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The [[United States Navy]] and [[Royal Navy]] maintained an intensive and unusual gunboat presence on the '''Yangtse River'''.

==U.S. Navy Presence & Experience==

==Royal Navy Presence & Experience==
===Senior Naval Officers, Yangtse===
Dates of appointment given:

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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Maurice Swynfen FitzMaurice|nick=Maurice S. FitzMaurice|appt=14 February, 1914<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>|end=5 August, 1914<ref>FitzMaurice Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|D8112203}} f. 148.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alfred Astley Ellison|nick=Alfred A. Ellison|appt=1 April, 1919{{NLOct19|p. 698}}<ref>Ellison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 516.</ref>|end=10 May, 1920<ref>Ellison Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.|}} f. 516.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=George Holmes Borrett|nick=George H. Borrett|appt=May, 1920<ref>Borrett Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 505.</ref>|end=October, 1921{{MackieRNSA}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Crawford Maclachlan|nick=Crawford Maclachlan|appt=17 October, 1921<ref>"Flag Commands" (Official Appointments and Notices).  ''The Times''.  Friday, 10 June, 1921.  Issue '''42743''', col G, p. 10.</ref>|end=October, 1923{{MackieRNSA}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=David Murray Anderson|nick=David M. Anderson|appt=8 August, 1923<ref>Anderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 415.</ref>|ass=16 October, 1923<ref>Anderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 415.</ref>|end=24 October, 1925<ref>Anderson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 415.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=John Ewen Cameron|nick=John E. Cameron|appt=August, 1925{{MackieRNSA}}|end=October, 1927{{MackieRNSA}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Hugh Justin Tweedie|nick=Hugh J. Tweedie|appt=19 August, 1927<ref>Tweedie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 332.</ref>|ass=24 October, 1927<ref>Tweedie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 332.</ref>|end=19 August, 1929<ref>Tweedie Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} f. 332.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Colin Kenneth MacLean|nick=Colin K. MacLean|appt=19 August, 1929<ref>MacLean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D8112229}} f. 390.</ref>|ass=22 October, 1929<ref>MacLean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D8112229}} f. 390.</ref>|end=28 October, 1931<ref>MacLean Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44.|D8112229}} f. 390.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Richard Augustus Sandys Hill|nick=Richard A. S. Hill|appt=28 August, 1931<ref>Hill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603394}} f. 146.</ref>|ass=28 October, 1931<ref>Hill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603394}} f. 146.</ref>|end=24 October, 1933<ref>Relieved that day.  Hill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/45.|D7603394}} f. 146.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Francis George Gillilan Chilton|nick=Francis G. G. Chilton|appt=October, 1933{{MackieRNSA}}|end=October, 1935{{MackieRNSA}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe|nick=Lewis G. E. Crabbe|appt=22 October, 1935<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>|end=21 December, 1937<ref>Crabbe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46/168.|D7603675}} f. 169.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=Reginald Vesey Holt|nick=Reginald V. Holt|appt=20 August, 1937<ref>Holt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/179.|D7576665}} f. 240.</ref>|ass=21 December, 1937<ref>Holt Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/49/179.|D7576665}} f. 240.</ref>|end=October, 1939{{MackieRNSA}}}}
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===Senior Naval Officers, Upper Yangtse===
Dates of appointment given:

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{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Salisbury Hamilton Simpson|nick=Salisbury H. Simpson|appt=26 December, 1924{{NLApr25|p. 289}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Paul Felix Palmer Berryman|nick=Paul F. P. Berryman|appt=1 June, 1926|end=11 December, 1928}}
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==Footnotes==
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