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Leake was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 22 June, 1911. | Leake was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 22 June, 1911. | ||
On 1 January, 1913, Leake was appointed Captain of {{UK-Amethyst}} and Captain (D) of the {{UK-DF|8}}. On 1 October he transferred to {{UK-Pathfinder}}, retaining command of the flotilla.<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 69.</ref> | On 1 January, 1913, Leake was appointed Captain of {{UK-Amethyst}} and Captain (D) of the {{UK-DF|8}}.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913). p. 276-7.</ref> | ||
On 1 October he transferred to {{UK-Pathfinder}}, retaining command of the flotilla.<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 69.</ref> | |||
==Great War== | ==Great War== | ||
Revision as of 15:20, 13 July 2013
Vice-Admiral Francis Martin Leake, C.B., D.S.O., Royal Navy, Retired (16 March, 1869 – 21 January, 1928) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Leake was promoted to the rank of Captain on 22 June, 1911.
On 1 January, 1913, Leake was appointed Captain of Amethyst and Captain (D) of the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla.[1]
On 1 October he transferred to Pathfinder, retaining command of the flotilla.[2]
Great War
On 5 September, 1914, Pathfinder was torpedoed by U.21 ten miles south-east of May Island. A magazine was detonated and the ship sank in four minutes with a large part of her crew. Leake was wounded but survived.[3] On 6 October he was appointed to Victory for service at Portland training up "M" class destroyers. He was appointed in command of the light cruiser Achilles on 19 February, 1915.[4]
He was appointed to Colleen on 20 June, 1917, as Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief on the Coast of Ireland with the rank of Commodore, Second Class.[5] Sir Lewis Bayly, the Commander-in-Chief, later wrote of Leake as "a most exceptional man, for everyone loved the little Commodore."[6]
Post-War
Leake's appointment in Ireland ceased on 1 June, 1919, and on the same day he was appointed to King George V as Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Sir Henry F. Oliver, Vice-Admiral Commanding the Home Fleet, which in November became the Reserve Fleet.[7] Oliver had served with Leake in Stork and apparently asked for him as Chief Staff Officer.[8]
He was placed on the Retired List at his own request dated 19 November, 1921, in order to facilitate the promotion of younger officers.[9]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Bayly, Admiral Sir Lewis (1939). Pull Together! The Memoirs of Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- Oliver, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F., K.C.B., K.C.M.G. Recollections. Volume II. National Maritime Museum. OLV/12.
Service Records
- The National Archives. ADM 196/89.
- The National Archives. ADM 196/43.
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