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...s Haines Marshall Jackson|Francis H. M. Jackson]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Defiance (Torpedo Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Defiance'']]'''<br>8 Jul, 1915{{NLNov1 [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]]

...ced in temporary command of {{UK-2Orion}}, which was then a depot ship for torpedo boats at Malta during the absence of Commander (D) [[Henry FitzRoy George T ...e Flotilla, Prichard took a Senior Officers' Technical Course and a Senior Officers' War Course before being placed on the Retired List at his own request on 1

...re as a Lieutenant in {{UK-Magnificent}}, c. 1905.<br><small>From official officers' photograph in album of [[George Napier Tomlin]].</small>]] ...to the rank of {{LCommRN}} on 31 December, 1909 after contributing to good torpedo practice results in the ship that year.<ref>Moore Service Record. {{TNA|AD

...aval Ordnance Store Accounts, including the Store and Cost accounts of the Torpedo Factory at Greenock. ...ition, Torpedoes, &c. are maintained at the several Ordnance and Whitehead Torpedo Depôts, and will inform the Director of Naval Ordnance if any difficulty i

...ird Sea Lord. All drawings and specifications connected with ordnance and torpedo mountings are to be signed by him and the Director of Naval Ordnance. ...d for the mechanical arrangements connected with the supply and fitting of torpedo apparatus, and electric lighting of ships or boats.

...primarily served at the {{UK-Vernon|f=tp}} except for some time serving as torpedo officer in the battleships {{UK-Formidable}} and {{UK-KingEdwardVII}} in 19 ...}}, however, until being appointed to the [[Portsmouth Signal School]] for torpedo duties in April 1918.<ref>Hallifax Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/67.|D7

...ring an unfortunate incident in which he was blamed for three stoker petty officers refusing to follow an order which had been delivered without tact.<ref>Drin In January 1919 he requested command of torpedo craft in the [[Royal Australian Navy]], but post-war service saw him spend

About a dozen torpedo boats, all but T.B. 92 under command of a Gunner or a Chief Gunner, made up [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...vessels employed and to be employed therein. And all Captains, Commanding Officers, and Companies belonging to the said ships are hereby charged and commanded | Battleships<br>First-class cruisers<br>Smaller cruisers<br>Scouts<br>Torpedo gun-boats<br>Depôt ships and fleet auxiliaries<br>Destroyers<br>Submarines

The '''Type M''' [[Renouf Torpedo Tactical Instrument]] was conceived around 1919 and in 1920 a pair were pla The device's function is explained in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School'', 1919.{{ARTS1919|pp. 120-4}}

In order that Flag Officers and Captains under my command may be fully aware of the principles which wi ...be advantageous if within torpedo range.</s> If the enemy is seen to have torpedo craft in company a gap of 7 6 cables is to be left between the rear ship of

...of guns being pointed on the wrong target, but fire may be continued over torpedo craft which are proceeding to attack the enemy. ...s far as possible, to train the fleet as a whole, and to exercise the flag officers, captains, and personnel in the duties which will be required of them in wa

...(1913)|''Laforey'' class destroyers]], encountered four obsolescent German torpedo boats heading out to sow mines. ...four ships approaching. Ten minutes later, they were identified as German torpedo boats in line abreast. The British closed and the Germans turned away both

...NLJul85|p. 214}} From ''T.B. 3'' he went to {{UK-Vernon}} to qualify as a torpedo Lieutenant on 30 September, 1885.{{NLDec85|p. 256}} Hamilton attended a fiftieth anniversary dinner with other surviving officers present at Alexandria at the United Service Academy on 11 July, 1932. He w

...es Streeten was appointed additional to the {{UK-Hecla}} and, briefly, for torpedo duties in the {{UK-1Indus|f=t}} before returning to the ''Sultan'' on 26 Ju ...8 February, 1897, with retired pay of £395 a year. Although many retired officers volunteered for duty during the First World War, Streeten's service record

At the College he obtained a second class in College, Part I, a first in Torpedo, a second in gunnery, and a second in pilotage. On 1 March, 1893 he was ap ...College, [[Henry John May|Henry J. May]], in setting up a course for flag officers. On 6 June he was appointed to the {{UK-Leviathan}} for navigating duties,

...ubRN}} [[John Preston Churchill|John Churchill]] were the first Royal Navy officers to be killed on active duty aboard a submarine. ...Commodore Murray F. (1907). ''The Evolution of The Submarine Boat Mine and Torpedo from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Time''. Portsmouth: Gieve's.

