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• H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)
  ...ool''' or '''Whale Island''' was the British [[Royal Navy]]'s main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...information of the naval service in that branch of their duty."<ref>"Naval Gunnery" (News). ''The Times''. Friday, 20 August, 1841. Issue '''17754''', col
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• H.M.S. Cambridge (Gunnery Training School)
  ...''''', an old 80-gun third-rate launched in 1815, became the first Gunnery Training ship at Plymouth. ...ame part of [[Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport]] as the [[Devonport Gunnery School]], under the general control of the Commodore-in-Command.{{NMI|Tuesday, 5 N
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• Frank Oswald Lewis
  On 11 November, 1902 he was appointed to the {{UK-Flora|f=t}} as first and gunnery officer.<ref>Lewis Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/356.|D7602681}} f. 391 ...oke out, Lewis was serving at Portsmouth as the Superintendent of Physical Training. An appointment to {{UK-Charybdis}} was considered in October 1914, but is
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• King George V Class Battleship (1911)
  * Gunnery Control Tower: 4 inches ...Fire Control Instruments, 1914'', Plate 46, ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916'', p. 145}}
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• Iron Duke Class Battleship (1912)
  ...either or both of the other groups on its broadside. See the notes on the gunnery groups to see how this loosely mimics the fire control instruments.{{ARTS19 ...be upgraded to 15-foot instruments, with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship (1913)
  ...by just a single revolution of the hand wheel.<ref>Brooks. ''Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland'', pp. 45-46. I am inferring the performance.</r ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Revenge Class Battleship (1914)
  ...fire control outfits of these ships in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''. ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Invincible Class Battlecruiser (1907)
  ...ntrol system for this class is found in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913''. It features descriptions of adapted forms of existing Barr and St ===Gunnery Control===
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• Courageous Class Battlecruiser (1916)
  There is significant information on this in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.{{ARTS1915|p. 239}} ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Admiralty Pattern Number
  ...mens, in use in ''Dreadnought'' c 1911.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1911'', p. 95.</ref> |105 || [[Vickers Range Clock]]<ref>Admiralty. 'Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920, pp. 19-20.</ref>||
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• H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)
  ..." on the centre line and "P" to port and "Q" to starboard.<ref>''Manual of Gunnery in H.M. Fleet (Volume I), 1907'', p. 1.</ref> ...received this in a retrofit by November, 1909.<ref>Brooks. ''Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland'', p. 46.</ref>
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• H.M.S. Invincible (1907)
  ...rey Otway Tupper|Reginald Tupper]] of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']], who conducted the gun trials, later recalled: ...own electrical experts and commercial firms, and the apparently successful gunnery of the new American battleships that had been fitted with electrically mani
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• H.M.S. Furious (1916)
  ...Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 486.</ref>|note=ship is a gunnery training ship}} ...its own 8-cell battery.{{ARTS1916|Plate 73. ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915'', p. 239}}
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• H.M.S. Agincourt (1913)
  ...Newcastle as soon as possible and proceed to the vicinity of Loch Ewe for gunnery and torpedo practice.<ref>"Grand Fleet Operations - Narrative of Events." ...'''s Fire Control Diagram'''<br>As shown in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.]]
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• H.M.S. Erin (1913)
  ...'''s Fire Control Systems'''<br>As shown in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.]] ===Gunnery Control===
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• Churchill Memorandum on a War Staff for the Royal Navy
  ...rent class of officers. The War Staff is to be the means of preparing and training those officers who arrive, or are likely to arrive, by the excellence of th ...once a convenient and flexible machine for the elaboration of plans and a school of sound and progressive thought on naval science.
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  ...readnought'']], concentrated the fleet in home waters, and reorganised the training and distribution of personnel. Having retired in 1910, he was then instrum ...s']; this officer obtained high first class certificates in seamanship and gunnery, and has now passed in navigation under the Regulations laid down in Circul
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• Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss
  ...A, p. 14.</ref> He was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1877. He left on 24 July, 1 He returned home and was appointed to [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] at Portsmouth on 19 August, 1884,<ref>ADM 196/20.
