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- 20:53, 31 January 2011 diff hist +165 m Walter Talbot Kerr Added image of Kerr and staff
- 20:49, 31 January 2011 diff hist +1,228 N File:WKerr.jpg The Group of officers shown here comprise the Vice-Admiral in command of the Channel Squadron, Lord Walter Kerr and his staff. Lord Walter Kerr, now commanding the Channel Squadron, entered the Royal Navy in 1853. He served as Naval Cadet in the Baltic d
- 20:38, 31 January 2011 diff hist +141 m Nowell Salmon Added image of Salmon
- 20:35, 31 January 2011 diff hist +792 N File:Salmon.jpg Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, K.C.B., V.C. Sir Nowell Salmon won his V.C. in the Indian Mutiny, when serving as a lieutenant with the “Shannon Naval Brigade” in India before Lucknow. Lord Walter Kerr, of the Channel Squadron, then a midshipman, was one current
- 20:31, 31 January 2011 diff hist +31 File:Barlow.jpg Attempting to add a link to Alington current
- 20:29, 31 January 2011 diff hist +86 m File:Barlow.jpg Added minor text re flag captain
- 20:24, 31 January 2011 diff hist +45 Nm File talk:Palliser.jpg Request for new page current
- 20:22, 31 January 2011 diff hist +705 N File:Palliser.jpg Rear-Admiral H. Bury Palliser, who has been appointed to the command of the Pacific Station, is in his fifty-sixth year, He saw much service in the Russian war, both in the Baltic and in the Black Sea. Subsequently, Admiral Palliser was charged with the
- 20:18, 31 January 2011 diff hist +43 Nm File talk:Milne.jpg Request for new page current
- 20:15, 31 January 2011 diff hist 0 m File:Milne.jpg corrected minor but important typo current
- 20:13, 31 January 2011 diff hist +860 N File:Milne.jpg The veteran Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bart. G.G.B., K.C.B, now in his ninetieth year, is a very distinguished member of an old naval family. He was born in the year after Trafalgar, and entered the Royal Navy under King George the Third i
- 20:08, 31 January 2011 diff hist -27 m William Robert Kennedy Replaced existing photo, I think mine was better quality
- 20:04, 31 January 2011 diff hist +1,076 N File:Kennedy.jpg Rear-Admiral William Robert Kennedy first saw service in the Russian war, throughout which he served with the Black Sea Fleet – at the naval bombardment of Sebastopol, in the trenches with the Naval Brigade, and at the bombardment of Kinburn. After tha current
- 19:58, 31 January 2011 diff hist +164 m Hugh Pigot Williams Added image of Williams
- 19:55, 31 January 2011 diff hist +404 N File:HPWilliams.jpg Commander Hugh Pigot Williams, of the first-class battleship “Resolution” serving in the Channel squadron, entered the Royal Navy in 1871, became Lieutenant in 1880, and Commander in 1893. The Commander in a modern battleship fills one of the most ar current
- 19:51, 31 January 2011 diff hist 0 m Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford .jpg not JPG this time
- 19:47, 31 January 2011 diff hist +141 m Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford Added picture of Beresford as a captain
- 19:42, 31 January 2011 diff hist +75 N File:Beresford.jpg Captain Rt. Hon. Lord Charles Beresford, from Navy & Army Illustrated, 1896 current
- 19:40, 31 January 2011 diff hist +60 Nm File talk:Keppel.jpg Request
- 19:37, 31 January 2011 diff hist +860 N File:Keppel.jpg Admiral of the Fleet The Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, G.C.B. Sir Harry Keppel is the Grand Old Man of the British Fleet. Born in the same year with Gladstone and Tennyson, 1809, and entering the Navy at the age of twelve, he first saw active service in the Eas current
- 17:56, 31 January 2011 diff hist +618 N File:Culme-Seymour.jpg Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bart., G.C.B. is the son of one distinguished Admiral and the grandson of another; a gallant officer, who as Captain, gained the family baronetcy for winning two brilliant frigate-actions in the Napoleonic war. Sir Mich current
