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• Errors Made in the Jutland Battle
  ...course to SSE. (i.e., away from the 5th Battle Squadron), as shown by his signal at 2.25 p.m. to his destroyers. ...high speed), it was also not possible to distinguish their movements. The signal should of course have been made by searchlight or wireless or both.
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• Guy Waterhouse Hallifax
  ...mained in {{UK-1Ajax}}, however, until being appointed to the [[Portsmouth Signal School]] for torpedo duties in April 1918.<ref>Hallifax Service Record. {{ ...Arthur J. L. Murray]]'''|'''[[Signal Division (Royal Navy)|Director of the Signal Department]]'''<br>1 Oct, 1934<ref>Hallifax Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/
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• H.M.S. Chester at the Battle of Jutland
  ...isibility having slightly decreased, perhaps to 8 miles. Having passed the signal, "Chester" followed Battle cruisers (which were then just visible) at full ...p.m. (their mean course was apparently S. by E.) to carry out C.-in-C. 's signal, proceeding at a high speed. "Chester" turned with them. The bearing and di
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• Grand Fleet
  [[File:Grand Fleet Admirals 1916.jpg|thumb|right|512px|Grand Fleet flag officers at the fleet boxing championship, 3 August, 1916. Left to right: Commodore ...or flotillas were to leave Portland until further notice. Long leave for officers and for second watches was cancelled, and the reopening of schools was post
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• Richard Hugh Loraine Bevan
  ...rbert Fitzherbert]]'''|'''[[Portsmouth Signal School|Captain of Portsmouth Signal School]]'''<br>1933<ref>Bevan Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/270.|D75766 [[Category:Royal Navy Officers Educated at Stubbington House School]]
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• Loss of H.M.S. Victoria
  ...the circumstances of the case and the impossibility of withdrawing certain officers from the Mediterranean 687 Station it is necessary that the Court Martial s ...tion that the enquiry may be neither thorough nor impartial," and that the officers of the Court, being drawn from the Mediterranean Fleet, would be too intim
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• Hugh Beaumont Robinson
  ....S.O., R.N. (26 December, 1883 &ndash; ) served in the [[Royal Navy]] as a signal officer. ...appointed to {{UK-Victory}} to attend the Long Course at the [[Portsmouth Signal School]]. He emerged in November 1909, qualified for Lieutenant (S).
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• Naval Mobilisation Department (Royal Navy)
  ...rsonnel).<br>Complement Committee questions.<br>Monthly Mobilising List of Officers.<br>Preparation for Peace Man&oelig;uvres (as regards subjects dealt with b ...o Torpedo Craft and Submarines, Mine-sweeping and Minelaying, War College, Signal Books, Supply of Provisions in War, and Naval Stores other than Coal and O
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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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• H.M.S. Dryad Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  Signal book belonging to Capt Edward Tyrrell Smith, some water-colour illustration ...to sanitary conditions at the Royal Naval College, Feb 1890. A list of the officers at the college in 1889.
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• Action of 15 February, 1918
  ...Newbury|f=p}}. She was set alight and was unable to fire the green warning signal for surface raiders. British ships that heard the gunfire assumed that it w ...o escape but did not fire a warning signal as Denson had seen two or three signal rockets. He could not send a coded radio message as he no longer had any co
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• Henry FitzRoy George Talbot
  ...as Romilly Lothian Nicholson|Douglas Nicholson]], then [[Superintendent of Signal Schools]], Talbot was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 31 December, 19 ...tober 1913, Talbot was appointed Secretary of the Committee on Eyesight of Officers.
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• Vivian Lockyer Wiles
  ...te in the [[Battle of Jutland]] when his ship infamously failed to get the signal to sail when the [[Grand Fleet]] sortied from [[Scapa Flow]]. ...low whom we shall all miss; good luck and the very best of wishes from his officers, HMS Canning, 2.4.19."<ref>[http://www.benjidog.co.uk/recollections/Captain
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• H.M.S. Benbow at the Battle of Jutland
  ==Officers== * Signal Officer: [[Edward Laurence Bruce Oliphant]]
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• Jellicoe War Orders and Dispositions 1912
  In order that Flag Officers and Captains under my command may be fully aware of the principles which wi The Flag Officers of fast Divisions must be <s>most</s> careful to use small helm, and make a
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• Jellicoe:Lieutenant
  ...his class who also had three firsts. The Admiralty decided that the five officers would be promoted according to seniority. Jellicoe, being the most junior, ...n Squadron, H.M.S. ''Alexandra'', to which he was appointed on 12 March as Signal Mate. The Commander-in-Chief at the time was Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour
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• H.M.S. Vanguard at the Battle of Jutland
  ...st of morale to justify a word of commendation of the ship's company. All officers and men did their duty thoroughly well and with a cool and cheerful demeano .... From this it would appear the enemy must have a knowledge of Vocabulary Signal Book Number 2, although it has only very recently been brought into use.
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• Transmitting Station
  * (+) The spotters and rate officers aloft not distracted by transmission details ...ndary control position in case of a primary one being damaged, but control officers aloft were trusted to hand off control if the target were obscured to them
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• Ralph Frederick Seymour
  ...pent years serving under Douglas Nicholson, a one-time [[Superintendent of Signal Schools]].<ref>Nicholson service record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42/435.}}</ref> On 2 ...{{UK-Thetis|f=t}}. On 28 November he was appointed to ''Victory'' for the Signal School. On 18 February, 1913, he completed the long course in signals. It w
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• Rowland Jerram Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  Official report regarding the loss and later recovery of HMS Iron Duke's signal logs. ...g pictures for early part of career, incuding some of HMS King Alfred, her officers and crew, and the funeral of Admiral Sir Curzon Howe at Portsmouth, 1911.
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