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...er Cooper-Key|E. M. C. Cooper-Key]], A. J. Hotham.<br><small>Photograph: ''Navy & Army Illustrated''.</small>]] ...y a junior flag officer or senior Captain of distinction, based first at [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich|Greenwich]], Devonport, and then at Portsmouth. B

{{Template:Royal Navy}} ...eague''' was a British organisation set to promote support for the [[Royal Navy]] in the very late 19th Century and onwards. As the largest naval interest

...0 November, 1833 &ndash; 28 September, 1912) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ..., daughter of the Rev. Walter Blake Kirwan [q.v.] , dean of Killala. After education at the Naval School, New Cross, he became a naval cadet in 1848. He served

...rved as [[Second Sea Lord]], Commander-in-Chief of the [[Home Fleet (Royal Navy)|Home Fleet]], and [[First Sea Lord]]. In 1912 he was dismissed in acrimon He entered the Royal Navy as Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman Simpson.

...[Board of Admiralty]] responsible for the personnel of the British [[Royal Navy]]. He was in charge of manning the ships, and training and educating the m ...y as the Junior Naval Lord, and the task of superintending the Coastguard, Royal Naval Reserve, and the manning of the Fleet.<ref>''The Naval Staff of the A

...cision.<br>He superintends the Department of the Accountant General of the Navy under (M^r Briggs) as also that of the Director of Works (under C | Education and Schools Generally.

...avy (5 September, 1862 &ndash; 5 June, 1935) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. In 1892 he was appointed Torpedo Lieutenant of the ''Royal Sovereign'', Flagship of the Channel Squadron, and in 1893 resumed his post

...Retired (26 February, 1872 &ndash; 26 October, 1949) was a British [[Royal Navy]] officer and courtier. ...ned a Sub-Lieutenant on 14 July, 1891. In July, 1893 he was posted to the Royal Yacht and was promoted Lieutenant on 28 August, 1893.{{Gaz|26444|5433|26 Se

...d naval historian while still on the Active List. After retiring from the Navy he was elected to the Vere Harmsworth Chair of Imperial and Naval History a ...iew article.</ref> Herbert had first developed an interest in joining the navy when, at the age of ten, he had visited Portsmouth. He attended St Mark's

...Rising to fleet command in the early 1900s, he was widely regarded as the Navy's preeminent tactician. He was promoted to {{FleetRN}} in 1907 and succeed ...99–1845. Wilson attended Eton College from 1852 to 1855; he entered the navy in 1855, and was immediately employed on active service in the Black Sea du

He is not to be confused with the Royal Navy Admiral [[William Henry Whyte]]. ...the Admiralty staff by Sir Edward James Reed, the chief constructor of the navy, White being engaged as a professional secretary to Sir Edward.

...uadron (Royal Navy)|First Battle Squadron]] of the [[Atlantic Fleet (Royal Navy)|Atlantic Fleet]] at the time of the [[Scuttling of the High Sea Fleet]] in ...er, Edmund Robert Fremantle, then serving on the Australian Station in the Navy.{{FremantleMyNavalCareer|p. 14}}

[[Admiral of the Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]] Marquis (Kōshaku (侯爵)) '''Tōgō Heihachirō'' ...Satsuma War (August 1863), in which Kagoshima was bombarded by the [[Royal Navy]] to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson

...avy (6 February, 1849 &ndash; 13 June, 1914) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...g St. Mary, Suffolk. After studying at Eton, Durnford entered the [[Royal Navy]], being appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|

...pril, 1861 &ndash; 19 January, 1942) was a Naval Instructor in the [[Royal Navy]]. "For valuable services as Deputy Adviser on Naval Education" he was appointed a Commander of the Military Division of the Most Excellen

...r John Fisher]], descended into a bitter feud which threatened to tear the navy in half in the early years of the Twentieth Century. ...before being appointed to ''Victory'' until 17 July, before serving in the royal yacht proper. Whilst at Holyhead he hunted a great deal, both there, with

{{pad|800px}}''Admiralty'', 3''rd October'', 1848.<ref>''Navy List'' (December, 1855). p. 225.</ref> {{pad|800px}}''Admiralty'', 13''th February'', 1851.<ref>''Navy List'' (December, 1855). p. 226.</ref>

...tired (19 July, 1870 &ndash; 30 April, 1949) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. EDUCATION

...dation of the [[Director of Naval Education (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Education]].

