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...On 17 October, 1883, he was appointed Acting {{LieutRN}} to the gunboat {{UK-1Flirt}} on the Cape station. He was formally promoted to the rank of Lieut ...S.S. ''Cuzco'', arriving back on 9 June. He was appointed to the cruiser {{UK-1Mersey}} for the annual manœuvres from 4 July to 22 August, then com

..., col B, p. 9.</ref> On 31 August, 1911, he was appointed in command of {{UK-Actaeon}}, the torpedo school at Sheerness.<ref>Paine Service Record. {{TN ...ary, 1914.<ref>''The Edinburgh Gazette'': [http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/12630/pages/7 no. 12630. p. 7.] 2 January, 1914.</ref>

...ckieRNW}} With her as his flagship, he was acting as Captain (D) of the {{UK-DF|2}} later that year.<ref>"The Mobilization of the Fleet" ''The Times''. On 1 September, 1913, he was appointed in command of {{UK-Temeraire}}.{{NLDec14|p. 384}}

...ouse, Christchurch, his father the physician, H. W. Hartford. He joined {{UK-1Britannia|f=p}} as a Naval Cadet on 15 January, 1898, ranking forty-fourth Hartford joined {{UK-1Crescent}}, the flagship of the [[North America and West Indies Station]]

...only a few months until he was appointed to command the new torpedo ram {{UK-Polyphemus}}, taking command on 25 November, 1881.{{NLDec83|p. 232}} The s ...in which a submerged torpedo tube he had designed was being evaluated in {{UK-2Severn}}.{{ARTS1887|p. 3}} The tube needed some adjustments in design bef

...899. This was followed by appointments in command of {{UK-Mermaid}} and {{UK-Cheerful}}. He was again appointed from ''Cheerful'' for a half-year in co He served as captain of {{UK-Implacable}} from May 1907 through September of the following year.

...nese Navy]]. Upon his return he spent a year on the cadet training ship {{UK-1Britannia}}, before serving as the junior member of a committee appointed ...from 1874 to 1876. On 26 April, 1876 he was appointed commander of the {{UK-Vernon}},{{NLJul78|p. 249}} a hulk in Portsmouth harbour recently establish

...r in a number of ships through 1903, when he was performing such work in {{UK-Glory}}. He was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} while in the ship on 30 Shelford commanded the {{UK-1Hood|f=t}} from 22 October, 1909 through 28 November, 1910, being promoted

...appointed Rear-Admiral in command of a "Special Force", with his flag in {{UK-Euryalus}}.<ref>Christian service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42/157.}}</ref> On ...ristian, who will be in command of a combined force, Flag temporarily in {{UK-Sapphire}}.<ref>''Naval Staff Monographs''. '''III'''. p. 37.</ref></block

A minute of 23 September, 1889 while Arbuthnot was at {{UK-Vernon|f=p}}, records: ...UK-Hampshire|f=t}} in July 1905,{{MackieRNW}} then of the new battleship {{UK-LordNelson}} on 9 September, 1907.{{NLOct08|p. 342}}

...sh naval history, however &mdash; the next flotilla created would be the {{UK-SloopF|10}}, in February, 1916. ...created some time in June, with just three sloops ({{UK-Sunflower}} and {{UK-Lily}} are to join shortly).{{SMNLJul15|p. 14}}

...p. 6.</ref> hoisting his flag in {{UK-PrinceGeorge}}, transferring it to {{UK-Jupiter}} on 3 February and striking it on 17 November, 1909.<ref>Bush Serv ...''', col A, p. 12.</ref> At the end of August, 1907 the Second and Fourth Destroyer Flotillas and the Home Fleet flotillas under Commodore Bayly ceased to be t

...he Somaliland operations of 1903–4, and as [[First Lieutenant]] in the {{UK-Philomel|f=t}} he took part in the suppression of gun-running in the [[Pers On 3 July, 1906 he was appointed in command of the {{UK-TB81|f=t}}.{{NLJan07|p. 400}}

...ovember 1912 a Court of Inquiry concluded that a coaling accident aboard {{UK-Collingwood}} which resulted in the death of a Leading Signalman injured tw In December 1912, he assumed command of the {{UK-Highflyer|f=t}}.

...yer, the Viper, which attained a measured speed of over 37 knots. A second destroyer, the Cobra, was also fitted with turbine machinery, but shortly afterwards ...antages of turbines for warships, laid down in 1901 another turbine-driven destroyer, which was acquired in 1903 by the fleet under the name of Velox. This was

He passed out of {{UK-1Britannia}} in December, 1897 ranked eleventh of the sixty-four cadets who Bailey served as Gunnery Officer of {{UK-Erin|f=p}} from 1914 to May 1916, leaving this post just before the [[Battl

Burrough was appointed to the {{UK-1Southampton|f=t}} as gunnery officer on 12 May, 1916. This fortuitous tim Burrough served as First Lieutenant and Gunnery Officer of {{UK-Indomitable}} from 13 August, 1917 to 21 November, 1918.

Osborne underwent examinations for in July, 1897 and gained entrance to {{UK-1Britannia}}'s term of August, 1897, his 1398 marks placing him eleventh am Osborne was the Gunnery Officer of {{UK-Conqueror|f=p}} from 15 April, 1912&ndash;1915, and Executive Officer 1915&

...er-in-Chief had determined was "not suitable for so important a ship as {{UK-Benbow}}".<ref>Phillimore Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49.|}} f. 110.</re On 14 March, 1939, Elliott was appointed to {{UK-Warspite}}, additional, to serve temporarily on the staff of the Commander

...uadron bar. A second, simpler slider located nearer the hub is called the destroyer position pointer. ...Squadron Bar''' is depicted in magenta in the figure and is pivoted on the destroyer position pointer which in turn rides on the position bar. "It carries thre