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==Later Career== | ==Later Career== | ||
Revision as of 10:06, 23 March 2015
Captain THE HONOURABLE Maurice Archibald Bourke, C.M.G., Royal Navy (22 December, 1853 – 16 September, 1900) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
Contents
Early Life & Career
Bourke was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December, 1883.[1]
Bourke was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1889.[2] He was appointed in command of the battleship Victoria on 20 August, 1891.[3]
On 29 January, 1892, Victoria ran aground under his command at Snipe Point near Platea on the Greek coast despite his precautions in setting out buoys in anticipate trouble areas. Bourke was subjected to the customary Court Martial stretching from 20-26 February and was severely reprimanded and admonished to be more careful in future. As events would prove, such cautions would prove insufficient.[4]
Loss of H.M.S. Victoria
An officer in H.M.S. Nile wrote shortly afterwards, "We had the Captain on board. I never saw a man so broken down. He did not know how to stand nor which way to look and always had his hand over his face on deck. Down below he sat all day long with his face buried in his arms and I don't believe he ate anything at all."[5]
Later Career
On 17 January, 1895, Bourke was appointed Assistant Director of Torpedoes at the Admiralty. On 12 November he was appointed in command of the corvette Cordelia, and as Commodore, Second Class when Senior Officer of the Newfoundland Fisheries Division. He hoisted his broad pendant during the Fishery Seasons from 27 April, 1896, to 24 October, 1896, from 29 April, 1897, to 5 November, 1897, and from 26 April, 1898, to 8 November, 1898. He gave up command of Cordelia on 14 December, 1898, and went on leave until 23 January, 1899. He then went on half pay before being appointed Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty on 20 November, 1899. Bourke died at Swansea on 16 September, 1900.
Bibliography
- "Obituary" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 19 September, 1900. Issue 36251, col F, p. 4.
Service Records
- The National Archives. ADM 196/38.
- The National Archives. ADM 196/19.
| Naval Appointments | ||
| Preceded by Sydney M. Eardley Wilmot |
Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence, Foreign Section 1 Apr, 1890[6] – 28 Aug, 1891[7] |
Succeeded by The Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe |
| Preceded by John C. Burnell |
Captain of H.M.S. Victoria 20 Aug, 1891[8] – 22 Jun, 1893 |
Succeeded by Vessel Lost |
| Preceded by William H. May |
Director of Naval Ordnance 17 Jan, 1895[9] |
Succeeded by Sir Baldwin W. Walker |
| Preceded by Wilmot H. Fawkes |
Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty 20 Nov, 1899[10] |
Succeeded by Wilmot H. Fawkes |
Footnotes
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25303. p. 1. 1 January, 1884.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26007. p. 7553. 31 December, 1889.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 6 August, 1891. Issue 33396, col E, p. 4.
- ↑ Bourke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 132.
- ↑ Quoted in Welch. "The Loss of HMS Victoria". Naval Review. p. 244.
- ↑ Bourke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 133.
- ↑ Bourke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/19. f. 49.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 6 August, 1891. Issue 33396, col E, p. 4.
- ↑ Bourke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 132.
- ↑ Bourke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 132.
