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  • After surveying the available evidence they found that the ship was sunk "by the explosion ...regretfully comes to the conclusion that blame is attributable to the dead Officers responsible for the Gunnery Department of the ship for allowing cordite cha
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  • ...than colleagues, which according to Dr. C. I. Hamilton "annoyed many naval officers."<ref>Hamilton. p. 153.</ref> ...e superintends the Hydrographical Department under Captain Beaufort, & the Surveying Service in General.
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  • ...ssistant Paymasters.<br>Clerks.<br>Clerks.<br>Assistant Clerks.<br>Warrant Officers. | Appointments of Medical Officers.
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  • ...[[Annual Manoeuvres of 1887]], after which Kiddle decided to apply for the Surveying Service in order to increase his meagre income of five shillings a day. On ...filthy, the Captain was mad, there was no poop or forecastle. The junior officers [sic] quarters were in what was called the Pandemonium.<ref>Kiddle. f. 35.
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  • ...red to be resurveyed in two months. On 12 September he asked to leave the Surveying Branch and return to General Service. He was again found unfit on 9 Decemb ...]], 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.<
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  • ...ter a long period of service in the [[Hydrographic Department (Royal Navy)|Surveying Service]], he became a Navigating Officer of distinction - his exploits as ...Interim Report of the Departmental Committee on the Future Requirements of Officers of the Military, Engineer, and Marine Branches." p. 2.{{TNA|ADM 116/881.}}
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  • ...anced naval flying during the early months of 1912 that he and four of his officers were allowed to fly over the naval review at [[Portland]] in May. However, ...o to the Cape. This involved making and supplying the necessary bases and surveying an undeveloped route. The flight, made by four Fairey III.Fs, succeeded.
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  • ...0313|10051|28 September, 1917}} On 27 November he hoisted his flag in the surveying vessel ''Research'' as Senior Naval Officer and Rear-Admiral of the Dockyar [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]
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  • As Drawing will prove a most useful qualification for Naval Officers, it is recommended that Candidates for the Service should be instructed the :3. Such knowledge of Nautical Surveying as may enable him to measure a base line and determine positions by angles,
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  • ...eamer Salamander on the east coast of Australia. His duties there included surveying. In 1868 he took command of the Newport for hydrographical work in the Medi ...ds employed to sample the life and conditions of the deep sea owed much to surveying techniques recently developed in connection with submarine telegraphy, and
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  • ...He and the commander, Lieutenant James St. Clair Bower, were the only two officers on the ship. ...h sailors had left their rifles and ammunition in their boat and were busy surveying.
    10 KB (1,516 words) - 18:15, 6 April 2022
  • ...lar equipment awarded to junior officers who submitted the most creditable surveying work of a harbour or similar marine environment.
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  • Waistell surveyed Port Stanley from 15 January to 2 February 1891, receiving surveying pay of 2/6 a day while so engaged.<ref>Waistell Service Record. {{TNA|ADM [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]
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  • ...certificate in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Marine Surveying. Programme: "Dejeuner in the Guildhall. Visit of the Officers of the French Fleet to the City of London."
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  • ...January 1891 and a series of letters concerning a disagreement between two officers. Printed book: 'Mathematical Instruments. Vol.III. Surveying and Astronomical Instruments.', by J F Heather, London, Crosby Lockwood, 18
    16 KB (2,174 words) - 09:48, 11 December 2013
  • ...899''' was a piece of legislation affecting the definitions of service for officers of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...to sanction the following rules and definition of Service as regards Flag Officers, Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants in Your Majesty's Navy:—
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  • ...d as a lieutenant on half-pay and his appointment to his first independent surveying commission of the Oil Rivers of West Africa. ...1896 to 15 May 1896. They contain detailed accounts of hydrographical and surveying work and daily life of the ship, as well as personal information. Note to b
    16 KB (2,440 words) - 15:36, 13 December 2013
  • ...aval and Military forces, of ascertaining the comparative situation of the officers in each branch, and of reporting whether, due regard being had to economy a ...ame into our serious consideration, so far as it relates to Your Majesty's officers of the Royal Navy and Marines; and we most humbly submit to Your Majesty wh
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  • Having recently been engaged in surveying work at Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, Hutchinson was placed on the ...grounded. A review of a Board of Enquiry pinned the fault on Hutchinson's officers, who had served him poorly. It was made plain that Hutchinson did not dese
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  • Boucher was awarded the [[Shadwell Testimonial]] Prize in 1917 for surveying the entrance to Port Kalesai[?], Mytilene, on Lesbos.<ref>Boucher Service R ...List the following day. A request to be placed on the list of active flag officers was refused.<ref>Boucher Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/52/63.|D7605150}} f
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