...dation of the [[Director of Naval Education (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Education]].

...he [[Grand Fleet]]. After the war, he was [[Director of Navigation (Royal Navy)|Director of Navigation]] from 1923 to 1925. EDUCATION

...e name given to the British [[Royal Navy]]'s ship used for the preliminary education of naval officers from 1859 to 1905. It was anchored first at Portsmouth, ...dshipmen. Over the forty-six year life of ''Britannia'', the training and education changed continually, with seamanship and mathematics being the only constan

...nder study there before transferring for two years' further study at the [[Royal Naval College, Dartmouth]]. The Service Records of Royal Navy personnel educated under this new scheme bear the unromantic entry of "Trai

...th. Officers continue to be trained there today in its guise as Britannia Royal Naval College. ...a final one of 30 in January, 1906.<ref>''Report of the Director of Naval Education, for the Year 1905''. f. 6. In {{TNA|ADM 7/936.}}</ref>

...[Royal Navy]] responsible for monitoring and deciphering [[Imperial German Navy]] signals. ...operators, which were then forwarded to the [[Intelligence Division (Royal Navy)|Director of Intelligence Division]] at the Admiralty, {{RearRN}} [[Henry F

...ranch War College, Sheerness''' was an educational facility of the [[Royal Navy]]. [[Category:Royal Naval Colleges]]

...(2 November, 1860 &ndash; 13 December, 1936) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. EDUCATION

...d (12 September, 1850 &ndash; 5 March, 1921) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. Captain Royal Navy (retired)

...time during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the [[Royal Navy]] had thousands of boys under training. Until 1905 training was exclusively ...[[Robert Hastings Harris|Robert H. Harris]], 18 September, 1889.<ref>''The Navy List, Corrected to the 20th March, 1891''. p. 229.</ref>

...bution of the Sea-keeping Fleet and of a better system of training for the Royal Naval Reserve. The elimination of the older vessels, which require the most That the general efficiency of the Navy would be much assisted by the removal of this distinction was to them beyon

...ecial clauses directed against sedition in the press. The Act received the royal assent on 4 April. The Land Act followed, and the consequent improvement in ...ident of the council. The office constituted its occupant the chief of the education department. Spencer discharged his varied duties with discretion until the

...Retired (29 May, 1874 &ndash; 27 May, 1949) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...hip [[H.M.S. Monarch (1868)|''Monarch'']] in the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadron]] on 15 January, 1890. On 15 February he was rated {{Mid

...n his mother's side however was a long tradition of service in the [[Royal Navy]]. His great-great-grandfather {{CaptRN}} Philip Patton fought at La Hogue ...r of 1812. He was killed during his ship's fight with the [[United States Navy]] frigate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution U.S.S. ''Constitut

...Portsmouth Gunnery School''' or '''Whale Island''' was the British [[Royal Navy]]'s main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twen ...ucceeded by Captain Henry Ducie Chads.<ref>Clowes. ''History of the Royal Navy''. '''VI'''. p. 203.</ref> The ''Excellent'', formerly Collingwood's shi

...(9 September, 1884 &ndash; 14 August, 1960) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. EDUCATION

..., all of which exist in imperfect combination at present:&mdash;<br>1) War Education, under the President of the War College;<br>2) War Information, under the D ...n a War Staff for the Royal Navy|''Memorandum on a War Staff for the Royal Navy'']] which detailed the administration of the War Staff. On the same day, R

...tter of 28 August, 1907. Tweedmouth Papers. National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth. MSS 254/634.</ref> ...uote>Serving for a year in close association with Sir John Jellicoe was an education in itself. The duties of the second-in-command of a Channel Squadron, or A

[[Category:Royal Navy Education|St. Vincent]]

...September, 1922) was a naval historian closely associated with the [[Royal Navy]] in the early Twentieth Century. ...ersuaded him to edit a volume connected with Drake, Papers Relating to the Navy during the Spanish War, 1585–1587 (1898). At forty-five Corbett was hesit

...br>(g) Uniform.<br>(h) Leave of absence.<br>(i) Medical attendance.<br>(j) Education of the children of the Coastguard.<br>(k) Religious ministrations.<br>(l) C | Royal National Lifeboat Institution. || Trinity House.

