Aim Corrector Committee (Royal Navy)
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On 25 September, 1905, the Admiralty set up a committee to perform trials of Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen's two observer rangefinder, with testing of the equipment being undertaken aboard first a small boat from H.M.S. Jupiter and then from the battleship itself.[1]
Members
- Vice-Admiral Alfred A. C. Parr, 8 October, 1905 – 28 February, 1906.[2]
- Captain Bernard Currey, 25 November, 1905 – 3 February, 1906.[3][4]
- Captain Frederick Tower Hamilton[1]
- Captain Herbert A. Warren[1]
- Lieutenant Ralph Eliot[1]
- Commander Francis H. Mitchell (secretary)[1]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Superannuation Act, 1887: Return, for the Year ended 31st March 1906, of the Army and Navy Officers permitted, under Rule 2 of the Regulations drawn up under Section 6 of "The Supperannuation Act, 1887," to hold Civil Employment of Profit under Public Departments. H.C. 292, 1906.
- List of Committees, 1906, Admiralty paper of 31 December, 1906 at The National Archives. ADM 1/7782.
- Sumida, Jon Tetsuro, Editor (1984). The Pollen Papers: The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford Pollen, 1901-1916. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. ISBN 0049421824. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
