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Alexander Duff (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff (20 February 1862 – 22 November 1933) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, China Station. Naval career Duff joined the Royal Navy as a Midshipman in 1875. He was promoted Commander in 1897, and served in command of the destroyer HMS Bat in home waters from January 1898 to January 1900. In March that year, he was posted to the HMS ''Excellent'' for senior officers' gunnery course at the gunnery school based there. Promoted Captain in 1902, and Rear-admiral in 1913. In 1905 he was appointed Naval Assistant to the Controller of the Navy. In 1909, he was given command of ''HMS Temeraire''. He was Director of the Mobilisation Division at the Admiralty from 1912 through the start of the war. He served in World War I as Rear-Admiral (Second-in-Command) of the 4th Battle Squadron from 1914 to 1916, taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, where he flew his flag in ''HMS Superb''. He was transferred to the Fourth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area includes all of the area of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire (except the area making up the City of Aberdeen), as well as part of Banffshire. The county boundaries are officially used for a few purposes, namely land registration and lieutenancy. Aberdeenshire Council is headquartered at Woodhill House, in Aberdeen, making it the only Scottish council whose headquarters are located outside its jurisdiction. Aberdeen itself forms a different council area (Aberdeen City). Aberdeenshire borders onto Angus and Perth and Kinross to the south, Highland and Moray to the west and Aberdeen City to the east. Traditionally, it has been economically dependent upon the primary sector (agriculture, fishing, and forestry) and rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Excellent (shore Establishment)
HMS ''Excellent'' is a Royal Navy " stone frigate" (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire. HMS ''Excellent'' is itself part of the Maritime Warfare School, with a headquarters at HMS ''Collingwood'', although a number of lodger units are resident within the site, the principal of which is the headquarters of Fleet Commander ( Navy Command Headquarters). History RN Gunnery School afloat In the 1829 a Commander George Smith advocated the establishment of a Naval School of Gunnery; accordingly, the following year, the third-rate HMS ''Excellent'' was converted into a training ship and moored just north of Portsmouth Dockyard, opposite Fareham Creek. Smith was given oversight and set up ''Excellent'' not only as a training establishment but also as a platform for experimental firing of new weapons (the creek was used as a firing range). In 1832 Smith was replaced in command by Captain Thomas Hastings, under whom the school grew both numerically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Leveson
Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson GCB (27 January 1868 – 26 June 1929) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. He was the Rear Admiral Commanding His Majesty's Australian Fleet from 9 January 1917 to 3 September 1918 and later Commander in Chief, China Station from 10 September 1922 to 22 April 1925.Dodd, Chapt. 8 (Part 2) Naval career Born on 27 January 1868 at Kensington, London, he attended a private school, and began his naval cadetship aboard the training ship HMS ''Britannia'' on 13 January 1881. He was rated midshipman on 15 January 1883 and sub-lieutenant on 17 January 1887 and promoted lieutenant on 27 July 1887. He was awarded the Beaufort Testimonial and Goodenough Medal in 1888 and qualified in gunnery in 1891. Serving as a Gunnery Lieutenant upon HMS ''Victoria'' in 1893, he survived the sinking of HMS ''Victoria'' on 22 June 1893 after she collided with HMS ''Camperdown'' near Tripoli, Lebanon during manoeuvres and quickly sank, taking 358 crew with her, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor
Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor, (born Jones; 29 March 1863 – 14 April 1946) was a British Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord. Early life and career Tudor was born in Stoke Damerel, Devon, the son of Harrington Rogers Jones, of Harwich, and Henrietta Augusta Tudor, of Cork, Ireland. He came first in order of merit out of 42 candidates who passed the examination for naval cadetships in 1875. Jones was promoted to the rank of lieutenant with seniority of 29 March 1884. On 26 December 1890, he adopted his mother's maiden name and changed his surname to Tudor. His brother Henry Morton Tudor Tudor was also a Royal Navy admiral. Tudor was promoted to the rank of commander on 31 December 1896. He was appointed an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance from the same date. He was appointed to on 10 May 1898. Tudor was appointed in command of in early 1902, and was in command of this ship when she took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convoys In World War I
The convoy—a group of merchantmen or troopships traveling together with a naval escort—was revived during World War I (1914–18), after having been discarded at the start of the Age of Steam. Although convoys were used by the Royal Navy in 1914 to escort troopships from the Dominions, and in 1915 by both it and the French Navy to cover their own troop movements for overseas service, they were not systematically employed by any belligerent navy until 1916. The Royal Navy was the major user and developer of the modern convoy system, and regular transoceanic convoying began in June 1917. They made heavy use of aircraft for escorts, especially in coastal waters, an obvious departure from the convoy practices of the Age of Sail. As historian Paul E. Fontenoy put it, " e convoy system defeated the German submarine campaign."Paul E. Fontenoy, "Convoy System", ''The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social and Military History'', Volume 1, Spencer C. Tucker, ed. (Santa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War. His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial. Jellicoe made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port, at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain, but the public was disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a more dramatic victory given that they outnumbered the enemy. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys, but was relieved at the end of 1917. He also served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the early 1920s. Early life Jellicoe was born on 5 December 1859 in Southampton, Hampshire. Jellicoe was the son of John Henry Jellicoe, a capta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Sea Lord
