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Admiral Edward Francis Bruen, CB (7 November 1866 – 22 November 1952) was a Royal Navy officer.{{Cite web, title=Edward Francis Bruen, url=http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Edward_Francis_Bruen, website=The Dreadnought Project Admiral Bruen was the son of the Irish Conservative politician Henry Bruen. He entered HMS ''Britannia'' as a cadet in 1880. Bruen commanded the battleship HMS ''Bellerophon'' from 1913 to 1916, in which he took part in the
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 John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy ...
in 1916. Later that year, he took command of the new battleship HMS ''Resolution''. He was Director of Naval Equipment from 1920 to 1922.


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1866 births 1952 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Royal Navy admirals Royal Navy admirals of World War I