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Fourth Sea Lord
The Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies originally known as the Fourth Naval Lord was formerly one of the Naval Lords and members of the Board of Admiralty which controlled the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom the post is currently known as Chief of Materiel (Fleet). As of 2017, it is also known as Chief of Fleet Support, Chief of Materiel (Ships) then as of 2020, Director General Ships. History The origin of this appointment dates back to 1830 when the post of Fourth Naval Lord was created until 1868 when it was re-styled Junior Naval Lord; this title remained until 1904 when it was again re-styled Fourth Sea Lord until 1964 when the Admiralty Department abolished this post. The modern equivalent is titled the "Naval Member for Logistics", who is responsible for the logistical support and the supply chain of the navy. Its functions along with two other departments of state were merged within a new Ministry of Defence. Following the merger a new post of Chief of Fleet Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Pechell
Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel John Brooke Pechell, 3rd Baronet CB, KCH, FRS (1 September 1785 – 3 November 1849) was a prominent British Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century. Although he served in several celebrated naval actions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars his most important achievements were made while serving as a Lord of the Admiralty, pioneering the science and instruction of rapid and accurate gunnery in the Royal Navy through training facilities and manuals. In addition to his work at the Admiralty, Pechell served in the House of Commons for two constituencies and was on good terms with King William IV, who supported his efforts to improve standards of gunnery and returned him to the Admiralty in 1839 after a five-year absence caused by his support for the Whig government. In 1826 he inherited the Pechell Baronetcy from his father, but died childless and the title passed to his brother George. Life Pechell was born in Ireland in 1785, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tarleton (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir John Walter Tarleton, (8 November 1811 – 25 September 1880) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Naval Lord. Naval career Born the son of Thomas Tarleton of Bolesworth Castle and grandnephew of Sir Banastre Tarleton, Tarleton joined the Royal Navy in 1824.The Tarleton Family Published by Concord N. H., 1900 He played a key role in resolving a crisis in in 1851 when the master of a British ship was illegally detained in . He was given command of the |
Lord John Hay (Royal Navy Admiral Of The Fleet)
Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Hay, (23 August 1827 – 4 May 1916) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After seeing action in 1842 during the First Opium War, he went ashore with the Naval Brigade and took part in the defence of Eupatoria in November 1854 and the Siege of Sevastopol in spring 1855 during the Crimean War. He also took part in the Battle of Taku Forts in August 1860 during the Second Opium War. As a politician, he became Member of Parliament for Wick and later for Ripon. He was sent to the Mediterranean in July 1878 to take control of Cyprus and to occupy it in accordance with decisions reached at the Congress of Berlin. In a highly political appointment, he was made First Naval Lord in March 1886 when the Marquis of Ripon became First Lord of the Admiralty but had to stand down just five months later when William Gladstone's Liberal Government fell from power in August 1886. Early career Born in Geneva, Switzerland,Heathcote, p. 110 the fourth son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet
Admiral Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet, (11 February 1821 – 28 January 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. Early life Born in Edinburgh, Hay-Dalrymple was the only child of Sir James Dalrymple Hay, 2nd Baronet, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John Shaw Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet. His mother died in childbirth. His father remarried in 1823 and had a further eight children. He was educated at Rugby School, and succeeded to the baronetcy on 19 March 1861. Naval career Dalrymple-Hay entered the Royal Navy in 1834. During his naval career he was involved in the Sixth Xhosa War in South Africa and the Oriental Crisis in Syria, being present when Beirut and St Jean d'Acre fell. He was also concerned with successful operations against Chinese pirates in the 1840s. He commanded HMS ''Victory'' from 1854 and then commanded HMS ''Hannibal'' during the Crimean War and was decorated by the British and Turkish governments. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Frederick (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Charles Frederick (7 May 1797 – 23 December 1875) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord. Naval career Frederick joined the Royal Navy in 1810 and then served in the First Opium War in command of HMS ''Apollo''.Admiral Charles Frederick William Loney RN Promoted to Captain in 1842, he commanded HMS ''Amphitrite'' in the during the . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swynfen Carnegie
