 1902.<ref>Lowry Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/39.  f. 800.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram|T. H. Martyn Jerram]], 6 December, 1905.<ref>Jerram Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/38.  f. 692.</ref>
 
*Captain [[Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram|T. H. Martyn Jerram]], 6 December, 1905.<ref>Jerram Service Record.  The National Archives.  ADM 196/38.  f. 692.</ref>
*Captain [[Lionel Grant Tufnell|Lionel G. Tufnell]], 30 July, 1908.<ref>''Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 395.</ref>
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*Captain [[Lionel Grant Tufnell|Lionel G. Tufnell]], 30 July, 1908.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 395.</ref>
 
*Engineer Captain Charles G. Taylor, 15 August, 1913.<ref name=Penn197/>
 
*Engineer Captain Charles G. Taylor, 15 August, 1913.<ref name=Penn197/>
 
*Captain G. R. Mansell, 14 September, 1914.<ref name=Penn197/>
 
*Captain G. R. Mansell, 14 September, 1914.<ref name=Penn197/>

Revision as of 13:28, 14 September 2012

The Royal Naval College, Keyham, formerly the Royal Naval Engineering College, was a training establishment for engineer officers of the Royal Navy.

History

The college was reopened on Wednesday, 1 April, 1914, under the command of Engineer Captain C. G. Taylor, M.V.O. The new purpose of the college was to give a year's training to those officers under the Selborne Scheme who were qualifying as Lieutenants (E), after a preliminary scientific course of six months' length at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The first course composed of seventeen officers began on 16 April.[1][2]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

  • Commander R. W. Hope, 1 June, 1880.[3]
  • Commander W. M. Annesley, 20 December, 1883.[3]
  • Commander W. D. Morrish, 20 December, 1885.[3]
  • Commander T. B. Briggs, 7 January, 1892.[3]
  • Commander A. B. Grenfell, 6 January, 1895.[3]
  • Commander H. Talbot, 7 January, 1895.[3]
  • Commander A. E. Tizard, 1 October, 1900.[3]
  • Captain Robert S. Lowry, 6 December, 1902.[4]
  • Captain T. H. Martyn Jerram, 6 December, 1905.[5]
  • Captain Lionel G. Tufnell, 30 July, 1908.[6]
  • Engineer Captain Charles G. Taylor, 15 August, 1913.[3]
  • Captain G. R. Mansell, 14 September, 1914.[3]
  • Captain H. J. T. Marshall, 23 August, 1918.[3]

Footnotes

  1. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 1 April, 1914. Issue 40486, col B, p. 6.
  2. "New Naval Engineers" (News). The Times. Thursday, 16 April, 1914. Issue 40499, col G, p. 4.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Penn. p. 197.
  4. Lowry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 800.
  5. Jerram Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 692.
  6. The Navy List (October, 1908). p. 395.

Bibliography

  • Penn, Geoffrey (1984). HMS Thunderer: The story of the Royal Naval Engineering College Keyham and Manadon. Emsworth: Kenneth Mason. ISBN 0-85937-321-5.