...the "hostile" {{UK-TB84}}. Cochrane was not blamed in the sinking of the torpedo boat.{{HepperLosses|p. 19}} On 5 June, he was invalided from command due t [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...y giving a speech in which he spoke of Admiralty intentions to establish a torpedo boat base at Dartmouth. It was thought that greater reticence should be ad [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Mr. Vickery's School]]

...e until 27 October 1905, when he was appointed to {{UK-Forth}} to instruct officers and men in submarines and to command submarines himself. On 20 December an ...ember and he began a series of four command appointments in destroyers and torpedo boats that would take him to retirement in two years time. The first appoi

...>'''[[Charles Grey Robinson|Charles G. Robinson]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Defiance (Torpedo Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Defiance'']]'''<br>29 Jan, 1892{{NLMar [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]]

In May 1911, he passed for command of torpedo craft as he was serving as an acting interpreter in German for the Third Fl In 1934 he attended a course for Sea Transport Officers and was to be considered for work as such in case of emergency.

...ange of bearing instrument]] and an [[Crace Enemy Torpedo Calculator|enemy torpedo calculator]]. ...January, 1913, Crace transferred into the {{AU-1Australia|f=t}} to be her torpedo officer and to assist on staff of the {{UK-CS}}. He would be in her when t

...and in command of the Sheerness-Chatham T.B. flotilla, {{UK-TB072}} lost a torpedo and the Admiralty determined that Brooker did not spend enough time in sear ...912-13 produced such unharmonious relations between himself and his junior officers that a Court of Enquiry was convened in January 1914, resulting in the find

...''' were slightly enlarged versions of the preceeding [[Sharpshooter Class Torpedo Gunboat (1888)|''Sharpshooter'' Class]]. All but three saw service in the ...ten considered an enlarged variation on the preceding [[Sharpshooter Class Torpedo Gunboat (1888)|''Sharpshooter'' class]]. In general, it inherited the repu

...destroyers]], which quickly took over the torpedo gunboat's intended anti-torpedo boat role. The ''Dryads'' were enlarged ''Alarms'' with a poop added for additional officers' accomodations and the engineering spaces rearranged so that the engines we

...'' set the pattern for the remainder of the Royal Navy's [[Torpedo Gunboat|torpedo gunboats]]. Of the thirteen ''Sharpshooters'', four were built by [[Armstr ...ter'' class [in ''The Times'', this generally also meant the [[Alarm Class Torpedo Gunboat (1892)|''Alarm'' class]] as well] that the vessels are unfit for ac

...hirteen [[Sharpshooter Class Torpedo Gunboat (1888)|''Sharpshooter'' class torpedo gunboats]]. This class was followed by others which hoped to improve upon ...jack}}, and it was reported that "it is the univeral opinion amongst naval officers who have had experience of the ''Sharpshooter'' class that the vessels are

...On 8 September, 1904, he was appointed to {{UK-Bulwark}}, additional, for Torpedo duties at Malta. After a year there, he was appointed in command of the {{ ...il 5 November, 1912 when he was appointed to {{UK-Lancaster}} as first and torpedo officer.<ref>Bennett Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|}} f. 8.</ref>

| Rangefinder, Fire control, and Torpedo control exercises. | Exercises with torpedo craft.

...in designation, perhaps the first Royal Navy depôt ship for a flotilla of torpedo craft. ...s'' and listed as being "lent to the 'Valorous' for temporary service with Torpedo Boats".{{NLJul84|p. 249}} She carried out the same duties again in the summ

==Torpedo Control== ...rick A. Traut]] in command, although the U.S. Navy's officer ''Register of Officers'' lists Traut as having been assigned to the Naval Academy starting on 15 N

...[[Alfred Thayer Mahan|A. T. Mahan]], U.S.N. 'On the entry and training of officers in the Royal Navy under the new scheme'; Secret letter from Fisher to Thurs ...gramme, 1907; New Admiralty Scheme. Training of lieutenants in gunnery and torpedo, 1903; Manoeuvres and operations of the particular service squadrons, 1885;

