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• Walter John Tite Saunders
  Passed for navigator in first class ships with a 2nd class certificate on 21 October 1902.<ref>Saunders Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196 ...[[H.M.S. Rhouma (1893)|''Rhouma'']]. In May 1915 he moved to command the yacht [[H.M.S. Lorna (1904)|''Lorna'']]. On 17 December 1915 he was appoonted in
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• Clyde Local Defence Flotilla
  ...hen had three "A" class submarines and three surface vessels, one an armed yacht. Its strength would vary over time, but it would not get greatly larger th ...he and remains the only component of the Clyde Local Defence Flotilla. {{UK-SF|8}}, a component of the [[Harwich Force]] is redesignated as the Ninth.{
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• H.M.S. Nasturtium (1915)
  ...sturtium''''' was one of thirty-six [[Arabis Class Sloop (1915)|''Arabis'' Class sweeping sloops]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]]. {{UK-Russell}}, ''Nasturtium'' and the hired yacht ''Aegusa'' were all sunk by a minefield laid by {{DE-U73}} off Malta.{{Kind
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• Hawthorn Leslie & Company
  |{{US-Shearwater|f=p}}||armed yacht||1887||Sold 1898 |{{UK-1Bellona|f=p}}||third class protected cruiser||29 Aug, 1890||Sold 1906
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• J. & G. Thomson
  |{{UK-Firebrand|f=p}}||gunboat||30 Apr, 1877||Sold 1905 |{{UK-1Firefly|f=p}}||gunboat||28 Jun, 1877||Sold 1931
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• Lionel George Spiridione Hancock
  ...uary, 1873 and passed the Royal Naval College in August, 1880 with a third class certificate.<ref>Hancock Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38/532.|D7601269}} On 21 July, 1898 Hancock grounded {{UK-Onyx|f=p}}, eliciting a plea from the Admiralty that he may be more careful
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• Denis Burke Crampton
  ...hannel Squadron]], appointed 16 October 1888. On 4 December, he went to {{UK-1Champion}} in the Pacific. He remained in ''Champion'' until she paid off ...8 November, 1901. On 11 January, he was appointed navigating officer in {{UK-Sutlej}} and served in her until she paid off on 22 December, 1903.<ref>Cra
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• Henry Percival Wilson
  ...itannia (Training Ship) Entrants of May, 1899|May, 1899 intake term]] at {{UK-1Britannia|f=p}}. His scores (3168 marks) on the entrance examination pla ...ived his first naval appointments to the battleships {{UK-Barfleur}} and {{UK-Albion}} on the [[China Station]], but Captain Jerram assessed him as "good
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• Herbert Lyon
  ...ng about three months. In March 1906 he was appointed in command of the {{UK-1Cornwall|f=t}}. He served as captain of {{UK-Formidable}} from January 1907 until some time in 1908.
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• Ninth Submarine Flotilla (Royal Navy)
  ...some point between July and September 1916, it was re-designated as the {{UK-SF|7}}. * {{UK-Pactolus}}
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• Herbert Edward Purey-Cust
  Purey-Cust was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} from the Royal Yacht ''Victoria and Albert'' with seniority of 13 September, 1878.{{Gaz|24626|52 ...g George V's coronation he was appointed an Additional Member of the Third Class, or Companion, in the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Ba
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• H.M. T.B. 63 (1878)
  |chain=Torpedo Boats,Second-class Torpedo Boats |nat=UK
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• Tower's Steady Platform
  ...n June 1889 at Spithead with a rifle lashed to a model of a 3-pdr gun on a yacht named ''Seal'', it proved unsatisfactory due to a jerky motion of 0.5 to 1 In June 1892, a platform was fitted to the {{UK-Bloodhound|f=t}}, mounting a 24-in searchlight. A contemporary newspaper a
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• H.M.Y. Victoria and Albert (1899)
  |nat=UK '''H.M.Y. ''Victoria and Albert''''' was the third royal yacht to bear that name.
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• Frederic Giffard
  ...5. In October, he would receive a £10 prize for having obtained six first-class certificates in passing for Lieutenant. Giffard was appointed in command of the {{UK-1TB33|f=t}} on 12 January, 1906.{{NLJan07|p. 399}}
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• Seventh Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)
  ...of assorted old torpedo boats and [[River Class Destroyer (1903)|''River'' class destroyers]]. The T.B.s ran 37 18-in cold torpedoes that year, endangering * {{UK-Blonde}} (flag)
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• Victor George Shepheard
  He was present at the [[Battle of Jutland]] in the {{UK-Agincourt|f=t}} as Damage Control Officer, an experience which stayed with ...ms. In 1924 while in Newcastle overseeing the building of the battleship {{UK-Nelson}} he married Florence Wood. The marriage lasted 60 years until her d
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• Cecil Spencer Hickley
  ...DM 196/88. f. 57.</ref> During his time at the Cape Hickley played first-class cricket for the Western Province team.<ref>Cricket Archive. [http://cricke ...|5692|15 September, 1899}} While in the Royal Yacht, Hickley played first-class cricket for Somerset.<ref>Cricket Archive. [http://cricketarchive.com/Arch
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• Michael Culme-Seymour, Fourth Baronet
  ...ert''. He was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} for service in the Royal Yacht on 31 August, 1900.<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointme On 17 April, 1903 Culme-Seymour was appointed to {{UK-Majestic}} as Chief of the Staff to Vice-Admiral [[Charles William de la Po
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• Francis Martin Leake
  ...3, Leake was appointed Captain of {{UK-Amethyst}} and Captain (D) of the {{UK-DF|8}}.{{NLJul13|p. 276-7}} On 1 October he transferred to {{UK-Pathfinder}}, retaining command of the flotilla.<ref>Leake Service Record.
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