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• John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe
  ...entrance examination and passed into the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a naval cadet on 15 July, 1872.<ref>Bacon. ''Earl ...him meet required stints at sea while spending more energy on the study of gunnery before returning to ''Excellent'' where his talents received the influentia
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• Henry Bradwardine Jackson
  ...onal Maritime Museum. JAC 1, 2.</ref> Jackson joined [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|H.M.S. ''Britannia'']] on 23 January, 1869. He was entitled to a Fir ...nted to the ''Excellent'' for study, and on 30 October, 1875 he joined the training brig ''Liberty''. On 26 May, 1876, he was appointed to the corvette ''Rove
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• Arthur William Acland Hood, First Baron Hood
  ...an administrator. The ''Excellent'' was, and is, the school of scientific gunnery, and after three years in her Hood was appointed Director of Naval Ordnance ...tley Cooper Key|Astley C. Key]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>3 Sep, 1866{{NLDec68|p. 193}}|Succ
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• Morgan Singer
  ...of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. After a career as a gunnery specialist, in 1914 he was appointed as [[Director of Naval Ordnance and To .... T. Tudor]] as commanding officer of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] on 1 June, 1912.<ref>"New Director of Naval Ordnanc
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• Archibald Peile Stoddart
  ...to the gunnery school at Portsmouth, [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']], where he obtained a Second Class with 515 marks. O On 19 April, 1884, he was appointed to ''Excellent'' for the Short Course in Gunnery, in which he obtained First Class marks, and a Second Class Torpedo certifi
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• Edward Buxton Kiddle
  ...assed the examination he was made by the monitors (junior prefects) at the school to ask for a half-day's holiday. He was awarded the Freeman prize; a silve Kiddle was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1879.<ref>ADM 196/42. f. 38
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• Francis Herbert Mitchell
  "Commander Francis H. Mitchell (Commander for Gunnery Duties) failed to exercise proper supervision by allowing a drill order to ...bert Nesham Bax|Robert N. Bax]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>13 Jun, 1920<ref>Mitchell Service
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• Hubert Edward Dannreuther
  ...ng as Lieutenant (G) on 31 August, 1904. Eight months spent on the junior gunnery staff on the books of ''Wildfire'' followed.<ref>Dannreuther Service Record ...nergy demonstrated in the initiative lauded. Other innovations included a gunnery control system employing stethoscopes. By the turn of 1906, he was appoint
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• Frederick Tower Hamilton
  ...in command of the torpedo school ship [[H.M.S. Defiance (Torpedo Training School)|''Defiance'']] at Devonport on 1 November, 1897.<ref>"Naval & Military Int Hamilton was appointed Captain of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] on 24 February, 1905, with the rank of {{Com2RN}} f
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• Herbert William Richmond
  ...when, at the age of ten, he had visited Portsmouth. He attended St Mark's School, near Windsor. ...y]], could not gain an appointment to [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']].<ref>Richmond diary entry for 5 January, 1893. Nat
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• William Henry May
  ...Pipon]].{{Gaz|27081|3186|19 May, 1899}} After this he went to the gunnery school ''Excellent'', which he commanded until January, 1901. He was then appoint ...o the sea-going fleet of a fighting flotilla, had brought into existence. Gunnery, under the impulse of [[Percy Moreton Scott, First Baronet|Percy Scott]], h
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• Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet
  ...[[Imperial Japanese Navy]]. Upon his return he spent a year on the cadet training ship {{UK-1Britannia}}, before serving as the junior member of a committee ...78|p. 249}} a hulk in Portsmouth harbour recently established as a torpedo school. For the next three years Wilson devoted his great talent and energy to th
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• Charles Arthur Robertson-Scott
  ...ieutRN}} with seniority of 31 August, 1901. In March 1905 he qualified as gunnery lieutenant.<ref>Scott Service Records. {{TNA|ADM 196/45/203.|D7603455}} f. ...''|'''[[Training and Staff Duties Division (Royal Navy)|Deputy Director of Training and Staff Duties]]'''<br>8 Feb, 1921<ref>Robertson-Scott Service Record. {
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• William Henry White
  ...r mathematics, physics, and chemistry; and in 1867 he passed out from this school, obtaining its highest honours. He and five others were at once appointed t ...mprovements in each class of vessel, embodying advances made in machinery, gunnery, and quality of materials. He designed the ''Barfleur'' and ''Centurion'',
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• George Astley Callaghan
  ...23 January, 1866, being appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|H.M.S. ''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth as a {{NavCadRN}}. He left ''Bri ...ed home and was borne on the books of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|''Excellent'']] from 16 May, 1874, to 23 April, 1875, while studying for a
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• Robert Keith Arbuthnot, Fourth Baronet
  ...''', col A, p. 14.</ref> He entered the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1877 and left on 24 July, 18 ...instructor who, after his retirement, kept a highly-successful preparatory school for the Navy. The instructor was impatient, did not suffer fools gladly, a
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• Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock
  ...May obtained a Third Class pass in Torpedo work and a Second Class pass in Gunnery work in August. ...llowed by service in {{UK-Volage}} in the [[Training Squadron (Royal Navy)|Training Squadron]].
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• Percy Moreton Scott, First Baronet
  [[File:Sir-Percy-Moreton-Scott-1st-Bt-Men-of-the-Day-No-893-Gunnery, NPG D45188.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Admiral Percy M. Scott, depicted as a Cap ...g up to the [[First World War]]. It is particularly in the field of naval gunnery, and the concurrent drive for accuracy, for which he is most-remembered.