...service in the [[U.S. Navy]]. The ships were handsome, and enjoyed senior officers, Captain as commanding during America's involvement in the [[Great War]], d * two 18-in torpedo tubes

|{{US-Intrepid|f=p}}||torpedo ram||5 Mar, 1874||Sold 9 May, 1892 ==Engineer Officers==

...bcock then was appointed Flotilla Torpedo Officer for the Atlantic Fleet's Torpedo Flotilla, beginning an association with [[William Sowden Sims]]. Babcock wa Like so many retired officers, Babcock was recalled to active duty during World War II. He was in charge

...ptain [[Frederic Charles Dreyer|Frederic C. Dreyer]] succeeded Singer, the torpedo branch was devolved into the [[Director of Torpedoes and Mining (Royal Navy Dreyer would tell a high-level meeting of Naval Staff officers (presided over by the [[Second Sea Lord]]) in 1920 that:

.... On 17 August, 1915 he was appointed to {{UK-RoyalSovereign}}, to be her torpedo officer upon commissioning. ...{{UK-Southampton}} as torpedo officer on 19 March, 1919. He also provided torpedo services to the entire {{UK-LCS|7}}, and indeed the Fleet while in this app

...ass in Gunnery (878 out of 1,000 marks) and on 13 October a first class in Torpedo (186 out of 200 marks). His obituary in ''The Times'' claimed that "In his [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...ay as a Lieutenant in {{UK-Magnificent}}, c. 1905.<br><small>From official officers' photograph in album of [[George Napier Tomlin]].</small>]] ...taff at {{UK-Vernon|f=p}} before being sent to the {{UK-Majestic|f=t}} for torpedo duties from mid-July 1907 to 7 January 1908.

...onging to Tristan Dannreuther. Also a printed examination paper for junior officers afloat dated June 1889. A notebook entitled "navigating officers workbook" belonging to Tristan Dannreuther and relating to the HMS MELITA f

...87 &ndash; 15 February, 1926) served in the [[Royal Navy]] as an inventive torpedo officer. ...He was granted a month's sick leave to regain his health. He received his torpedo qualification on 25 August, 1911, passing with 1612 of 2000 marks, but ill

...the flotilla, as he would leave ''Royalist'' in April to continue flotilla torpedo duties as an additional man in {{UK-Faulknor}} and later {{UK-Saumarez}}. [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...1910''. p. 3. {{TNA|ADM 7/936.}}</ref> In March he took a second class in Torpedo (150 out of 200 marks), in April a second class in Pilotage (774 out of 1,0 At some point he served in [[H.M. T.B. 33 (1909)|H.M. Torpedo Boat 33]], and on 18 April 1911 he was appointed to ''Blake'' for the destr

...hannel Squadron: letterbook containing letters to the Admiralty and Senior Officers, 24 May 1867 to 15 November 1870. ...hannel Squadron: letterbook containing letters to the Admiralty and Senior Officers, 12 September 1871 to 13 March 1872. Volume One of Six.

...eeping sloops. The Second would be a mix of ten sweeping sloops and older torpedo gunboats, while the Third would be comprised of twelve paddle minesweepers. ==Senior Officers==

...eeping sloops. The Second would be a mix of ten sweeping sloops and older torpedo gunboats, while the Third would be comprised of twelve paddle minesweepers. ==Senior Officers==

|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=5 | '''Sweeping Torpedo Gunboats''' ==Senior Officers==

...eeping sloops. The Second would be a mix of ten sweeping sloops and older torpedo gunboats, while the Third would be comprised of twelve paddle minesweepers. ==Senior Officers==

Cameron was first and torpedo officer in {{UK-Hecla}} from 26 August, 1908 to 22 March, 1910. At some po ...Whitby Abbey'']] and as assistant to Captain in Charge of Minesweepers for torpedo duties from 25 June 1917 until 9 March, 1918.

|type=first-class torpedo boat |chain=Torpedo Boats,First-class Torpedo Boats

...l enlisted persons, and to the preparation of estimates for the pay of all officers and enlisted men. 4. It shall keep the records of service of all squadrons, ships, officers, and men, and prepare an annual Navy Register for publication.

