Royal Naval College, Keyham
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The Royal Naval College, Keyham, formerly the Royal Naval Engineering College, was a training establishment for engineer officers of the Royal Navy.
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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:
- Captain Robert S. Lowry, 6 December, 1902.[3]
- Captain T. H. Martyn Jerram, 6 December, 1905.[4]
- Captain Lionel G. Tufnell, 30 July, 1908.[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 1 April, 1914. Issue 40486, col B, pg. 6.
- ↑ "New Naval Engineers" (News). The Times. Thursday, 16 April, 1914. Issue 40499, col G, pg. 4.
- ↑ Lowry Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 800.
- ↑ Jerram Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 692.
- ↑ Navy List (October, 1908). p. 395.
Bibliography