Geoffrey Nepean Biggs

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Geoffrey Nepean Biggs ( – c. 22 November, 1916) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Biggs was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 April, 1906.[1]

Biggs was appointed in command of the submarine C 16 on 20 November, 1913.[2]

Biggs was killed when his E 30 was lost, probably to a mine, on or about 22 November, 1916.[3]

See Also

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Noel F. Laurence 		Captain of H.M.S. B 6
1 Jan, 1909[4] – 1910 		Succeeded by
Geoffrey R. S. Watkins
Preceded by
Noel F. Laurence 		Captain of H.M.S. A 1
2 Dec, 1910[5] 		Succeeded by
?
Preceded by
Ferdinand E. B. Feilmann 		Captain of H.M.S. C 16
20 Nov, 1913[6] 		Succeeded by
Harold Boase

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Navy List. (March, 1913). p. 7.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 277.
  3. ↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 75.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 319.
  5. ↑ The Monthly Navy List. (March, 1911). p. 344.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 277.

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