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  • ...e=fredbot:officeCIC otitle="Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station" nat="UK"> ...me=fredbot:office2IC otitle="Second in Command, East Indies Station" nat="UK">
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  • ...ld have been capable of landing hundreds of men as well as tanks, guns and transport. The landing had been designed to coincide with Allied success at the Thir {{CatShipMonitor|UK}}
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  • ...built for Chile as ''Constitucion''; she was purchased along with sister {{UK-Triumph}} on 3 December, 1903.{{DittColl|p. 31}} As a consequence, she did ..., a gun aboard ''Swiftsure'' accidentally fired and caused casualties on a transport. A Court of Enquiry found that gunnery {{LCommRN}} [[Cuthbert Winthrop Swi
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  • He was appointed in command of the battleship {{UK-Triumph}} on 5 August, 1914,{{NLDec14|p. 386}} and was in command when she ...aff to Senior Naval Officer, Mudros. He was appointed in command of the {{UK-Europa|df=t}} on 15 June, 1915, still acting as Chief of Staff.. On 31 Aug
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  • ...Transport Officer on the staff of the [[Transport Department (Royal Navy)|Transport Department]]. He was appointed temporary [[Paymaster-in-Chief (Royal Navy) {{CatPerson|UK|1863|1932}}
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  • Tothill was appointed in command of the {{UK-2Nautilus|f=t}} on 20 January, 1898. He was discharged from this duty on 3 ...|4557|30 June, 1905}} On 19 March, 1906, he was appointed in command of {{UK-Barfleur}}, and as Flag Captain.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Off
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  • ...nd then on the [[North America and West Indies Station]], before joining {{UK-Powerful|f=p}}. In the South African War, he commanded a battery of naval ...4, he served as Executive Officer in the new {{UK-GoodHope|f=t}}, in the {{UK-CS}}.
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  • ...nd}} and {{UK-DukeOfWellington}} of the Channel Squadron before going to {{UK-Excellent}} for examinations.<ref>Allenby Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42 After spending a little over three years in command of the {{UK-1Wanderer|f=t}}, Allenby was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 1 Januar
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  • ...First World War]]. An officer of undoubted ability, he died leading the {{UK-BCS|3}} in action at the [[Battle of Jutland]]. ..., 1886, then in the ''Minotaur'' until January, 1887, when he joined the {{UK-2Calliope}}, and in her was present at Samoa in the hurricane of 16 March,
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  • ...he Somaliland operations of 1903–4, and as [[First Lieutenant]] in the {{UK-Philomel|f=t}} he took part in the suppression of gun-running in the [[Pers On 3 July, 1906 he was appointed in command of the {{UK-TB81|f=t}}.{{NLJan07|p. 400}}
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  • ...s made a midshipman on 18 June, 1880.{{NLJul81|p. 10}} While serving in {{UK-1Audacious}} in 1883, an impish turn prompted him to write "improper remark ...and remained in her until 1 February, 1899 when he moved to command the {{UK-1Wanderer|f=t}}, remaining in her until being promoted to {{CommRN}} on 30
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  • ...onDuke}} and subsequently served as Commander in the post-1917 flagship, {{UK-QueenElizabeth}}. ...</ref> Blake's first appointment after leaving ''Britannia'' was to the {{UK-Majestic|f=t}} on 15 September, 1898.{{NLMar00|p. 270}} A month after join
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  • In November 1912, as Lieutenant (G) aboard {{UK-Cornwallis}}, he was blamed for poor results in gunlayers tests attributed ...ved as Gunnery Officer in {{UK-Agincourt}} from 10 October, 1916, and in {{UK-Thunderer}} from 26 February, 1919.<ref>Twigg Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 19
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  • He was appointed in command of the battleship {{UK-Albemarle|f=t}} on 26 August, 1909.<ref>Chatfield Service Record. The Nati On 8 February, 1910, he was appointed in command of the {{UK-1London|f=t}}.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments
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  • ...from a spell in ''Curlew'' for the annual man&oelig;uvres of 1892 and in {{UK-TB87}} in those of 1893,<ref>"The Naval Manœuvres". ''The Times''. Monda ...ies on 8 June, 1897. Not long after, on 21 July, Scott was appointed to {{UK-Majestic}} as torpedo officer. Captain MacLeod noted on Scott leaving ''Ju
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  • ...of Pakin Relief Exp[edition]". He remained in ''Endymion'' and performing Transport Duties until being summoned back to Greenwich for the Royal Naval College o He assumed command of the {{UK-Endymion|f=t}} in January 1905, remaining with her until June 1906.
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  • ...''', G.C.B., G.B.E., P.C. (26 September, 1875 &ndash; 22 June, 1937) was a transport administrator, politician and [[First Lord of the Admiralty]] during the [[ {{CatPerson|UK|1875|1937}}
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  • ...spent three years in this role before being appointed in command of the {{UK-2Surprise|f=t}}, vice Whyte, on 5 August, 1864.{{NMI|Monday, August 8, 1864 ...Octavia}}, Flagship of the East Indies Station. He was detailed to act as transport officer at Annesley Bay for duty with Sir Robert Napier's expedition to Mag
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  • ...is in 1909 designed a very popular accelerometer for testing road and rail transport, which measured acceleration irrespective of the gradient or curvature of t {{CatPerson|UK|1865|1941}}
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  • * [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_rv=simple&_q=ADM+Louis+Francis+Albert+Victor+Nicholas+Mountbatte ...CORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwmcollections.org.uk%2FqryMain.asp&TN=Uncat&SN=AUTO5402&SE=3338&RN=31&MR=25&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS
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