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  • ==Principal Naval Transport Officers== ===Fleet Gunnery Officer===
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  • ...as to live in. From it one had to walk half the length of the ship to the officers' bathroom. My second was forward, all mixed up with the chain cables and a ..." on the centre line and "P" to port and "Q" to starboard.<ref>''Manual of Gunnery in H.M. Fleet (Volume I), 1907'', p. 1.</ref>
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  • ...urn to starboard in succession was signalled to take the squadron onto the gunnery range, and ''Audacious'' struck a mine, which exploded under the port engin ...he tugs anticipated from Belfast.<br><br>I personally with the Torpedo and Gunnery Lieutenants [note: these were actually Lt. Cdrs. [[Robert Stedman MacFarlan
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  • ...1911.<ref name=thetimes1911/> A few weeks later on 12 December, eighteen officers and men were injured when an explosion occurred onboard while ''Orion'' was ...Francis Chichester Patterson|Julian F. C. Patterson]] served as the ship's gunnery officer from 1914 through 1917.
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  • ...he completed on 24 January, 1908. From 27 January to 21 February he took Gunnery and Torpedo Courses, also at Portsmouth. He remained on Half-Pay until 25 [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at North Grove House School]]
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  • ...n [[Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper|Reginald Tupper]] of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']], who conducted the gun trials, late ...own electrical experts and commercial firms, and the apparently successful gunnery of the new American battleships that had been fitted with electrically mani
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  • ...s the '''War Course College''', was an institution of higher education for officers of the [[Royal Navy]] established in 1900. It was commanded by a junior fl ...the Council) to consider the question of the Course of Study of the Senior Officers at the Royal Naval College, and to offer such suggestions as may be deemed
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  • [[File:HMS Magnificent officers c1905.jpg|thumb|right|600px|Officers Portrait c. 1905. From photo album of [[George Napier Tomlin]]]] The ship's 6-in gunnery trials were conducted on 5 October, and her 12-in on 18 October, 1895 off S
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  • In 1910, ''Mars'' was the best gunnery ship of the 27 tested in the [[Home Fleet]]'s Third Division (and cruisers) In 1934, her bell was offered for sale to naval officers and others who might be interested, at the price of £10. Interested parti
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  • ''Formidable'' carried out her gunnery trials on 12 June, 1901 under the oversight of Captain [[Arthur Barrow]] of Gunnery Lieutenant [[Arthur Pringle]] and two sailors died on 28 April 1902 when a
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  • [[File:Implacable Officers, 1901.png|500px|thumb|right|Officers of H.M.S. ''Implacable'', 1901.<br><small>Image: ''Navy & Army Illustrated' ...urpose between spotters ashore and men on the ship. A visit ashore by the gunnery officer helped improve this.
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  • ...lusion that blame is attributable to the dead Officers responsible for the Gunnery Department of the ship for allowing cordite charges not in cases and uncove
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  • Her gunnery officer at the Battle was {{LCommRN}} [[Arthur Douglas Wales Smith]], who h ...dicates a longer tenure than suggested by the service records of two other officers.
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  • Of the ship's chief commissioning officers, the first to be appointed was the Gunnery Officer, Lieutenant-Commander [[Evan Bruce-Gardyne]], on 13 March, 1914. T Lieutenant-Commander [[Patrick Macnamara]] succeeded Bruce-Gardyne as Gunnery Officer on 9 March, 1915.{{NLOct15|p. 398''q''}} Vice-Admiral [[Frederick
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  • ...ost-war American intelligence report based on interviews with the ordnance officers of ''Lutzow'' and ''Derfflinger''. The [[O.N.I.]] considered the informat ===Gunnery Control===
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  • ...gun aboard the ironclad {{UK-1Thunderer}} exploded in January 1879 during gunnery practice, Heneage dispatched a medical party to that ship, then ordered ''A ...under full sail to a running moor in Vigo harbour in half a gale of wind." Officers of the Spanish Navy who witnessed the sight are said to have "never stopped
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  • ===Gunnery Control=== ...ng]]s positioned at each gun, with six Navyphones being provided for group officers.
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  • ...fficers. The War Staff is to be the means of preparing and training those officers who arrive, or are likely to arrive, by the excellence of their sea service ...henever convenient consult the Directors of the various Divisions or other officers if necessary. This direction is essential to prevent that group of evils wh
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  • ...e'' and ''Diamond'', out of a complement of 780 men ''Formidable'' lost 35 officers and 512 men dead, including Captain [[Arthur Noel Loxley|Arthur N. Loxley]] ...United States as the guest of the Queenstown Association, a club formed by officers who had served under him from 1915 to 1918, and of which he was vice-presid
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  • ...r was later to claim, and Andrew Gordon to repeat, that the average age of officers promoted Captain at the time was forty-two.<ref>Chalmers. p. xxi. Gordon. ...nd Wemyss had supposedly "found the ship plunged in the deepest gloom, the officers discontented, the men unwilling."<ref>Wester Wemyss. ''Life and Letters''.
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