==Navigation Officers== ==Ordnance Officers==

...s appointed for temporary service on a Selection Board for Temporary Entry officers, and on 19 May was given command of the auxiliary minelayer ''Southern Prin

...applied mechanics of engineering", and recommended him as a candidate for torpedo lieutenant. Head indeed qualified as such in March, 1906. [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]]

...rotection duties in the Gulf of St Lawrence, 2 Oct 1841 and also a list of officers who served on the SNAKE, May 1839-Nov 1841. Printed book: 'General Instructions for the Five Principle Officers of the Civil Department of the Navy', Admiralty, London, 1844, with annotat

...s appointed to the {{UK-PrinceOfWales|f=t}} on 1 January 1913 as first and torpedo officer. He was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 30 June, 1914 and wa [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...rch, 1882. He remained in {{UK-Vernon}} as part of the staff, to instruct officers.<ref>Gladstone Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38/532.|D7578856}} ff. 521, 5 ...1Trenton|f=tp}} and used his considerable skills in photography to advance torpedo development.<ref>Gladstone Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38/532.|D7578856}

...ng officer in a number of mostly small ships. He was appointed to the old torpedo gunboat {{UK-Hazard}}, which was operating as a depot ship in support of a Ramsbotham was among the many notable naval officers who attended a [[Royal Navy Club]] dinner on 28 March, 1930 at the Hotel Vi

...Raid]], and was responsible for seeing the men off after the ship's senior officers had been killed or incapacitated.{{ToL|Fleet Gunnery Officer|Tuesday, Nov 1 ...y, 1944 while in command of the {{UK-Penelope|f=t}} when she was lost to a torpedo attack by ''U 410''.<ref>Belben Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/119/133.|}}

...Baronet|Cowan's]] 1916 evaluation. In August 1917, he was appointed to a Torpedo Control course at {{UK-Vernon|f=p}}, and then to the {{UK-Foxhound|f=t}} on * ''Fallen Officers'' The Times. Wed Oct 18 1939, p. 11.

..., to the Officer who claimed first place in the examination to qualify for Torpedo Lieutenant. ...ed through dividends arising from a sum of about £240 given by Royal Navy officers and also certain friends and relatives of Captain Ogilvy. Any balance that

...nwich]] (December 1892, 2nd Class), the torpedo course at [[H.M.S. Vernon (Torpedo Training School)|''Vernon'']] (January 1893, 1st Class), the gunnery course ...Beresford hauled down his flag on 24 March 1909. In April he did a Senior Officers' navigation course, and in June he was appointed to [[H.M.S. Exmouth (1901)

...ass in gunnery on 13 April. Immediately afterwards he was appointed to the torpedo depôt ship ''Hecla'' in the Mediterranean, under the command of Captain [[ ...d to [[H.M.S. Vernon (Torpedo Training School)|''Vernon'']] to qualify for Torpedo Duties at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. It is thought he didn't compl

...he was working with submarines attached to {{UK-Vulcan}} as her first and torpedo officer.<ref>Bourne Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45/60.|}} f. 60.</ref> [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...vember 1918 he was appointed Assistant Superintendent at the [[Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock]].<ref>Ball Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45/67.|}} f. 6 ...>'''?'''|'''[[:Category:Torpedo (UK)|Assistant Superintendent, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock]]'''<br>Nov, 1918<ref>Ball Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196

...at {{UK-Vernon|f=p}}, Feilding was appointed to the {{UK-Defence|f=tp}} as torpedo officer on 6 January, 1913 and was promoted to the rank of {{LCommRN}} on 1 In May, 1915, he was thanked for his ingenuity in devising, along with other officers, an extempore director firing installation in the ship.

Waring served as torpedo officer in the {{UK-Inflexible|f=tp}} from 27 July 1909 to 12 October 1910 [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...s not in sight from "Chester"). As the "Chester's" course laid her open to torpedo attack by the destroyer at once, course was altered to starboard from about ...s and other matters when I have had further opportunity of consulting with officers of the ship.

...y, the Admiralty thanked him for his invention of a/an "[illeg]iarator for torpedo gyroscope." [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]]

Appointed to {{UK-Warrior}} as torpedo officer on 1 July 1913, Bromley would survive her loss in the aftermath of [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]]

...education; battle and cruising formations; the submarine and the Whitehead torpedo. 1 file. 1902–1903. ...ssibility of action against Germany; naval education; the future of Marine officers; the comparative strength of Britain and Germany. 1 file. 1906–1907.

