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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]]
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • 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]]
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  • ...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
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  • 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}}
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  • 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
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  • ...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
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  • ...(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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • 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,
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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]]
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  • ...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]]
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  • ...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
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