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• H.M.S. Benbow at the Battle of Jutland
  ==Officers== * Navigating Officer: [[Guy Plantagenet Bigg-Wither]]
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• Vincent Byrne Cardwell
  ...studied navigation, Cardwell found himself in {{UK-Minerva}} as first and navigating officer on 12 June 1914, and named acting Commander by the C-in-C on 10 Jan ...ff on 15 April, 1919. In August 1919, he was removed from the list of (N) officers on his request and from then to April 1920, Cardwell was put in command of
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• H.M.S. Superb at the Battle of Jutland
  ...straddled and struck by heavy projectiles. One salvo was seen by certain Officers to strike one of them (four funnels), and immediately afterwards she blew u ...but I find she was seen later by ships astern of us. About this time the Navigating Officer states he saw another large German ship, but not for long. Two of
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• H.M.S. Barham at the Battle of Jutland
  ...s considered of great importance that in a squadron flagship, an Assistant Navigating Lieutenant should be permanently borne who will be able not only to keep an ...at the end of three hours' engagement. This reflects great credit on the Officers responsible for the upkeep of the propelling machinery and of the guns' mou
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• Kenneth MacLeod
  MacLeod was appointed to the {{UK-Bacchante|f=t}} as navigating officer on 1 August, 1915.{{NLDec14|p. 279}} [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]]
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• John Henry Dacres Cunningham
  At the start of the [[Great War]], Cunningham was serving as navigating officer in {{UK-Berwick}} of the {{UK-CS|4}}, where he had been since 16 Ma ...<br>'''New Formation'''|'''[[Battle Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|Squadron Navigating Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron]]'''<br>5 Jul, 1918{{NLDec19|p. 801}}|Succ
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• Charles Searle Cardale
  ...bury]] to put questions regarding the character and trustworthiness of the Navigating Officer. ...which Rear-Admiral FitzRoy noted a "want of cleanliness & neatness below. Officers appear to be ignorant of internal arrangements and fittings of their ship."
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• Second Sea Lord
  ...(under the orders of Captain Chads) as well as Scientific Education of the Officers attached to that Establishment.<br>All matters related to Naval Artillery a ...ts, Masters, Masters' Assistants, Mates, Midshipmen, Naval Cadets, Warrant Officers.
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• Edward Buxton Kiddle
  ...ref> the son of Mary Ann Wigg and James Kiddle,<ref>Kiddle. f. 2.</ref> a navigating officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. At the age of five he was sent to a Dame sc ...found and reported aboard ''Spey'', where he found that in addition to his navigating duties he was to act as Paymaster, take charge of the Gunner, Boatswain, an
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• George Frederick Basset Edward-Collins
  Edward-Collins was appointed to {{UK-Tiger}} as Navigating Officer on 14 February, 1917 and promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 30 J ...ovey in the most favourable echelon for advancement in a list of five flag officers. Pound found the two men quite similar, but found that Edward-Collins poss
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• H.M.S. Achilles (1905)
  ...''Andromeda'']] and men from the Sheerness-Chatham barracks, numbering 333 officers and men in all, to begin her machinery acceptance trial.{{NMI|Tuesday, 19 M
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• Bureau of Equipment
  officers in the yards and stations; and it shall require for the instruments, and pr ...tments and rooms assigned for its purposes or for the use of the equipment officers in the yards and stations; and it shall recpiire for the instruments and pr
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• Edwin Veale Underhill
  ...in the year, to the elderly gunvessel [[H.M.S. Avon (1867)|''Avon'']] for navigating duties. In December 1889, he was sent to {{UK-Grappler}} for the same work ...ript letter by one of his officers, identified only as "Hal" (possibly her Navigating Commander, [[Harry Cecil Brand Pipon]]): "He is going on well, but will pro
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• Braunschweig Class Battleship (1902)
  ...y Officer, summing the dumaresq deflection, wind deflection, and so forth; officers of quarters go not give deflection orders except when in local control. Th ...being knocked out, the failure of communications with it would prompt the officers of quarters to assume local control of their groups. They would transmit r
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• Ralph Douglas Binney
  ...ting {{SubRN}}. The same month he received a £5 prize for the Junior Naval Officers' examination in French. He then studied for and was then examined in the va He qualified 13th out of 21 officers.
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• Fourth Sea Lord
  ...ssistant Paymasters.<br>Clerks.<br>Clerks.<br>Assistant Clerks.<br>Warrant Officers. | Appointments of Medical Officers.
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• Eric Sydney Brand
  ...Burgee) "{{UK-Marlborough}} and {{UK-Dominion}} close ''Iron Duke'' Flag Officers repair on board" So we duly sent our Admiral over to Tea in the seaboat an Brand served as Navigating Officer in {{UK-Pegasus}} in 1922 and then in the {{UK-Forres|f=t}} from Ja
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• Henry Francis Oliver
  ...he [[Hydrographic Department (Royal Navy)|Surveying Service]], he became a Navigating Officer of distinction - his exploits as navigator to {{AdmRN}} [[Arthur Kn ...to the {{UK-1Stork|f=t}} on 27 April, 1889, and was reappointed to her for Navigating Duties on 1 December, 1891.<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/42}}. f. 319.</ref>
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• Selborne Scheme
  ...903 whereby the [[Royal Navy]] consolidated initial entry and training for officers of the [[Military Branch (Royal Navy)|Military Branch]], [[Engineer Branch ...As Lieutenants they could then specialise in gunnery (G), torpedo (T) and navigating (N) duties as normal (and eventually signalling (S) duties). The Selborne S
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• Royal Humane Society
  There appears to be a bias to award officers a Silver medal (rather than a Bronze medal) for men such as stokers, A.Bs. |1867||Navigating Lieutenant [[John Bell Johnson]]||
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