...wkes [Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth] on subjects including the press paying officers for news and commercial views on Australian defence (4); Vice-Admiral Sir H Correspondence with flag officers. Correspondents include: Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore [Commander-in-Chief

'''Torpedo Planes''' (land-based aeroplanes, floatplanes or seaplanes) were envisioned ...ment of Torpedo Aircraft'' which appeared in in the [[Annual Report of the Torpedo School]] for 1918.{{ARTS1918|pp. 89-96}}

...e of Dover Strait]] on 20-21 April 1917 resulted in the loss of two German torpedo boats and a clear British victory. The Germans then changed strategy, launc ...ight without stopping in Flanders in order to achieved surprise. Its eight torpedo boats were meant to sail on 13 February but were delayed a day by bad weath

...iming itself the "only Professional Institution Open Without Ballot to all Officers of the Navy, Army, and Auxiliary Forces." ...y Brine]]||subject: "On the best method of providing an efficient force of officers and men for the Navy, including the Reserves"{{NMI|5 Sept. 1881, p. 10}}

...itson as a Sub-Lt. in {{UK-Magnificent}}, c. 1905.<br><small>From official officers' photograph in album of [[George Napier Tomlin]].</small>]] ...ice aboard the battleship at [[Battle of Jutland]], where she was hit by a torpedo.

...Engineer Commander in {{UK-Magnificent}}, c. 1905.<br><small>From official officers' photograph in album of [[George Napier Tomlin]].</small>]] ...Engineer on 1 July, 1881. He was sent to {{UK-Asia|f=p}} for a course in torpedo instruction.

...p; a dialogue between volunteers, containing account of ship's complement, officers, duties of crew, etc, 1742. ...nd Equipping for sea a ship of each class, with the amount of wages to the officers and seamen, with proportion of stores allowed for each ship, for Channel an

...and two 19.7 inch torpedo tubes versus three 4 inch guns and four 21 inch torpedo tubes on the British destroyers. The Germans had a maximum speed of 34 knot ...e existing organisation it was almost impossible to fight the guns and the torpedo tubes simultaneously...and...the range and deflection transmitters were not

...ake all necessary action to engage the enemy.'{{UKNavalOpsV| p. 84}} R.N. officers were bound to interpret this as an order to attack her. ...give up due to the risk from shore batteries and mines. They picked up 14 officers and 148 men from the ''Breslau''.{{UKNavalOpsV| pp. 84}} Her official crew

...n-Chief, Roger Bellairs, documents on 'Operation XX', and reports by other officers. Torpedoes. Including notes on torpedo lectures; notes on torpedo battle practices; reports; memoranda; letters with correspondents including

...but his ships would have to turn under heavy fire and probably attacks by torpedo boats. His problem was that the lack of reports from his scouting forces me ...and [[Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar| Kenneth Dewar]], two brothers and RN officers who wrote an internal Admiralty study of Jutland highly critical of Jellico

...calibre firing practices besides meeting and conversing with many of their Officers. In the exchange of information I have dealt principally with the following Officers :-

...on (Torpedo Training School)|''Vernon'']] in Portsmouth Fletcher passed in torpedo with a third class certificate (130 out of 200 marks) on 23 February, 1906. ...{{UK-Cochrane}} instead. On 18 April his name was removed from the list of officers of the Royal Navy. His service record eloquently states: 'Gave further trou

...port was read aloud:&mdash;"Shell struck division XIII starboard. The deck officers' mess is destroyed and is burning. The front electric switchboard ...ned as he took hold of them but he had carried out the orders of the first officers and had saved the ship from explosion.

...th all information. I have tried to fill in the gaps by conversations with officers whom I know; this has resulted in some contradictory statements, and severa ...ile they were still afloat, they were sunk by a few broadsides. One of the officers who was picked up was in pyjamas and is said to have stayed in his cabin du

...d 24 shell hits (38 cm. 34.3 cm. and 30.5 cm.)(15", 13.5" and 12") and one Torpedo hit. ...gases, and they were so far successful that, according to the opinions of officers, at least one ship, if not two, was saved by their use.