- 17:50, 31 January 2011 diff hist 0 m File:Colmore.jpg Correcting typo current
- 17:49, 31 January 2011 diff hist +436 N File:Colmore.jpg Commander Reginalt Blayney Colmore, Commander of the “Revenge” in 1896. He served as First Lieutenant under Captain Curzon-Howe (currently captain of the “Revenge”) in the “Cleopatra” on the North American and West Indies Station. With a lan
- 15:13, 31 January 2011 diff hist +35 m Colossus Class Battleship (1882) Still trying to get image to display
- 15:10, 31 January 2011 diff hist +113 m H.M.S. Edinburgh (1882) Added image of ship
- 15:05, 31 January 2011 diff hist +749 N File:Edinburgh.jpg HMS Edinburgh was used as a target for experimental firing in 1908. She was fitted with modern armour plates fully supported, for testing hits at oblique angles with filled armour piercing (A.P.) shell as supplied for war use. As a result of these trial current
- 15:02, 31 January 2011 diff hist 0 m Colossus Class Battleship (1882) Nope, filename was right the first time
- 14:56, 31 January 2011 diff hist 0 m Colossus Class Battleship (1882) Edited image file name
- 14:54, 31 January 2011 diff hist +106 m Colossus Class Battleship (1882) Added image from animation
- 14:51, 31 January 2011 diff hist +507 N File:Colossus 2510.JPG Frame from an animation to display the gun deck of HMS Colossus. The two turrets, each with 2 12 inch 47 ton breech loading guns were protected inside a central armoured citadel, consisting of 18 inches of compound armour backed by teak. These were the current
- 14:28, 31 January 2011 diff hist +149 m Richard James Meade, Fourth Earl of Clanwilliam Added another image of Clanwilliam
- 14:20, 31 January 2011 diff hist +1,071 N File:ClanwilliamNAI.jpg Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam, K.C.B, K.C.M.G The Earl of Clanwilliam, the distinguished officer whom Sir Nowell Salmon succeeded two years ago as Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, entered the Royal Navy in 1845 at the age of thirteen. As a lieutenant current
- 14:16, 31 January 2011 diff hist +161 m Charles James Barlow Added image of C J Barlow
- 14:13, 31 January 2011 diff hist +665 N File:Barlow.jpg Captain Charles James Barlow, D.S.O. Captain of HMS Magnificent in 1986. The caption in the Navy & Army Illustrated reads: Captain Barlow commissioned the “Magnificent” on her completion for sea on the 12th of December 1895. He has a distinguished r
- 14:07, 31 January 2011 diff hist +171 m Richard Wells Added image of Richard Wells
- 14:03, 31 January 2011 diff hist +872 N File:RWells.jpg Vice-Admiral Richard Wells, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore in 1896. The caption in the Navy & Army Illustrated reads: "The popular and capable officer in whose charge as Commander-in-Chief at the Nore are our two dockyards and naval arsenals of Chatham an current
- 13:57, 31 January 2011 diff hist +134 m Alfred Taylor Dale Added image of A T Dale
- 13:53, 31 January 2011 diff hist +716 N File:ATDale.jpg The caption for this photograph, published in the Navy & Army Illustrated in March 1896, reads "Rear-Admiral Alfred Taylor Dale, who commands the Flying Squadron, is in his fifty-sixth year, although he looks and is in spirit and activity a much younger m current
- 13:47, 31 January 2011 diff hist -119 m File:Alington.jpg Removed clumsy sentence re aide de camp. current
- 00:06, 29 January 2011 diff hist +894 N File:Alington.jpg This photograph, published 31 Jan 1896, shows Rear Admiral A. H. Alington and his Flag-Lieutenant on board HMS Magnificent. Admiral Alington was at the time the second in command of the Channel Squadron, and of the officer who holds a position under him,