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...And then he returned his gaze to the flagship and in the same voice said, "Signal, weigh anchor."</em> After taking the Senior Officers' Course from 1 March to 1 May, 1920,<ref>ADM 196/42. f. 203.</ref> on 1 Ma

==Principal Naval Transport Officers== ===Fleet Signal Officer===

...as to live in. From it one had to walk half the length of the ship to the officers' bathroom. My second was forward, all mixed up with the chain cables and a ...[M.P. 2]] mounting in fore top<br>one [[F.Q. 2]] on [[M.P. 2]] mounting on signal tower

...ted. Meanwhile, ''Audacious'' was being evacuated of all but the executive officers and forty seamen. Disembarkation was far from easy in the heavy swell. As d

According to notes made by Lawder on signal forms ([[S.—1320c.]]) ''Malaya'' turned 16 points in succession at 4.58.< ...bells were made for the Captain, the Wardroom, the Gunroom and the Warrant Officers' Mess. Admiral Jellicoe rang the bell into service by sounding off eight b

...n 8 January, 1907. On 9 September he was appointed to ''President'' for a signal course, and on 1 October was appointed to take a course at the Royal Naval [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at North Grove House School]]

...s steaming S.50ºE at 14 knots. At 14:23 {{UK-Indomitable}} intercepted a signal from {{UK-1Galatea|f=p}} heralding [[David Beatty, First Earl Beatty|Beatty ...ral [[Horace Lambert Alexander Hood|Hood]] was killed along with sixty-one officers, nine hundred and sixty-five men and five civilians. Six men survived, amo

Of the ship's chief commissioning officers, the first to be appointed was the Gunnery Officer, Lieutenant-Commander [[ ...f> On 30 March the Atlantic Fleet sailed out of Gibraltar for home. At a signal from Sir [[Michael Henry Hodges|Michael Hodges]], the Commander-in-Chief, '

Kerr was one of three officers later to achieve high rank in the Navy to be awarded the India 1857-1858 ca ...son]], and went on Half Pay. In 1878 he was appointed to the Committee on Signal Books.

...n order to find where the enemy was within the ladder. All British gunnery officers at Jutland thought that the German gunnery was better than the British earl At 14:20 ''Iron Duke'' received a signal from the Admiralty:

...h from 8 September to 19 December, and was placed second out of three flag officers in order of merit. The President, Vice-Admiral [[Alexander Edward Bethell|

...as superseded in ''Albion'' on 1 August, 1905, and on 7 November went on a Signal Course. He was appointed in command of the battleship [[H.M.S. Cæsar (189 ===Signal Committee===

...four battleships and Heaven knows how many cruisers, with four junior Flag Officers!<br><br>Where is the sense of this, even the sense of proportion? But more ...and does not mean that steam is always to be up and no leave given ever to Officers or crews. Anyhow, please take it from me that on your arrival home any mor

...was noted to be "very attentive, but sick ⅓ of the term."<ref>Record of Officers attending the Royal Naval War College. The National Archives. ADM 203/99. ...cannot pretend after this period to remember what the exact wording of the signal was, but … it was to the effect that he was to proceed to sea forthwith,

...ccuracy of naval gunfire, to exploit the new quick-firing guns, along with signal equipment. Scott recognized that competition and reward were the keys to g ...action &ndash; if a ship that cannot hit engages a ship that can hit, her officers and men will suffer great personal inconvenience.

...vy's signal book and later served as Second-in-Command of the [[Portsmouth Signal School]]. ...> he was appointed Secretary to a committee charged with revising the 1889 Signal Book "without disturbing the general arrangement, but merely to correct suc

...vice in the Navy is not recorded in his service records, as was common for officers of that era. At some point rated {{MidRN}}, in November, 1848, he was appoi ...m in the Channel Squadron. On 6 May, he was censured for inattention to a signal and for the tone of his reply to the admiral. He was censured a ''second''

...it could have rendered very efficient service." The monitor had sent the signal to the flagship that her after turret had been disabled, at 1912; at 1945 ' At 1900 on 6 August, 1898, a party of officers and men under Ensign K. M. Bennett left the ship to reoccupy the lighthouse

...eliminary DNM to enquire & prepare statement as to extent to which 129,000 Officers & Men could man existing fleet. ...DNI or DNM would be always present & that one of the three wireless expert officers[,] Captain Nicholson, Lieut [Arthur E.] Silvertop or Lieut Slee should also

...fterward, Longmore "received from the flagship {{UK-Shannon}} a peremptory signal to 'repair on board at 9 a.m.' This meant nothing less than the prospect o ..., a handshake and congratulations on my novel method of complying with his signal."</blockquote>