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Revision as of 18:23, 31 August 2015

Captain Robert Warren Johnson, Royal Navy (10 May, 1868 – 22 September, 1914) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Johnson scored 1,362 marks in the competitive examinations for cadetships in the Royal Navy, coming first out of his batch of twenty.[1]

Johnson was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 April, 1891.[2]

He married on 11 July, 1906, Grace Isobel, fourth daughter of the late Algernon Paley, and had two sons and one daughter.

In December 1913, he assumed command of the first class protected cruiser Europa until being appointed to command the armoured cruiser Cressy in August 1914 and was lost in action September 22, when she was torpedoed with Hogue and Aboukir in the North Sea.

Service Records

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Edmund M. C. Cooper-Key
Captain of H.M.S. Niger
28 Feb, 1903[3]
Succeeded by
Edmund J. Prendergast
Preceded by
Sydney S. Hall
Captain of H.M.S. Hazard
May, 1905[4]
Succeeded by
Albert P. Addison
Preceded by
Charles J. Briggs
Captain of H.M.S. Vulcan
5 Jan, 1909[5]
Succeeded by
Vernon H. S. Haggard
Preceded by
Bertram S. Evans
Captain of H.M.S. Europa
16 Dec, 1913[6]
Succeeded by
Gerald W. Vivian
Preceded by
Herbert J. T. Marshall
Captain of H.M.S. Cressy
Aug, 1914[7] – 22 Sep, 1914
Succeeded by
Vessel Lost

 

Footnotes

  1. "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 27 June, 1881. Issue 30231, col E, p. 8.
  2. The London Gazette: no. 26149. p. 1870. 3 April, 1891.
  3. The Navy List. (January, 1904). p. 349.
  4. The Monthly Navy List. (December, 1905). p. 325.
  5. The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 395a.
  6. The Navy List. (January, 1914). p. 310.
  7. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.


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