20th Century

Mar 1901

Alan Boisragon becomes the Captain Superintendent of the Shanghai Municipal Police

Location: Shanghai

Mar 1901

Admiral Wilson becomes the Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron

Location: Britain

Apr 1901

Alfred Gaselee is appointed to command the Lucknow district in Bengal

Location: India

Apr 18, 1901

Commander Kit Cradock is promoted to Captain

Location: China

May 1901

Captain Sackville Carden is given command of HMS Immortalité. She is the seagoing tender to the Wildfire, which is the flagship at Sheerness.

Location: Britain

May 1901

Lieutenant Keyes is given command of HMS Bat at Devonport

Location: Plymouth

May 1901

HMS Racoon returns to Britain

Location: Britain

May 15, 1901

Alfred Carpenter is rated as an Acting Sub-Lieutenant

Location: Britain

May 22, 1901

Captain Beatty finally marries Ethel. They had first met after his return from the Anglo-Sudanese War, but at the time she had already been married.

Location: Britain

May 24, 1901

Rear-Admiral Wilson is promoted to Vice-Admiral

Location: Britain

May 30, 1901

A magistrate sends a 12 year old boy to the Training Ship Empress on the recommendation of the Inspector of the Poor

Location: Clyde

Jun 05, 1901

A former Clio boy is brought before the magistrates charged with theft.

Jun 21, 1901

Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskins dies in his home in Dorking

Location: Britain

Jul 06, 1901

HMS Racoon is paid off

Location: Britain

Jul 17, 1901

HMS Cornwallis is launched from the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company in London an then sent to the Mediterranean

Location: Britain

Aug 1901

HMS Centurion arrives back in Britain and is paid off

Location: Britain

Aug 01, 1901

HMS Alacrity arrives back in Britain

Location: Britain

Sep 09, 1901

Commander Horace Hood transferred to Admiral Lord Charles Beresford's flagship HMS Ramillies in the Mediterranean

Location: Mediterranean

Oct 01, 1901

Brilliant was commissioned at Portsmouth by Captain Hugh Pigot Williams for service with the Cruiser Squadron

Location: Portsmouth

Nov 01, 1901

Admiral Markham was made Commander-in-Chief of The Nore

Location: Britain

Nov 29, 1901

Rawlinson is knighted as a Companion of the Order of the Bath

Location: Britain

1902

Lord Fisher created a committee to improve gunnery in the fleet. This committee consisted of:

• Captain Charles Cross
• Commander Murray Aynesley
• Commander Hood
• Commander Leveson

Location: Britain

1902

HMS Dee is sold out of service

Location: Britain

1902

HMS Achilles is renamed Hibernia

Location: Britain

Jan 01, 1902

Commander John de Robeck is promoted to Captain

Location: Britain

Jan 1902

Lieutenant Keyes transfers to HMS Falcon, and takes his crew with him

Location: Plymouth

1902

Sir Joseph Hooker is awarded Pour le Mérite from the Kingdom of Prussia by Kiaser Willhelm II

Location: Britain

1902

Captain Bourchier retires from his post as the Captain of the Training Ship Exmouth. He had been the ship's Captain for as long as it has been a training ship, having previously been the captain of the Training Ship Goliath that proceeded it.

Location: Grays

1902

Rowland Bourke moves to Canada

Location: Canada

1902

George Bradford joins the Royal Navy

Location: Britain

1902

Geoffrey White is appointed to the armoured cruiser HMS Aboukir in the Mediterranean as a Naval Cadet

Location: Mediterranean

Jan 30, 1902

An alliance between Britain and Japan negotiated by Consul-General Claude MacDonald and then signed in London by the British foreign secretary Lord Lansdowne and Japanese diplomat Hayashi Tadasu.

This alliance ended the British policy of "Splendid Isolation" was there to protect both of these Great Powers against their mutual adversary, Russia.

Location: Japan

Feb 1902

Captain John Jellicoe becomes Naval Assistant to Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy

Location: Britain

Feb 1902

Admiral Harry Rawson is appointed Governor of New South Wales. He is the first naval officer since William Bligh.

Location: Australia

Mar 22, 1902

SMS Frauenlob is launched at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen

Location: Germany

Mar 24, 1902

Captain Cradock is given command of HMS Andromeda in the Mediterranean

Location: Mediterranean

Mar 28, 1902

Two stokers from HMS Northumberland are sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for what is described only as a "disgraceful crime"

Location: Portsmouth

Apr 1902

HMS Orion becomes a depot-ship for torpedo-boats in Malta

Location: Malta

Apr 08, 1902

HMS Vengeance is commissioned in Portsmouth and assigned to the the Mediterranean Fleet

Location: Portsmouth

May 1902

Lieutenant Keyes transfers to HMS Sprightly, and takes his crew with him

Location: Plymouth

May 1902

HMS Hermione is posted to the Mediterranean station.

