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Admirals of the British Navy

VII VICE-ADMIRAL TREVYLYAN DACRES WILLES NAPIER, C.B., M.V.O

Word Count: 282    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

cadet in 1880, becoming a midshipman two years later. He served in the Egyptian W

on January 1st, 1899. He served in command of a Destroyer Flotilla, and

on the Cape Station, and from 1907 to 1910 commanded the Royal Naval

n July 1st of the same year was appointed Commodore in command of the

in which he commanded the Third Light Cruiser Squadron. The Squadron had a difficult r?le to perform throughout the battle. With the First Light Cruiser Squadron it formed the screen of Sir David Beatty's Battle Cruiser Squadrons at the opening of the battle

Stanislaus (First Class),

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“IF the English are singularly incurious about their Navy, that attitude must not be thought to imply neglect. On the contrary, it is a blend of admiration, respect, and, above all, confidence, induced very largely by the Navy itself. For so long has the Navy minded its own silent business that we—otherwise so inquisitive a people—have come to look upon it as beyond examination and (normally too eager to cut open the drum and explore its resources) trustfully to leave it to its own devices, conscious that those devices are wholly in our own interests.”
1 INTRODUCTION2 I ADMIRAL SIR JOHN R. JELLICOE, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O3 II ADMIRAL SIR CECIL BURNEY, G.C.M.G., K.C.B4 III ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES EDWARD MADDEN, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O5 IV REAR-ADMIRAL RICHARD FORTESCUE PHILLIMORE, C.B., M.V.O6 V VICE-ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD H. S. BACON, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O7 VI VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN MICHAEL de ROBECK, K.C.B8 VII VICE-ADMIRAL TREVYLYAN DACRES WILLES NAPIER, C.B., M.V.O9 VIII REAR-ADMIRAL SIR OSMOND DE BEAUVOIR BROCK, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G10 IX REAR-ADMIRAL LIONEL HALSEY, C.B., C.M.G11 X VICE-ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM C. PAKENHAM, K.C.B., K.C.V.O12 XI COMMODORE GODFREY M. PAINE, C.B., M.V.O13 XII COMMODORE SIR REGINALD YORKE TYRWHITT, K.C.B., D.S.O