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...nces. Nothing could ever rattle him or upset his equanimity, and both his physical and his moral courage were infinitely great. He was very strong, very acti ...quest on 19 August, 1917, "in order to facilitate the promotion of younger officers."{{Gaz|30248|8703|24 August, 1917}}

...mber went to the gunnery school at Portsmouth, [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']], where he obtained a Second Class with 515 m ...s excellent judgement and has managed his ship well on all occasions. V.G. physical qualities. He is an officer well qualified for high command." On 4 March, 1

...m a long line of Anglo-Irish families. He entered the [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a naval cadet on 15 January, 1875<ref name=Record8 ...specialize in torpedo and spent two years in the [[H.M.S. Vernon (Torpedo Training School)|''Vernon'']] torpedo school with an additional six months as staff

...L. Ottley]], could not gain an appointment to [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']].<ref>Richmond diary entry for 5 January, 189 ...]], who described him as "quite one of our very best and most accomplished officers."<ref>Quoted in Marder. ''Dreadnought to Scapa Flow''. '''I'''. p. 408.<

...r Cay entered the Navy in July 1882. He generally impressed his superiour officers as his career developed, and must have been an attractive and likeable man, ...under the Ruby's counter in considerable danger & by his zeal, example, & physical strength in shoving her out, prevented a loss of cutter, anchor, & probably

...ounded royal school of naval architecture at South Kensington to undergo a training in naval architecture, higher mathematics, physics, and chemistry; and in 1 ...This design also was very adversely criticised by Reed, and by many naval officers, and others. The defence was again left largely to White; the Admiralty eve

...''', col A, p. 14.</ref> He entered the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1877 and left on 24 July, 18 Arbuthnot was appointed to [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] on 11 March, 1884 for his examinations for t

...d was appointed as a {{NavCadRN}} to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 January, 1876.<ref name=sr135>ADM ...e was appointed on the same say to ''Firequeen'' for the month-long Senior Officers' Signal Course, and thence for a series of Gunnery and Torpedo courses.<ref

...oved by the Captain Superintendent, together with a Medical Certificate of physical efficiency, according to the prescribed regulations, will be required to be ...at is, free from impediment of speech, defect ol vision, rupture, or other physical inefficiency.

...and on 15 July 1891 was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth.{{DreyerSeaHeritage|p. 25}} Out of the ...une he was awarded the First Prize for German in the examination of junior officers afloat, and on 22 August he returned to ''Anson''. On 7 September, 1896, (

...e remembrances carried away by many who visited him in his flagship. This physical fitness combined with the mental and moral attributes he so abundantly poss ...November, Admiral Jellicoe entertained a group of staff officers and other officers. He allegedly said "that the Submarine War was going to get so bad in 1917

All naval officers of the Executive Branch of about my seniority and above - many now distingu My next impression of the ''Britannia'' was a physical one, and being also very painful, I will dispose of it now. Actually, the '

...n- tageous distribution of the Sea-keeping Fleet and of a better system of training for the Royal Naval Reserve. The elimination of the older vessels, which re ...o away completely with the distinction between the three branches when the officers reached the rank of Lieutenant.

Certificate of discharge form HM Training Ship BRITANNIA. Programme: "Dejeuner in the Guildhall. Visit of the Officers of the French Fleet to the City of London."

...olclough Allen|Hamilton C. Allen]]'''|'''[[Portsmouth|In Command, Physical Training School, Portsmouth]]'''<br>17 Aug, 1931 &ndash; 19 May, 1932|Succeeded by<b [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]

...tituted in 1913 to provide the [[Royal Navy]] with an additional source of officers for the [[Military Branch]]. Boys were entered at a later age, 17½ to 18½ ...of Commissions and Warrants Branch), was convened to discuss the scheme of training for the Special Entry Naval Cadets, and tendered its report on 21 April.<re

...nthly reports and restricting him to only that recreation required for his physical health.<ref>Cavendish Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50/19.|D7576678}} f. 1 ...endish was on unpaid time for six months and then took the Senior Officers Training Course, Part 1. He then took a series of commands of light cruisers as the

In May 1910, he was permitted to drop from a short course in Physical Training owing to an old injury to tendons in his foot. .... ''Tainui'', which had been torpedoed by [[Hans Adams]]'s {{DE-U82}}. The officers described Sams's behaviour as tactless in how he addressed men on his destr

...sh; 8 April, 1951) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. Like many junior officers, he found his metier in a series of destroyer commands during the [[Great W ...der of merit of sixty cadets accepted in the [[:Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of May, 1904|May 1904 intake term]] at {{UK-1Britannia|f=p}}

...the Retired List at his own request to facilitate the promotion of younger officers on 15 September, 1946.<ref>Whitworth Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/232.| ...Englefield Evans|Alfred E. Evans]]'''|'''[[Portsmouth|In Command, Physical Training School, Portsmouth]]'''<br>7 Jan, 1927{{NLJan28|p. 282}} &ndash; 17 Dec, 19