Location: Mediterranean

May 02, 1902

Two boys are sent to the Training Ship Clio for not attending school

Location: Menai Straits

May 28, 1902

HMS Theseus is paid off and placed in the Medway reserve

Location: Chatham

Jun 02, 1902

Captain Beatty is given command of HMS Juno after recovering from the injuries that he had suffered during the Boxer Rebellion. HMS Juno is initially attached to the Channel Fleet, but is then transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet.

Location: Britain

Jun 16, 1902

Admiral Kerr is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet shortly before being replaced by Admiral Fisher as the First Naval Lord

Location: Britain

Jun 26, 1902

Captain Cradock is knighted as a Companion of the Order of the Bath

Location: Britain

Jul 1902

Captain John de Robeck is given command of HMS Warrior at Portsmouth. At the time she was being used as a depot ship.

Location: Portsmouth

Jul 1902

Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker raises his flag on HMS Andromeda with Captain Cradock as his flag captain

Location: Britain

Jul 15, 1902

Sir Francis Grenfell is made Baron Grenfell, of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan

Location: Britain

Jul 16, 1902

HMS Temeraire is commissioned as the depot ship of the Devonport Fleet Reserve

Location: Plymouth

Jul 18, 1902

Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar dies

Location: Zanzibar

Jul 29, 1902

The annual prize giving on the Training Ship Empress is witnessed by a large group.

Location: Clyde

Aug 1902

Acting Sub-Lieutenant Carpenter is posted to HMS Havock for the Coronation Fleet Review

Location: Britain

Aug 15, 1902

Admiral Kerr is receives his insignia as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert while it is moored off Cowes

Location: Britain

Sep 15, 1902

Cadet Harrison is posted to HMS Mars in the channel squadron

Location: Britain

Sep 24, 1902

A boy is sent to the Training Ship Clio after being found drunk in the street.

Location: Menai Straits

Oct 01, 1902

HMS Temeraire becomes the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth

Location: Plymouth

Oct 1902

Archibald Berkeley Milne becomes Naval Aide-de-Camp

Location: Britain

Oct 1902

Acting Sub-Lieutenant Carpenter is posted to HMS Cleopatra and confirmed as a Sub-Lieutenant

Location: Britain

Oct 16, 1902

Captain Sackville Carden is appointed in command of the battleship HMS Magnificent. This ship was the flagship to rear-admiral Assheton Curzon-Howe, who was second in command of the Channel Squadron. He took her to visit Gibraltar and Tetuan the following week.

Location: Britain

Oct 16, 1902

Captain Sturdee is given command of HMS Minerva

Location: Britain

Oct 25, 1902

A boy is sent to the Training Ship Clio after being found to be unmanageable

Location: Menai Straits

Nov 15, 1902

HMS St. George is paid off and her crew transferred to HMS Good Hope

Location: Britain

Dec 19, 1902

Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker and Captain Cradock transfer to HMS Bacchaante

Location: Britain

1903

Archibald Smith gains his master's certificate while serving with the New Zealand Shipping Company

Location: Britain

Jan 01, 1903

Lieutenant Reginald Tyrwhitt is promoted to Commander, and then transfers to HMS Aurora that same year

Location: Britain

Jan 07, 1903

The magistrates court at Chester notes the good work that the Training Ship Clio had been doing with the delinquent boys that had been sent there, and would continue to send more.

Location: Menai Straits

Feb 17, 1903

SMS Frauenlob is commissioned

Location: Germany

Apr 01, 1903

Rawlinson is promoted to Colonel and made the commandant of the Army Staff College. During his time at the college he reformed and modernised the curriculum.

Location: Britain

Apr 25, 1903

HMS Canopus is paid off into reserve in Portsmouth, and then taken to Birkenhead to be refitted.

Location: Portsmouth

Apr 28, 1903

HMS Phaeton is paid off and decommissioned as a sea-going warship. She is then used for harbour service at Devonport.

Location: Plymouth

May 1903

Erskine Childers publishes The Riddle of the Sands. It becomes extremely popular, and helps to shift the public from viewing France and Britains major adversary to the danger that could come from the relatively new power of Imperial Germany.

Location: Britain

May 25, 1903

It is discovered that the Training Ship Clio had bough a set of disease infected blankets. Luckily most had not yet been issued when this was discovered.

Location: Menai Straits

Jun 02, 1903

Captain Sir Christopher Cradock is made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order Cradock joins the Royal Victorian Order

Location: Britain

Jun 15, 1903

Major Wissmann dies in a hunting accident

Location: Germany