The First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS) is the military head of the Royal Navy and Naval Service of the United Kingdom. The First Sea Lord is usually the highest ranking and most senior admiral to serve in the British Armed Forces unless either the Chief or Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff are naval officers. Admiral Ben Key was appointed First Sea Lord in November 2021. Originally titled the "Senior Naval Lord to the Board of Admiralty" when the post was created in 1689, the office was re-styled "First Naval Lord" in 1771. The concept of a professional "First Naval Lord" was introduced in 1805, and the title of the office was changed to "First Sea Lord" on the appointment of Sir John Fisher in 1904. Since 1923, the First Sea Lord has been a member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee; he now sits on the Defence Council and the Admiralty Board. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Submarine Division (Royal Navy)
The Anti-Submarine Division its original name, was the former anti-submarine warfare, planning and prevention Directorate of the Admiralty Department from 1912-1963. History The division evolved out the earlier Anti-Submarine Committee set up in 1910, that coordinated the Admiralty's earliest anti-submarine warfare proposals sent for consideration by the Board of Admiralty. Further systematic assessments and experimentation would take place from 1911 until 1915 when the Board of Invention and Research was established. Efforts were made throughout the First World War to search for a system of countering submarine attacks. Offensive and defensive measures were assessed and sometimes implemented, with different degrees of achievement. However the losses caused by the U-boats in their campaign of unrestricted warfare did have a demoralising effect on national morale leaving the government with no other choice but to be prepared to consider almost every proposal to find, monitor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
The 1st Battle Squadron was a Squadron (naval), naval squadron of the British Royal Navy consisting of battleships. The 1st Battle Squadron was initially part of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet. After World War I the Grand Fleet was reverted to its original name, the Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom), Atlantic Fleet. The squadron changed composition often as ships were damaged, retired or transferred. History First World War As an element in the Grand Fleet, the Squadron participated in the Battle of Jutland. August 1914 On 5 August 1914, the squadron was constituted as follows: * HMS Marlborough (1912), HMS ''Marlborough'' * HMS Collingwood (1908), HMS ''Collingwood'' * HMS Colossus (1910), HMS ''Colossus'' * HMS Hercules (1910), HMS ''Hercules'' * HMS Neptune (1909), HMS ''Neptune'' * HMS St. Vincent (1908), HMS ''St. Vincent'' * HMS Superb (1907), HMS ''Superb'' * HMS Vanguard (1909), HMS ''Vanguard'' Battle of Jutland, June 1916 During the Battle of Jutland, the composition o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Superb
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Superb'', or HMS ''Superbe'': * was a 64-gun third rate, previously the . She was captured by in 1710 and was broken up in 1732 * was 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1736 and broken up in 1757 * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1760 and wrecked in 1783 * was a 22-gun sixth rate. She was previously a French ship, captured in 1795 by and used as a prison ship from 1796. She was sold in 1798. * was a 74-gun third rate, launched in 1798 and broken up in 1826 * was an 80-gun second rate, launched in 1842 and broken up in 1869 * HMS ''Superb'' was to have been a broadside ironclad battleship, but she was renamed in 1874 before being launched in 1875. She was sold in 1908. * was a battleship launched in 1875. She was built for the Turkish Navy, and was to have been named ''Hamidiyeh''. She was purchased by Britain in 1873 and was sold in 1906. * was launched in 1907, involved in the Occupation of Constantinople an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland (german: Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of the Skagerrak) was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during the First World War. The battle unfolded in extensive manoeuvring and three main engagements (the battlecruiser action, the fleet action and the night action), from 31 May to 1 June 1916, off the North Sea coast of Denmark's Jutland Peninsula. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. Jutland was the third fleet action between steel battleships, following the Battle of the Yellow Sea in 1904 and the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. Jutland was the last major battle in history fought primarily by battleships. Germany's High Seas Fleet intended to lure out, trap, and destroy a portion of the British Grand Fleet, as the German nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)
The 4th Battle Squadron was a squadron of the British Royal Navy consisting of battleships. The 4th Battle Squadron was initially part of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet (1912–14) and then the Grand Fleet after the outbreak of the First World War. The squadron changed composition often as ships were damaged, retired or transferred. August 1914 On 5 August 1914, the squadron was constituted as follows: Dittmar & Colledge * * * * January 1915 By January 1915, the composition had changed slightly: * HMS ''Agincourt'' * HMS ''Bellerophon'' * HMS ''Dreadnought'' * HMS ''Temeraire'' * * * Battle of Jutland, June 1916 As an element in the Grand Fleet, the squadron participated in the Battle of Jutland. During the battle, the composition of the 4th Battle Squadron was as follows: *Third Division * , fleet flagship of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe; Captain Frederic Dreyer; * , Captain C. Maclachlan; * , flagship of Rear Admiral A. L. Duff; Captain E. Hyde-Parker; * , Captai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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