Ernest Leslie Cardale

Captain (retired) Ernest Leslie Cardale (16 September, 1879 – ) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in Stoke, Devon the son of Admiral Charles Searle Cardale.

On 3 August, 1898, he was ordered home from service in the Pacific aboard the armoured cruiser Imperieuse to take up an appointment to the Training Squadron, arriving in England on 15 October. He served in the screw frigate Raleigh from 5 November, 1898 until 15 September, 1899.

Appointed to the Vindictive in the Mediterranean on 4 July, 1900, Cardale was re-appointed to the ship, additional upon his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December, 1901.

Cardale was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 31 December, 1909.

On 23 September 1912, he was admitted to Plymouth Hospital to be treated for an inguinal hernia on the right side. He was declared fit on 14 December.

Great War

Cardale was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June, 1915.

Cardale married Katherine Gwen Mudge on 14 July, 1915 at Plympton St. Mary, in Devon.

Cardale was tried by a Court Martial on 22 February, 1917 for stranding Crusader and was acquitted. On 19 May, 1917 there was a collision between Nugent and Myngs, resulting in Cardale being relieved in command of Nugent in June and being unemployed for about a month until his appointment in command of the comparatively modest Beagle Class destroyer H.M.S. Harpy on 12 July, 1917. Misfortune of some kind not very legible visited him again in 1917, when there was another Court Martial in Blenheim on a charge of "negligently hazarding" Harpy and another ship by default. It appears that this charge was proved. On the strength of favorable reports from Captain Withers ("Good commander of a T.B.D. division") and Sparks ("sorry to lose him, etc"), Cardale stayed in Harpy until being appointed in command of Rival on 5 November, 1918.

Post-War

Cardale remained in command of Rival through the end of the war and as the fleet was transitioning to a smaller post-war incarnation. As was so often the case, he found himself in command of several unnamed destroyers being reduced to reserve in early 1919.

Cardale transition to command of Scout on 13 November, 1919 (or Taurus, according to the Navy Lists) as he continued his oversight of the destroyers passing into reserve.

Cardale was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Captain on 3 May, 1925.

See Also

• Service Records
• Wikipedia

Naval Appointments
Preceded by Frederick H. Hallowes	Captain of H.M.S. Hasty 28 May, 1906 – 4 Sep, 1906	Succeeded by Wilfred A. Thompson
Preceded by William Cooper	Captain of H.M.S. Teazer 4 Sep, 1906 – c. Mar, 1909	Succeeded by Stuart D. Blair
Preceded by Reginald E. Marcon	Captain of H.M.S. Leopard 30 Apr, 1909 – 4 Jun, 1909	Succeeded by Hugh Hamilton-Gordon
Preceded by Geoffrey Mackworth	Captain of H.M.S. Arab 9 Jun, 1909 – 8 Feb, 1910	Succeeded by Austin C. Ackland
Preceded by Loftus W. Jones	Captain of H.M.S. Chelmer 8 Feb, 1910 – 21 Apr, 1910	Succeeded by Gerald C. Dickens
Preceded by Thomas C. H. Williams	Captain of H.M.S. Syren 10 Aug, 1915 – 11 Nov, 1916	Succeeded by Frank A. C. Baker
Preceded by Edward R. G. R. Evans	Captain of H.M.S. Crusader 11 Nov, 1916 – 16 Mar, 1917	Succeeded by Maurice C. Bomford
Preceded by New Command	Captain of H.M.S. Nugent 16 Mar, 1917 – 13 Jun, 1917	Succeeded by Guy L. Warren
Preceded by Wellwood G. C. Maxwell	Captain of H.M.S. Harpy 12 Jul, 1917 – 5 Nov, 1918	Succeeded by Valentine Searles-Wood
Preceded by Bryan F. Adams	Captain of H.M.S. Rival 5 Nov, 1918 – 3 Apr, 1919	Succeeded by Alfred E. Evans
Preceded by Alfred E. Evans	Captain of H.M.S. Michael 3 Apr, 1919 – c. Nov, 1919	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by John I. Hallett	Captain of H.M.S. Taurus 13 Nov, 1919	Succeeded by Ernest L. Cardale
Preceded by Norman A. G. Ohlenschlager	Captain of H.M.S. Scout 13 Nov, 1919 – 21 Jun, 1920	Succeeded by Edmund F. FitzGerald
Preceded by Ernest L. Cardale	Captain of H.M.S. Taurus 21 Jun, 1920 – 30 Dec, 1921	Succeeded by John Fawcett