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Revision as of 17:17, 1 March 2011
History
In 1871 it was decided that Commander John Fisher would become Chief Torpedo Instructor at H.M.S. Excellent and educate officers in electricity and torpedoes.[1] In 1872 H.M.S. Vernon was selected to become the Royal Navy's torpedo training school as a tender to Excellent. Vernon was a fifty gun frigate designed by William Symonds which had been laid down in October, 1831 at Woolwich Royal Dockyard and launched on 1 May, 1832. She was described by Sir Charles Napier as the "most magnificent frigate ever built by any nation". She was hulked in March, 1863 and moved to Portsmouth for fitting out under the supervision of Fisher and was ready by the Spring of 1873.[2][3][4] In 1876 the Admiralty decided to separate Vernon from Excellent, and the former was commissioned in her own right on 26 April, 1876 under Captain William Arthur, with Arthur K. Wilson as Commander (Second-in-Command).[5]
Commanding Officers
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain Arthur K. Wilson, 1 January, 1889.[6]
- Captain Baldwin W. Walker, 1 November, 1893.[7]
- Captain John Durnford, 12 November, 1895.[7]
- Captain Charles G. Robinson, 2 October, 1899.[7]
- Captain George Le C. Egerton, 10 February, 1902.[7]
- Captain Henry B. Jackson, 15 February, 1904.[7]
- Captain Charles J. Briggs, 24 December, 1904.[7]
- Captain Douglas A. Gamble, 10 May, 1907.[7]
- Captain Robert S. P. Hornby, 16 October, 1908.[7]
- Captain William C. M. Nicholson, 1 November, 1911.[7]
- Captain Frederick L. Field, 10 September, 1914.[7]
- Captain Henry L. d'E. Skipwith, 16 September, 1915.[7]
- Captain Frederick C. U. V. Wentworth, (Retired), 10 July, 1918.[8]
Numbers Trained
This data is generally contained in Section I of each edition of the Annual Report of the Torpedo School'. The editor who photographed copies only occasionally caught some numbers in the introductory remarks section.
| Number trained by Vernon in total | |
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| 1905 | |
| 1906 | |
| 1907 | |
| 1908 | |
| 1909 | |
| 1910 | 2,368[9] |
| 1911 | 2,322[10] |
| 1912 | 2,801[11] |
| 1913 | |
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| 1915 | |
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| 1918 | |
| 1919 |
Radio
In 1901, the school was noted as having or being slated to receive 1 Jackson, 2 Marconi and 1 "1 to 52" radio set.[12]
Footnotes
- ↑ Mackay. Fisher of Kilverstone. p. 106.
- ↑ Sharp. Memoirs of the Life and Services of Rear-Admiral Sir William Symonds, Kt.. p. 135.
- ↑ Lyon; Winfield. The Sail & Steam Navy List. p. 104.
- ↑ Mackay. Fisher of Kilverstone. pp. 109-110.
- ↑ Mackay. Fisher of Kilverstone. p. 125.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 14 December, 1888. Issue 32569, col B, pg. 10.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 Blond. Technology and Tradition. p. 167.
- ↑ Navy List (December, 1918). p. 926.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1911, p. iv
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1911, p. iv
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912, p. iv
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1901, p. 112
Bibliography
- Blond, A. J. L. (1993). Technology and Tradition: Wireless Telegraphy and the Royal Navy 1895-1920. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Lancaster: University of Lancaster.
