Frederick Owen Pike

Vice-Admiral Frederick Owen Pike, C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Navy, Retired (23 February, 1851 – 5 April, 1921) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Pike was ranked fourteenth in order of merit of thirty-six candidates accepted as first-class Naval Cadets following the entrance examinations of December, 1864.

Pike was appointed to Vigilant on 1 September, 1874.

Pike was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 2 July, 1875.

Pike narrowly escaped a bad mark on his record when he was honourably acquitted in a Court Martial in December 1876 following reports that he had signed certificates of some kind in Vigilant in May without first examining them.

On 26 August, 1884 Pike was appointed in command of the schooner Harrier. He remained with her through a paying off and recommissioning in January, 1885 and only left her when she paid off on 11 April, 1888. He took passage home in the Thalia.

On 10 September 1888, Pike was appointed Lieutenant and Commander of the composite screw gunvessel Rifleman. She operated on the Southeastern Coast of America until paying off on 1 July, 1889, and Pike was promoted to the rank of Commander with a seniority date of 30 June, 1889.

Pike married Annie E. M. Pohlman on 27 December, 1893 at Melbourne.

Pike was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December 1895.

In September 1898, he assumed command of the second class protected cruiser Minerva.

Pike became Captain of the second class protected cruiser Gladiator in October 1900.

Pike was superseded as Captain-in-Charge of the North of Ireland Coast Guard District and retired due to age on 23 February, 1906. He was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on the Retired List on 18 September, 1906 and to Vice-Admiral on 10 February, 1911.

See Also

Naval Appointments
Preceded by Thomas P. W. Nesham	Captain of H.M.S. Tauranga 6 Mar, 1892 – 2 Jun, 1892	Succeeded by Henry B. Lang
Preceded by Arthur C. Clarke	Captain of H.M.S. Magicienne 15 Jun, 1897 – 15 Sep, 1897	Succeeded by Philip F. Tillard
Preceded by Charles H. Cross	Captain of H.M.S. Champion 25 Sep, 1898 – 31 Oct, 1899	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Henry C. A. Baynes	Captain of H.M.S. Minerva 31 Oct, 1899 – 2 Oct, 1900	Succeeded by Charles H. Cochran
Preceded by Harry C. Reynolds	Captain of H.M.S. Gladiator 2 Oct, 1900 – 22 Sep, 1902	Succeeded by Thomas B. S. Adair
Preceded by Vernon A. Tisdall	Captain of H.M.S. Theseus 25 Jan, 1902 – 7 Mar, 1902	Succeeded by Charles H. Robertson
Preceded by Frederic E. E. Brock	Captain of H.M.S. Camperdown 7 Nov, 1902 – 5 May, 1903	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Herbert W. Savory	Captain of H.M.S. Hawke 6 May, 1903 – 21 May, 1903	Succeeded by Sir George J. S. Warrender, Bart.
Preceded by New Command	Captain-in-Charge of the North of Ireland Coast Guard District 21 May, 1903 – 23 Feb, 1906	Succeeded by Frederick St. G. Rich as Rear-Admiral-in-Charge of the North of Ireland Coast Guard District