...Navy (6 August, 1844 &ndash; 30 July, 1900) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...of 23 February, 1857. {{TNA|ADM 7/890.}} For earlier regulations see ''The Navy List, Corrected to the 20th December, 1856''. p. 224.</ref>

[[Category:Royal Navy Education]]

....<ref>''The New Scheme of Naval Training. Lecture by the Director of Naval Education. 11th May 1906''. p. 23/</ref>]] ...|Military Branch]], [[Engineer Branch (Royal Navy)|Engineer Branch]] and [[Royal Marine Forces]] into one '''Common Entry''' (by which name the scheme was a

...d correspondence about books. Agreements and letters, "Drake and the Tudor Navy" and agreements, 1900 and 1916 relating to "Successors of Drake", with cons ...Review", 1901-4, by Corbett, "Colonel Wilks and Napoleon, Education in the Navy, I, II and III, Found wanting, The Little Englander, The One-Eyed Commissio

[[Category:Royal Navy Education|St. Vincent]]

...Naval Education (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Education]] in the [[Royal Navy]] from 1903 to 1916, and was one of the founders of [[Room 40]] during the [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]

...g|thumb|right|350px|Vice-Admiral Philip H. Colomb.<br><small>Photograph: ''Navy & Army Illustrated''.</small>]] ...ired (29 May, 1831 &ndash; 13 October, 1899) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. He is chiefly remembered today for his contributions to naval strategic

...or the design of British warships and supervision of their construction in Royal Dockyards. Established by Order in Council of 23 August, 1883, the corps w As of 1900 there were three ways to join the R.C.N.C.:<ref>"Royal Corps of Naval Constructors". pp. 2-4. {{TNA|ADM 1/7460A.}}</ref>

...., (7 August, 1878 &ndash; 25 October, 1943) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. Born in London, the son of G. Fitzmaurice, who worked with the education department at Whitehall.

The instructions for the [[Training and Staff Duties Division (Royal Navy)|Director of Training and Staff Duties]] were initialled by the [[First Sea ...stem of Entry of Officers and men, and the scheme of General and Technical Education and Training of Executive Officers and Cadets, Men and Boys.

Proposals, condition of entry into the navy, newspaper cuttings, letters. Education Reform Council, Memoranda and correspondence.

...½ to 18½, than the normal [[Selborne Scheme]] entry, at a point in their education when they were likely to be leaving public school. Once entered as {{NavCad ...lfred Ewing|J. A. Ewing]] ([[Director of Naval Education|Director of Naval Education]]), Captain [[Henry Tritton Buller|Henry T. Buller]], and [[Charles Walker]

...tracts "of the Report and Appendix of the Committee of 1852 on Manning the Navy." | Report from the Select Committee on Navy (Promotion and Retirement); Together with the Proceedings of the Committee,

Commonplace book concerning training and education, history order and instructions, preperation for war, mines, employment of ...nce, Naval Appreciation of East Indies Station, and remarks concerning the Royal Indian Marine. Also includes some general correspondence and the Proceeding

...3 December, 1886 &ndash; 30 September, 1962) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]] and eventually rose to the rank of Captain, serving in World War II. Figgins entered the Navy as Boy, Second Class at age fifteen and a half on 9 May, 1902.<ref>Figgins

...lgi''' (7 March, 1886 &ndash; 8 March, 1953) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] who entered politics after the Great War, serving in the House of Commons ...ber, 1905 he again joined the ''Glory'', now in the [[Channel Fleet (Royal Navy)|Channel Fleet]].

...nt of this Magazine; and the movement which has been made to improve Naval Education—a movement in which officers and civilians alike have joined—is also ev ...happier times, and any attempts to improve the scientific education of the Navy will be warmly seconded by those for whom they are made. It is not our purp

....B.E., R.N. (2 March, 1884 &ndash; 26 January, 1933) served in the [[Royal Navy]]. ..."Duke of Wellington" written across the top, perhaps suggesting his early education.

