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[[File:H.M.S. Excellent.jpg|thumb|right|300px|H.M.S. ''Excellent'' in 1869.]] | [[File:H.M.S. Excellent.jpg|thumb|right|300px|H.M.S. ''Excellent'' in 1869.]] | ||
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[[File:H.M.S. Excellent Staff Officers, 1884.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Captain and Staff of ''Excellent'', 1884.]] | [[File:H.M.S. Excellent Staff Officers, 1884.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Captain and Staff of ''Excellent'', 1884.]] | ||
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[[File:William Wordsworth Fisher, Excellent.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Junior Staff Officer [[William Wordsworth Fisher|Fiisher]] observing drill on a gun.]] | [[File:William Wordsworth Fisher, Excellent.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Junior Staff Officer [[William Wordsworth Fisher|Fiisher]] observing drill on a gun.]] | ||
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| + | '''H.M.S. ''Excellent''''', also known as '''Portsmouth Gunnery School''' or '''Whale Island''' was the British [[Royal Navy]]'s main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. | ||
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| + | ==History== | ||
| + | A gunnery training school was founded in H.M.S. ''Excellent'' (formerly the ''Boyne'')<ref>Clowes. ''History of the Royal Navy''. '''VII'''. p. 69.</ref> 1830 at Portsmouth under Commander George Smith. The school was permanently established there in 1832, under Captain Thomas Hastings who remained in command until 1845, when he was succeeded by Captain Henry Ducie Chads.<ref>Clowes. ''History of the Royal Navy''. '''VI'''. p. 203.</ref> | ||
[[Category:Royal Navy Gunnery Training Schools|Excellent]] | [[Category:Royal Navy Gunnery Training Schools|Excellent]] | ||
[[Category:Royal Navy Education|Excellent]] | [[Category:Royal Navy Education|Excellent]] | ||
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Junior Staff Officer Fiisher observing drill on a gun.
H.M.S. Excellent, also known as Portsmouth Gunnery School or Whale Island was the British Royal Navy's main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
History
A gunnery training school was founded in H.M.S. Excellent (formerly the Boyne)[1] 1830 at Portsmouth under Commander George Smith. The school was permanently established there in 1832, under Captain Thomas Hastings who remained in command until 1845, when he was succeeded by Captain Henry Ducie Chads.[2]
