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==Service Records==
==Service Records==
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| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;"  align="center"| Preceded by<br>'''[[Charles John Balfour|Charles J. Balfour]]'''
|[[Pembroke Royal Dockyard|Captain Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard]]|[[Charles John Balfour|Charles J. Balfour]]|1896 &ndash; 1899|[[Charles James Barlow|Charles J. Barlow]]
| width="220" style="border-bottom:1px solid grey;"  align="center"| '''[[Captain Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard]]'''<br>1896 &ndash; 1899
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|[[Mediterranean Station|Second-in-Command,<br>Mediterranean]]|[[Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford|Lord Charles Beresford]]|1902|[[Reginald Neville Custance|Reginald N. Custance]]
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Revision as of 12:46, 17 October 2012

Rear-Admiral Burges Watson, C.V.O., Royal Navy (24 September, 1846 – 21 September, 1902) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Watson was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1885.[1]

He commanded the battleship Repulse for two years starting from October 1893.[2] He was the first commander of her new sister, Royal Oak, from January to November of 1896.[3]

On the occasion of the Queen's visit to Cherbourg he was appointed a Companion in the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) on 9 May, 1899.[4] He was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral with seniority of 25 August.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25545. p. 7. 1 January, 1886.
  2. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  3. ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27079. p. 3029. 12 May, 1899.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27119. p. 5814. 22 September, 1899.

Bibliography

Service Records


Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Charles J. Balfour 		Captain Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard
1896 – 1899 		Succeeded by
Charles J. Barlow

Preceded by
Lord Charles Beresford 		Second-in-Command,
Mediterranean
1902 		Succeeded by
Reginald N. Custance

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