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[[Category:1840 births|Long]]
 
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Revision as of 16:06, 17 July 2012

Rear-Admiral Samuel Long, Royal Navy (5 January, 1840 – 25 April, 1893) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Early Life & Career

Long was promoted to the rank of Commander on 3 April, 1868.[1]

Captain

Long was promoted to the rank of Captain on 12 December, 1876.[2]

He was appointed in command of the turret ship Agamemnon on the China Station on 2 September, 1884.[3] On 28 May, 1886, he was appointed to command Vernon, torpedo training ship at Portsmouth.[4]

Long was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 27 August, 1891, vice Chatfield.[5]

On 22 March, 1893, Long gave a very thoughtful paper to the Institution of Naval Architects, "On the Present Position of Cruisers in Naval Warfare,"[6] on "the work such vessels [cruisers] are likely to be called upon to perform in case of war."[7] On 25 April he was out riding on the Petersfield Road near his home when he was thrown from his horse and received fatal head injuries. He died at his house, Blendworth Lodge, Horndean, on 26 April.

Footnotes

  1. London Gazette: no. 23368. p. 2106. 7 April, 1868.
  2. London Gazette: no. 24394. p. 6947. 15 December, 1876.
  3. Navy List (June, 1885). p. 191.
  4. Navy List (March, 1887). p. 253.
  5. London Gazette: no. 26199. p. 4775. 8 September, 1891.
  6. Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects. XXXIV. pp. 1-18.
  7. Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects. XXXIV. p. 1.

Bibliography

  • "Obituary" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 26 April, 1893. Issue 33935, col D, pg. 5.

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