Bertram Sutton Evans

Captain Bertram Sutton Evans, M.V.O., Royal Navy (17 December, 1872 – 2 March, 1919) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Evans was a noted cricket-player, batting right-handed.

He entered Britannia in January, 1886 after placing ninth in order of merit of the forty candidates for naval cadetship that were accepted for acceptance following a round of examinations in late November, 1885.

Evans was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in June, 1894.

Evans was promoted to the rank of Commander in June, 1905.

On 1 January, 1910, Evans was appointed in command of the third class protected cruiser Pandora at the Cape of Good Hope Station. In early 1912, he was severely chastised after a bad gunlayer's test in the ship manifested a "want of supervision of training & organisation for war disclosed in report." Evans was to return to England in the White Star liner Themistocles, due to arrive on 17 March, 1912. He sent a letter of explanation in February which, in the eyes of the Admiralty "did not fully exonerate him." He was appointed in command of Minerva of Third Fleet, on 11 July, but was superseded at the turn of August and joined a War Course which ran into late December, 1912.

On 2 May, 1913, Evans was appointed in command of the first class protected cruiser Europa and Evans was promoted to the rank of Captain in June, 1913. On 5 August, 1913, he was superseded. On 17 October, 1913, Their Lordships allotted him Their severe displeasure for the "unsatisfactory manner in which he performed executive duties in Europa." He was placed on Half Pay for a period of 12 months in consequence, at which point his case would again be considered.

Great War

Evans served as captain of the battleship Implacable from March to July, 1917.

He served as captain of Leviathan from April 1918, suffering a mutiny of sorts at Birkenhead on 6 October, when large number of the crew disembarked without orders. He was relieved of duty in the ship in December, having been considered to blame in the October incident.

He was appointed in command of the first class protected cruiser Europa on 13 January, 1919, but the appointment was cancelled at some point, possibly after Evans began an overland trip to Mudros to take command, as he died at the station hospital in Paris of influenza on 2 March.

See Also

• Wikipedia
• Court of Enquiry into mutiny

Naval Appointments
Preceded by Henry Strickland	Captain of H.M. T.B. 66 18 Jul, 1894	Succeeded by Henry W. Parker
Preceded by ?	Captain of H.M.S. Star 6 Jan, 1900 – 1 Mar, 1902[Inference]	Succeeded by John A. Ingles
Preceded by Alexander P. Davidson	Captain of H.M.S. Pandora 1 Jan, 1910 – early 1912	Succeeded by Henry C. R. Brocklebank
Preceded by Duncan T. Brown	Captain of H.M.S. Minerva 11 Jul, 1912 – 1 Aug, 1912	Succeeded by Mortimer L'E. Silver
Preceded by Henry Luxmoore	Captain of H.M.S. Europa 2 May, 1913 – 5 Aug, 1913	Succeeded by Thomas D. Pratt
Preceded by New Command	Captain of H.M.S. Macedonia 1 Aug, 1914	Succeeded by Forster D. Arnold-Forster
Preceded by Hughes C. Lockyer	Captain of H.M.S. Implacable 14 Mar, 1917	Succeeded by Charles L. Brendon
Preceded by Francis M. Austin	Captain of H.M.S. Leviathan 8 May, 1918 – 5 Dec, 1918	Succeeded by Frank Powell
Preceded by Claude A. Rombulow-Pearse	Captain of Base, Mudros 13 Jan, 1919	Succeeded by Michael H. Wilding