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Edmund Poë
Admiral Sir Edmund Samuel Poë (11 September 1849 – 1 April 1921) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies station. Naval career Educated at the Burney's Royal Naval Academy, Gosport, Poë joined the Royal Navy in 1862.Medals . He was made Naval Advisor to the Inspector-General of Fortifications in 1889 and Commander of the Training Squadron in 1897. Promoted to Commodore 2nd Class by 1899 he commanded the |
County Tipperary
County Tipperary ( ga, Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is Ireland's largest inland county and shares a border with 8 counties, more than any other. The population of the county was 159,553 at the 2016 census. The largest towns are Clonmel, Nenagh and Thurles. Tipperary County Council is the local authority for the county. In 1838, County Tipperary was divided into two ridings, North and South. From 1899 until 2014, they had their own county councils. They were unified under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, which came into effect following the 2014 local elections on 3 June 2014. Geography Tipperary is the sixth-largest of the 32 counties by area and the 12th largest by population. It is the third-largest of Munster's 6 counties by both size and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediterranean Fleet
The British Mediterranean Fleet, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was a formation of the Royal Navy. The Fleet was one of the most prestigious commands in the navy for the majority of its history, defending the vital sea link between the United Kingdom and the majority of the British Empire in the Eastern Hemisphere. The first Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet was the appointment of General at Sea Robert Blake in September 1654 (styled as Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet). The Fleet was in existence until 1967. Pre-Second World War The Royal Navy gained a foothold in the Mediterranean Sea when Gibraltar was captured by the British in 1704 during the War of Spanish Succession, and formally allocated to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. Though the British had maintained a naval presence in the Mediterranean before, the capture of Gibraltar allowed the British to establish their first naval base there. The British also used Port Mahon, on the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy Admirals
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1921 Deaths
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1849 Births
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George Callaghan
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Astley Callaghan (21 December 1852 – 23 November 1920) was an officer in the Royal Navy. During the Boxer Rebellion he served as commander of a naval brigade sent ashore to form an element of a larger expedition under Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Gaselee: the expedition entered Peking and rescued the legations which had been held hostage there. He came to prominence again when, as Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet, he assisted with the provision of aid to survivors of the Messina earthquake, which had caused the loss of circa 123,000 lives. Callaghan became Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet in November 1911 and was advised in December 1913 that his tenure would be extended for another twelve months. With increasing international tension he started preparing his fleet for war. At the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914, Callaghan set sail in his flagship for his war station at Scapa Flow. There he met his successor-desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Beaumont
Admiral Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont, (19 May 1847 – 20 June 1922) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. Naval career Beaumont joined the Royal Navy as a boy in 1860 and was engaged in operations in Malaya by 1875. Between 1875 and 1876 he took part as senior lieutenant in the British Arctic Expedition led by George Nares on HMS Discovery, an attempt to reach the North Pole and to explore the NW coast of Greenland. Beaumont led a dogsled party that reached Sherard Osborn Fjord in May 1876 and left a cairn at Repulse Harbour. He was given command of HMS ''Excellent'' in 1893, before becoming Director of Naval Intelligence in 1895. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station in 1899 and Commander-in-Chief, Australia Station in 1900. During his time in Australia, he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Berkeley Milne
Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, 2nd Baronet, (2 June 1855 – 4 July 1938) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet at the outbreak of the First World War. Naval career Milne was the son of distinguished admiral Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, and grandson of Vice-Admiral Sir David Milne. In 1879 he became aide-de-camp to Lord Chelmsford during the Zulu Wars, being fortunate enough to have been separated from the main army at the time of the massacre of British forces at the Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879. In 1891 with the rank of captain he accepted command of HMY ''Osborne'', despite the normal rank for the officer in charge of such a ship being only 'commander'. While some officers only accepted short postings to royal yachts, fearing the effect on their careers of sinecure postings, Milne regarded it as a career path to flag rank. After a regular command of the cruiser ''Venus'', which served on the Mediterranean Station, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assheton Curzon-Howe
Admiral The Honourable Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe, (10 August 1850 – 1 March 1911) was a British naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910. Early life Curzon-Howe was the thirteenth and youngest child of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and Anne (d. 1877), who was Lord Howe's second wife (Assheton was the youngest of her three children), daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore. His paternal great-grandfather was Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe. Career In 1894 Curzon-Howe flew his flag as Commodore on the corvette on the North America and West Indies Station. By January 1900 he had been promoted captain, and was appointed in command of the battleship when she was commissioned 20 February 1900 for service on the Mediterranean Station. She transferred to the China Station in January 1901, in response to the Boxer Rebellion. Curzon-Howe was appointed a Naval Aide de Camp (ADC) to Queen Victoria in July 1899, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Egerton (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton (17 October 1852 – 30 March 1940) was a senior Royal Navy officer from the Egerton family who rose to become Second Sea Lord. Naval career Egerton joined the Royal Navy in 1866.Sir George Le Clerc Egerton Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He served on the Arctic Expedition of 1875–76. In 1893 he was promoted to and appointed a before serving with the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Durnford
Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral Sir John Durnford (6 February 1849 – 13 June 1914) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Cape of Good Hope Station, Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station. Naval career Educated at Eton College and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Durnford joined the Royal Navy in 1862 served in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885 to 1886 for which he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order, DSO. Promoted to Captain (naval), Captain in 1888, he commanded the torpedo school HMS Vernon (shore establishment), HMS ''Vernon'' from 1895 to 1899. In October 1899 he was appointed in command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Jupiter (1895), HMS ''Jupiter'', serving in the Channel Fleet, and in December the following year he was appointed to ''Algiers'' for the Medway steam reserve. Durnford became Fourth Sea Lord, Junior Naval Lord in February 1901 and was promoted to Rear admiral (Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet
Vice-Admiral Sir George John Scott Warrender of Lochend, 7th Baronet, (31 July 1860 – 8 January 1917) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy during the First World War. Early career Warrender was the son of Sir George Warrender, 6th Baronet (1825–1901) and Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell, born at Bruntsfield House, Edinburgh, one of six children. Warrender joined the navy as a cadet in 1873 at Dartmouth. He qualified as a French interpreter in 1878. He served in the Zulu War in 1879 as midshipman on the corvette HMS ''Boadicea''. As a member of the naval brigade he was part of the force send to relieve Eshowe and was present at the Battle of Gingindlovu, so receiving the South Africa medal. In 1880 he was promoted to Lieutenant, specialising in gunnery. He was a staff officer at HMS ''Excellent'' between 1884 and 1885, the second lieutenant on the cruiser ''Amphion'' from 11 December 1888 serving on the Pacific Station, It listed her commissioned and warrant officers as fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
