Cowper Phipps Coles R.N.
Cowper Phipps Coles R.N.
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Cowper Phipps Coles R.N. | Explanation |
Son of John James Coles (1787-1865) |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
3 July 1819 | | Born (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England) |
11 March 1856 | | Married Emily Frances (1830-1876), daughter of Henry Shepherd Pearson (1776-1840) |
7 September 1870 | | Died (in HMS Captain, an experimental low freeboard, but fully masted, turret ship which he designed, and which was lost with almost all hands when she capsized in a gale off Cape Finisterre) |
Wikipedia |
He designed one of the first practicable gun turrets from ideas first developed in the Crimea |
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Date | Rank |
9 January 1846 | Lieutenant |
13 November 1854 | Commander |
27 February 1856 | Captain |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
1 May 1846 | 15 November 1847 | Lieutenant in St Vincent, commanded by Captain Alexander Milne, Portsmouth |
16 November 1847 | 19 April 1849 | Lieutenant in St Vincent, commanded by Captain Sidney Colpoys Dacres, Western squadron |
5 December 1849 | 25 January 1853 | Lieutenant in Phaeton, commanded by George Augustus Elliot, particular service |
26 May 1853 | 17 December 1853 | Lieutenant in Sybille, commanded by Captain Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot, East Indies |
18 December 1853 | 13 January 1855 | Lieutenant in Agamemnon, as flag-lieutenant to his uncle, Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons |
24 February 1855 | 13 May 1855 | Commander (2ic) in Rodney, commanded by Captain George St Vincent King, Mediterranean |
14 May 1855 | 26 February 1856 | Commander in Stromboli, Black Sea during the Russian War |
8 April 1861 | 16 July 1862 | Additional Captain in Fisgard, commanded by Commodore Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Woolwich, for spcial service |
27 June 1867 | 20 July 1867 | Additional captain in Queen Charlotte, commanded by Captain Arthur William Acland Hood, gunnery ship, and Director of the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, for service in Royal Sovereign, temporarily commissioned for the 1867 Naval review |