Admiral The Honourable Swynfen Thomas Carnegie MP KSF (8 March 1813 – 29 November 1879) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fourth Naval Lord. Early life Swynfen Thomas Carnegie was born the youngest son of Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk and his wife Mary on 8 March 1813.O'Byrne, ''Naval Biographical Dictionary'', p.169. Naval career Carnegie joined the Royal Navy on 3 August 1826 as a midshipman on board the frigate HMS ''Undaunted''. He later served in the same rank on the ship of the line HMS ''St Vincent'', flag ship of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Hotham, and the brig-sloop HMS ''Raleigh''. He was promoted to lieutenant on 21 April 1832 and was appointed on 9 November to serve on the frigate HMS ''Castor'', commanded by Commodore Lord John Hay, later moving with Hay to the post ship HMS ''North Star''. In these ships he participated in the First Carlist War and was rewarded by Spain with the Order of San Fernando. He was promoted to commander on 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robert Drummond
Admiral Sir James Robert Drummond (15 September 1812 – 7 October 1895) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded several ships in the Black Sea Fleet during the Crimean War and who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from 1874 to 1877 before going on to be Fourth Naval Lord. Naval career Born the second of the eight children of James Drummond, 8th Viscount Strathallan and Lady Amelia Sophia Drummond (née Murray), Drummond joined the Royal Navy on 2 February 1826. He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 December 1832, and to commander on 9 June 1838. As a commander he took command of the 18-gun sailing sloop in the Mediterranean in 1841. Promoted to captain in 1846, in 1852 he took charge of the 1st-Class wooden paddle-frigate , which had 10-guns and also served in the Mediterranean. Under his command the ''Retribution'', which was listed as having 28 guns, participated in the first bombardment of Sevastopol on 17 October 1854 during the Crimean War. During the bombardment, ''Retributi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Thomas Pelham
Rear Admiral Frederick Thomas Pelham, (2 August 1808 – 21 June 1861) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Naval Lord. Career He was the son of Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester, and Lady Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne (1776–1862),Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Volume 2, page 2103 and entered the navy on 27 June 1823. Active Service He first served as a midshipman on HMS ''Sybille'' in the Mediterranean (including an attack on Greek pirates), was promoted to lieutenant in 1830, before serving with HMS ''Ferret'', until being promoted to commander on 21 September 1835. He then served at that rank on off Spain's north coast during the Carlist War before receiving his first command, , in the same theatre in 1837 and 1838, being awarded the cross of San Fernando for his services. He rose to captain on 3 July 1840 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Duncombe (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Arthur Duncombe (24 March 1806 – 6 February 1889) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician. Background Duncombe was a younger son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, and his wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. Career Duncombe served in the Royal Navy and achieved the rank of admiral. Apart from his naval career he also sat as Member of Parliament for East Retford between 1830 and 1831 and 1835 and 1852 and the East Riding of Yorkshire between 1852 and 1868. He served in the short-lived 1852 Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby as a Fourth Naval Lord. Duncombe lived at Kilnwick Percy Hall at Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was selected as High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1874–75. Family He married firstly Delia, daughter of John Wilmer Field, in 1836. Their eldest son, Charles Wilmer Duncombe, was a Major-General in the Army; their second son Arthur Duncombe was also a politician; w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, (10 November 1806 – 29 December 1896) was a Royal Navy officer. As a captain on the North America and West Indies Station he was employed capturing slave-traders and carrying out fishery protection duties. He served as a Junior Naval Lord under both Liberal and Conservative administrations and was put in charge of organising British and French transports during the Crimean War. He became North America and West Indies Station, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station and in this role he acted with diplomacy, especially in response to the Trent Affair, ''Trent'' Affair on 8 November 1861 during the American Civil War, when , commanded by Union (American Civil War), Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British packet trade, mail packet and removed, as contraband of war, two Confederate States of America, Confederate diplomats, James Murray Mason, James Mason and John Slidell. He became First Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord John Hay (politician)
Rear Admiral Lord John Hay, (1 April 1793 – 9 September 1851) was a British naval officer and Whig politician. Naval career The third son of George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale, Hay entered the Navy in December 1804, appearing on the books of HMS ''Monarch''. However, this was probably a nominal enrollment to increase his seniority. Hay's first real service was probably aboard HMS ''Seahorse'', beginning in December 1806. He saw considerable action aboard ''Seahorse'' (42) on the Mediterranean station, under Captain John Stewart, losing his left arm on a cutting-out expedition in Hyères Bay in 1807. Hay was present during the ''Seahorses epic fight, on 5 July 1808, with the ''Badere Zaffer'' (52) and ''Alis Fezan'' (24), which ended with the capture of the ''Badere Zaffer'' and the sinking of the ''Alis Fezan''. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 May 1812, and was appointed to HMS ''Pique'', going to the West Indies station, on 1 June. He transferred to HMS ''Venerable'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
