Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon
Reginald Bacon was no Drake, Hawke or Nelson, yet in a naval career that spanned four decades of critical change for the Royal Navy, he was a pivotal figure among Admiral \u2018Jacky\u2019 Fisher\u2019s \u2018five best brains in the navy\u2019 who revolutionised Britain\u2019s naval warfighting capability between 1900 and the end of the First World War.This new biography traces Bacon\u2019s remarkable career from his service as a fifteen-year-old Midshipman aboard Sir Geoffrey Hornby\u2019s Mediterranean flagship to his three years in command of the Dover Patrol. A mine and torpedo specialist, he was by turns the father of the Submarine Service, the first captain of HMS Dreadnought and Director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty before leaving the Royal Navy for five years to run Coventry Ordnance Works whose fortunes he
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Driving Change in Naval Technology 1900\u20131918
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Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon
Reginald Bacon was no Drake, Hawke or Nelson, yet in a naval career that spanned four decades of critical change for the Royal Navy, he was a pivotal figure among Admiral \u2018Jacky\u2019 Fisher\u2019s \u2018five best brains in the navy\u2019 who revolutionised Britain\u2019s naval warfighting capability between 1900 and the end of the First World War.This new biography traces Bacon\u2019s remarkable career from his service as a fifteen-year-old Midshipman aboard Sir Geoffrey Hornby\u2019s Mediterranean flagship to his three years in command of the Dover Patrol. A mine and torpedo specialist, he was by turns the father of the Submarine Service, the first captain of HMS Dreadnought and Director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty before leaving the Royal Navy for five years to run Coventry Ordnance Works whose fortunes he
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Driving Change in Naval Technology 1900\u20131918
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Reginald Bacon was no Drake, Hawke or Nelson, yet in a naval career that spanned four decades of critical change for the Royal Navy, he was a pivotal figure among Admiral \u2018Jacky\u2019 Fisher\u2019s \u2018five best brains in the navy\u2019 who revolutionised Britain\u2019s naval warfighting capability between 1900 and the end of the First World War.This new biography traces Bacon\u2019s remarkable career from his service as a fifteen-year-old Midshipman aboard Sir Geoffrey Hornby\u2019s Mediterranean flagship to his three years in command of the Dover Patrol. A mine and torpedo specialist, he was by turns the father of the Submarine Service, the first captain of HMS Dreadnought and Director of Naval Ordnance at the Admiralty before leaving the Royal Navy for five years to run Coventry Ordnance Works whose fortunes he
Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon
Driving Change in Naval Technology 1900\u20131918
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format | hardback |
Language | english |
type | book |
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