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==Early Life & Career==
==Early Life & Career==
As {{LieutG}} in ''King Edward VII'', Fisher exploited a gap in the rules of a pre-war prize firing to have all his light gun crews use the same single, slavishly perfected and tweaked gun mount.  It sported a super-sized telescope and the results were astounding:  crew after crew was hitting 19 of 20 rounds on a 10-foot square target at a mile.  The winning performance inspired rule changes for the coming year's competition.<ref>Usborne, ''Blast and Counter-Blast'', p. 4.</ref>
As {{LieutGRN}} in ''King Edward VII'', Fisher exploited a gap in the rules of a pre-war prize firing to have all his light gun crews use the same single, slavishly perfected and tweaked gun mount.  It sported a super-sized telescope and the results were astounding:  crew after crew was hitting 19 of 20 rounds on a 10-foot square target at a mile.  The winning performance inspired rule changes for the coming year's competition.<ref>Usborne, ''Blast and Counter-Blast'', p. 4.</ref>


Fisher was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 1 July, 1912.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28623/pages/4748 no. 28623.  p. 4748.]  2 July, 1912.</ref>
Fisher was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 1 July, 1912.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28623/pages/4748 no. 28623.  p. 4748.]  2 July, 1912.</ref>

Revision as of 23:43, 15 June 2011

Admiral SIR William Wordsworth Fisher, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., Royal Navy (26 March, 1875 – 24 June, 1937) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War.

Early Life & Career

As Template:LieutGRN in King Edward VII, Fisher exploited a gap in the rules of a pre-war prize firing to have all his light gun crews use the same single, slavishly perfected and tweaked gun mount. It sported a super-sized telescope and the results were astounding: crew after crew was hitting 19 of 20 rounds on a 10-foot square target at a mile. The winning performance inspired rule changes for the coming year's competition.[1]

Fisher was promoted to the rank of Captain on 1 July, 1912.[2]

Great War

Post-War

Fisher was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 1 November, 1922, vice Green.[3]

Assessment

Marder wrote of Fisher:

But for his death when C.-in-C., Portsmouth, he would probably have succeeded Chatfield and become, no doubt, one of the great First Sea Lords in British naval history.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Usborne, Blast and Counter-Blast, p. 4.
  2. ↑ London Gazette: no. 28623. p. 4748. 2 July, 1912.
  3. ↑ London Gazette: no. 32764. p. 7873. 7 November, 1922.
  4. ↑ Marder. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. II. p. 16.

Bibliography

  • "Admiral Sir William Fisher" (Obituaries). The Times. Saturday, 26 June, 1937. Issue 47721, col C, pg. 16.
  • "Ecclesiastical News" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Friday, 27 September, 1946. Issue 50567, col B, pg. 13.
  • "Obituary" (Obituaries). The Times. Tuesday, 2 February, 1962. Issue 56235, col E, pg. 14.
  • James, Admiral Sir William Milbourne, Royal Navy (1943). Admiral Sir William Fisher. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
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Papers

Service Record

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