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• Hugh Evan-Thomas
  ...gnal book and later served as Second-in-Command of the [[Portsmouth Signal School]]. ...[Royal Naval College, Dartmouth]] while the heirs to the throne were under training there. In 1912 he was promoted to Flag Rank and from 1913 to 1915 was Rear
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• Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot
  ...iam Craigie|Robert W. Craigie]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Cambridge (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Cambridge'']]'''<br>24 Aug, 1900<ref>"Naval & Military
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• Edmund Frederick Jeffreys
  ...Douglas|Archibald L. Douglas]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>9 Nov, 1895<ref>"Naval & Military
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• Cecil Nugent Reyne
  ...re Regiment (1834-1890) and Lucy Ann Moss. He entered [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|H.M.S. ''Britannia'']] in 1895. He first went to sea on the [[battle ...ambridge'']] for Junior Staff (G) duties on 8 May and instructed to take a gunnery course at the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich]]. The following year he wa
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• Patrick Macnamara
  ..., and entered the [[Royal Navy]] via the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] in January, 1901. He was awarded the King's Medal fo ...y Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] on 27 July, 1908, to qualify for gunnery duties, on the course beginning on 24 August.{{NLOct08|p. 312}}
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• Harold Martin Burrough
  Burrough was appointed to the {{UK-1Southampton|f=t}} as gunnery officer on 12 May, 1916. This fortuitous timing had him in her at the [[Ba Burrough served as First Lieutenant and Gunnery Officer of {{UK-Indomitable}} from 13 August, 1917 to 21 November, 1918.
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• Edward Oliver Brudenell Seymour Osborne
  Osborne was the Gunnery Officer of {{UK-Conqueror|f=p}} from 15 April, 1912&ndash;1915, and Executi ...s Cecil Royle|Guy C. C. Royle]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>28 Jul, 1932 &ndash; 15 Jul, 1933|
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• Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar
  Dewar was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] on 15 July, 1893. ...for [[Devonport Gunnery School]], and on 31 October he took command of the school.<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/45}}. f. 59.</ref> Rear-Admiral [[John de Mestre Hutch
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• Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley
  ...ick Ewart|Charles J. F. Ewart]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Cambridge (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Cambridge'']]'''<br>1 May, 1867{{NLJul69|p. 186}} &nda ...Corbett|John Corbett]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|Captain of Training Ship H.M.S. ''Britannia'']]'''<br>31 Aug, 1871<ref>Foley Service Record. {
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• Matthew Robert Best
  ...John Davies|Arthur J. Davies]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>15 Aug, 1924<ref>Best Service Reco
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• Lewis Anthony Beaumont
  ...'[[Training Squadron (Royal Navy)|Commodore Second Class in Command of the Training Squadron]]'''<br>1 Aug, 1891{{NMI|Thursday, 23 July, 1891. Issue '''33384' ...Lewis Pearson|Hugo L. Pearson]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>12 Jun, 1893<ref>"Naval & Military
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• Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford
  He was educated at Bayford School, where he was a schoolmate of Lord Rosebery and [[George Francis Hamilton|L He entered the [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a {{NavCadRN}} on 13 December, 1859.<ref>ADM 196/1
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• William Alison Dyke Acland, Second Baronet
  ...pointed as a Junior Staff Officer at ''Excellent'', before being appointed Gunnery Lieutenant of the ''Bellerophon'', flagship of Vice-Admiral [[George Grevil ...[H.M.S. Volage (1869)|''Volage'']] in the [[Training Squadron (Royal Navy)|Training Squadron]]. He afterwards commanded the first-class cruiser [[H.M.S. Edgar
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• Astley Cooper Key
  ...h of thirteen feet. Key was only the junior lieutenant, but his scientific training enabled him to take a prominent share in the work of getting her afloat, an ...de Hewlett|Richard S. Hewlett]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>30 Jun, 1863{{NLDec64|p. 185}}|Suc
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• Frederick Anstruther Herbert
  ...Foley|Fitzgerald A. C. Foley]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Cambridge (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Cambridge'']]'''<br>13 May, 1871{{NLJul73|p. 139}}|Suc ...as Brandreth|Thomas Brandreth]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>1 Jan, 1877{{NLDec78|p. 210}}|Succ
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• Regulations Regarding the Entry of Naval Cadets into the Royal Navy
  ...eds in pausing the required Examination, he will be at once appointed to a Training Ship at Portsmouth or Devonport, for a period of not less than three months VII. Quarterly Examinations will be held on board the Training Ship, when any Cadet, who may consider himself competent, may be examined i
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