[[Category:Royal Navy Education]]

...Intelligence Department, Admiralty. Printed booklet ‘Lord Fisher on The Navy’, containing a series of articles by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, re ...|A. T. Mahan]], U.S.N. 'On the entry and training of officers in the Royal Navy under the new scheme'; Secret letter from Fisher to Thursfield 29 December

[[Category:Royal Navy Education|King Alfred]]

The Army & Navy Pocket Diary & Almanac for 1887 belonging to Tristan Dannreuther. Army & Navy Octavo diary for 1888 belonging to Tristan Dannreuther.

'''H.M.S. ''Valkyrie''''' was a [[Royal Navy]] onshore training establishment on the [[Isle of Man]], established about [[Category:Royal Navy Education]]

...D.S.O.}} (4 January, 1890 &ndash; 30 December, 1968) served in the [[Royal Navy]]. For much of his career, at least through January 1921{{NLJan21|p. 3}}, ...competitive examination for Naval Cadetships.{{ToL|Cadetships in the Royal Navy|Thursday, Apr. 20, 1905; pg. 8; Issue 37686}} Accordingly on 15 May he join

...ontroller of Victualling, Director of Transport Service, Controller of the Navy, Medical Director General, Registrar of Contracts, Hydrographer, War Depart ...nean and Portsmouth: pension regulations for officers and men of the Royal Navy and Marines, and their relatives 1876.

...nd copies of letters between Fisher and Beresford relating to Navy League, navy rations, Naval Estimates, review of Mediterranean fleet, 1900-2; Copy of Se Navy and Gunnery: Naval Estimates, 1902-5, correspondence relating to Navy League, from Percy Scott and Fred T. Jane.

...nstructions for the Five Principle Officers of the Civil Department of the Navy', Admiralty, London, 1844, with annotations. Printed book of Admiralty statutes: 'The Statutes relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Shipping and Navigation of the United Kingdom, From 9 Hen.III to 3 Geo.IV

...Lord Wester Wemyss]], who as a Captain worked closely with Fisher in naval education is apparently included because of a seething hatred he later expressed in h ...ss of Milford Haven]], who left the [[Naval Intelligence Department (Royal Navy)|Naval Intelligence Department]] prematurely rather than work with Fisher,

==Role in Education== ...lege, Osborne]], supplying a limited number of cadets for entry into the [[Royal Naval College, Dartmouth]].

* [[:Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at H.M.S. Worcester|Royal Navy Officers Educated at H.M.S. Worcester]] [[Category:Royal Navy Education|Worcester]]

....S. ''Majestic''''', launched in 1914, taken up in 1936 for use as a Royal Navy training ship under a new name. [[Category:Royal Navy Education|Caledonia]]

...er, 1914) served briefly in the [[Royal Navy]] after completing a stunning education.

[[File:Royal Navy's 1894 manoeuvres map.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Royal Navy's 1894 Manoeuvre site including starting locations of fleets]] The [[Royal Navy]]'s '''Annual Manoeuvres of 1894''' were planned to operate over a maximum

...John Ayscough, with commissions, one of Hawkins Godolphin Ayscough, Lt in ROYAL WILLIAM, 1836, and one of Adm Ayscough as Rear-Adm, 1841. Lt Osbert Stephen Boothby: biography of his brother, Maj C.E. Boothby, Royal Marines, 1909-40.

...tion of the fleets; cable communication; the protection of commerce; naval education; battle and cruising formations; the submarine and the Whitehead torpedo. 1 ...ndence. Subjects include: the possibility of action against Germany; naval education; the future of Marine officers; the comparative strength of Britain and Ger

...rt [First Commissioner of Works] (2); Walter Runciman [President, Board of Education]; Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on th ...Sir Frederic Fisher (3); Rear-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [Controller of the Navy] on payment for Arthur Pollen's gunnery system. 1 file. Aug 1908-Nov 1910.

...ay''', (10 September, 1881 &ndash; 11 January, 1944) served in the [[Royal Navy]]. On 11 January, 1922 he was lent to the [[Royal Australian Navy]] for the customary two-year term, but in July the R.A.N. indicated he was

...e of torpedoes and report of an interview with Admiral Shach of the German Navy [c. 15 July 1914]. Naval education. Notes, papers and correspondence on naval education, including notes on the training of lieutenants, lecture notes, book lists,