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Robert Prendergast
Admiral Sir Robert John Prendergast Order of the Bath, KCB (9 July 1864–14 May 1946) was a Royal Navy officer. Career The son of a Surgeon-General (United Kingdom), Surgeon-General occupying Ardfinnan Castle in Ireland, Prendergast entered the Royal Navy as a officer cadet, Cadet in 1877. He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 as a Midshipman aboard the broadside ironclad HMS Achilles (1863), HMS ''Achilles''. In 1885 he transferred to the gunboat HMS Grappler (1880), HMS ''Grappler'' at Gibraltar. He was promoted Lieutenant in June 1887 and joined the corvette HMS Volage (1869), HMS ''Volage'' in the Training Squadron in 1888. In 1889 he went to HMS Queen Charlotte (1810), HMS ''Excellent'' to train as a gunnery officer and was then posted to the battleship HMS Collingwood (1882), HMS ''Collingwood'' and then to the frigate HMS Raleigh (1873), HMS ''Raleigh'', flagship of the Training Squadron. In 1899 he was promoted Commander and posted to HMS Northampton (1876), HM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Dodd (artist)
Francis Edgar Dodd (29 November 1874 – 7 March 1949) was a British portrait painter, landscape artist and printmaker. Biography Dodd was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister. He trained at the Glasgow School of Art alongside Muirhead Bone, who married Dodd's sister, Gertrude. At Glasgow, Dodd won the Haldane Scholarship in 1893 and then travelled around France, Italy and later Spain. Dodd returned to England in 1895 and settled in Manchester, becoming friends with Charles Holden, before moving to Blackheath in London in 1904. During World War I, in 1916, he was appointed an official war artist by Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau, WPB. Serving on the Western Front, he produced more than 30 portraits of senior military figures. However, he also earned a considerable peacetime reputation for the quality of his watercolours and portrait commissions. He was appointed a trustee of the Tate Gallery in 1929, a position he held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officer Cadet
Officer Cadet is a rank held by military cadets during their training to become commissioned officers. In the United Kingdom, the rank is also used by members of University Royal Naval Units, University Officer Training Corps and University Air Squadron; however, these are not trainee officers with many not choosing a career in the armed forces. The term officer trainee is used interchangeably in some countries. Australia The Australian Defence Force follows the same usage as the British military system, using the rank of officer cadet (for the Australian Army (OCDT) and the Royal Australian Air Force (OFFCDT)), for personnel undergoing initial officer training. Unlike midshipmen in the Royal Australian Navy who hold a commission, officer cadets in the Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force do not yet hold a permanent commission, and are not saluted or referred to as "sir" or "ma'am". They do however hold probationary commissions. Officer cadets in the Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Collingwood (1882)
HMS ''Collingwood'' was the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s. The ship's essential design became the standard for most of the following British battleships. Completed in 1887, she spent the next two years in reserve before she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet for the next eight years. After returning home in 1897, the ship spent the next six years as a guardship in Ireland. ''Collingwood'' was not significantly damaged during an accidental collision in 1899 and was paid off four years later. The ship was sold for scrap in 1909 and subsequently broken up. Background and design At the time of her design, she was not considered as being the forerunner of any class; she was designed by the Director of Naval Construction, Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, as a one-off as an answer to the French s, which carried three heavy guns on the centreline and a number of smaller pieces on the broadside. He made several proposals to the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship,Stoll, J. ''Steaming in the Dark?'', Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 36 No. 2, June 1992. now referred to by historians as pre-dreadnought battleships. In 1906, the commissioning of into the United Kingdom's Royal Navy heralded a revolution in the field of battleship design. Subsequent battleship designs, influenced by HMS ''Dreadnought'', were referred to as "dreadnoughts", though the term eventually became obsolete as dreadnoughts became the only type of battleship in common use. Battleships were a symbol of naval dominance and national might, and for decades the battleship was a major factor in both diplomacy and military strategy.Sondhaus, L. ''Naval Warfare 1815–1914'', . A global arms race in battleship cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)
HMS ''Queen Charlotte'' was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford. She replaced the first sunk in 1800. Career A Black sailor from Grenada named William Brown was discharged from ''Queen Charlotte'' in 1815 for being a woman. She was Lord Exmouth's flagship during the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816. On 17 September 1817, ''Linnet'', a tender to ''Queen Charlotte'', seized a smuggled cargo of tobacco. The officers and crew of ''Queen Charlotte'' shared in the prize money. On 17 December 1823, ''Queen Charlotte'' was driven into the British ship ''Brothers'' at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. ''Brothers'' suffered severe damage in the collision. Fate ''Queen Charlotte'' was converted to serve as a training ship A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for traini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Volage (1869)
HMS ''Volage'' was a built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. She spent most of her first commission assigned to the Flying Squadron circumnavigating the world and later carried a party of astronomers to the Kerguelen Islands to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. The ship was then assigned as the senior officer's ship in South American waters until she was transferred to the Training Squadron during the 1880s. ''Volage'' was paid off in 1899 and sold for scrap in 1904. Description ''Volage'' was long between perpendiculars and had a beam of . Forward the ship had a draught of , but aft she drew . ''Volage'' displaced and had a burthen of 2,322 tons. Her iron hull was covered by a layer of oak that was sheathed with copper from the waterline down to prevent biofouling.Lyon & Winfield, p. 265 Watertight transverse bulkheads subdivided the hull. Her crew consisted of 340 officers and ratings. The ship was nicknamed ''Vollidge'' by her crew. The ship had one 2-cylinder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
