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Revision as of 16:15, 25 August 2017

Commander Frank Alexander Garforth (8 May, 1859 – 7 November, 1901) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Garforth was the second son of W. F. W. Garforth of Wiganthorpe, Yorkshire.

Garforth was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 29 June, 1883.[1]

Garforth was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December, 1896.[2]

In July, 1900, he incurred Their Lordships' displeasure by exhibiting an absence of seamanlike precautions in use of a hawser aboard the second class battleship Conqueror, which caused several men to be injured.[3]

Garforth drowned at Bermuda. He was found to have fallen into the sea, but "no evidence exists to shew how he got there."[4]

See Also

Service Records

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Edward H. Blair
Captain of H.M.S. Pheasant
3 Oct, 1894[5][6]
Succeeded by
Herbert G. Smith
Preceded by
Charles S. Elliot
Captain of H.M.S. Hotspur
15 Sep, 1900[7][8]
Succeeded by
Robert H. Travers

Footnotes

  1. Garforth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 506.
  2. Garforth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 506.
  3. Garforth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 506.
  4. Garforth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 506.
  5. Garforth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 506.
  6. The Navy List. (March, 1896). p. 248a.
  7. Garforth Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 506.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1901). p. 266.