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Admirals of the British Navy

IX REAR-ADMIRAL LIONEL HALSEY, C.B., C.M.G

Word Count: 321    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

det he served in the "Agincourt," Flag-ship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Edmund R. Fremantle, then second in command of the Channel

Battery at Cove Hill Redoubt. He was also executive Officer to Captain Lambton (now Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux) towards the en

he first capital ship built at the charge of a Dominion Government. In the following year Captain Halsey receiv

of Jutland, Admiral Jellicoe wrote as follows:-"My special thanks are due to Commodore Lionel Halsey, C.M.G., the Captain of the Fleet, who also assists me in the working of the Fleet at sea, and

mber of the same year, and Third Sea Lord in May, 1917. He is a Commander of the Legio

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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