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...''Simon Harley''' and I am a thirty-eight year old researcher of the Royal Navy in the [[Dreadnought Era]]. ...a up to the Treaty of Versailles. By providing a background to these Flag Officers' services from 1854 to 1914, their actions in the Great War will be put int

|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career> ...hip of her class of battleships, was the first ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named, by act of Congress, in honor of the famous American Civil Wa

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...vy (28 September, 1857 &ndash; 16 May, 1938) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...a great-great-nephew of Admiral Sir Richard Keats. He entered the [[Royal Navy]] as a Navigating Cadet on 15 July, 1870, and was appointed to the {{UK-1Br

...Retired (26 February, 1872 &ndash; 26 October, 1949) was a British [[Royal Navy]] officer and courtier. ...ich date he was appointed in command of {{UK-Powerful}}, as [[Flag Captain|Flag Captain]] to [[Wilmot Hawkesworth Fawkes|Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes]], Commander-

...18 October, 1924) was a forceful and creative naval officer of the [[Royal Navy]] in the period leading up to the [[First World War]]. It is particularly ...his wife, Laura Kezia Snelling. He obtained a nomination for the [[Royal Navy]] and went to study at [[Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]], Southsea. He ent

...yal Navy (15 May, 1858 &ndash; 5 June, 1929) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. ...in French.<ref>Luard Committee. p. 31. Q. 806-807.</ref> He entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet in the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''

...h; 3 March, 1895) was an influential officer in the late-Victorian [[Royal Navy]]. ...Hornby, was born at Winwick in Lancashire on 20 Feb. 1825. He entered the navy in March 1837 on board the ''Princess Charlotte'', then fitting out as the

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...r John Fisher]], descended into a bitter feud which threatened to tear the navy in half in the early years of the Twentieth Century. ...a, India, and the Falkland Islands. On 1 November, 1872, he was appointed Flag Lieutenant to Sir Henry Keppel, [[Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth]].

...re of Convoys, liason officer with the British Army, Inspector of Merchant Navy Gunnery and finally as Chief of Air Services at the Admiralty. ...eyer had come thirty-third, with 1,199 marks.<ref>"Cadetships in the Royal Navy" (News). ''The Times''. Thursday, 2 July, 1891. Issue '''33366''', col C

...Navy (4 January, 1832 &ndash; 22 June, 1893) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] in the Nelsonian vein, who advocated that the service adopt a more flexib ...at the age of sixteen Tryon informed his father of his desire to join the navy.<ref>FitzGerald. pp. 11-13.</ref> His father obtained Tryon a nomination

...the MS. by Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, G.B.E., K.C.B., Jellicoe's Flag Captain at Jutland, 29 Apr. 1939. According to the preface (p. vii) to the 1. ff. 1-76b. ''Admiralty Committee on the use of Oil Fuel in the Navy: Vol. I, Departmental and other Reports and Minutes of Evidence . . . and I

...be more endangered than by extinguishing this sentiment of devotion in the Navy. ...ives from the Commander-in-Chief. The men of the highest reputation in the Navy have held, and their opinion is obviously just, that the especial duty of t

...uch a fast (and therefore, he felt, hard to hit) ship might give the Royal Navy a type which could lasso enemy cruisers on the high seas and assertively sc :<small>See also the essay "[[The Battle Cruiser in the Royal Navy]]"</small>

Check ''Navy Lists'' for Seconds-in-Command, Mediterranean and Channel; Captains of Roya ...hType=6&CATREF=ADM+203/64 ADM 203/64. Introduction of a course for senior officers.] The National Archives.

....M.S. "Orlando "; 25 marines, Wei-hai-wei detachment; making a total of 79 officers and men at Peking, and 104 seamen and marines at Tientsin. ...ich I acquiesced, and at 4 p.m. the same day our first meeting took place, officers of seven nations besides our own being present. The proceedings were marke

The [[United States Navy]] and [[Royal Navy]] maintained an intensive and unusual gunboat presence on the '''Yangtse Ri ==U.S. Navy Presence & Experience==

| TNA||ADM 1/8328 || Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty. || || 1911-1912||0||SH | TNA||ADM 1/8488/103 || Appointment of Escort Flag Officers. Provision of Escort ships and Breech loading guns for special Merchant ves