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Vice-Admiral SIR Francis Thomas Butler Tower, K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy (21 December, 1885 – 19 July, 1964) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in London, the son of F. F. Tower, Esq., B.A..

Tower served in the battleship Canopus and the armoured cruiser Good Hope before being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 15 April, 1906.

He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 15 April, 1914. Early in the Great War, he was at H.M.S. Excellent, working in the Experimental Works, and was in command of her tender, Kite from June 1913 to 12 April, 1915.[1]

Tower served as Gunnery Officer in Barham from 15 April, 1915 to 21 November, 1918. He was then appointed as the gunnery officer in Hood when she commissioned, being superseded there on 20 August, 1920.[2]

On 16 May, 1927 he was appointed in command of the light cruiser Curacoa as Flag Captain.[3]

He was appointed in command of the battlecruiser Hood on 30 August, 1933.[4]

Tower was placed on the Retired List on 29 June, 1939. He was reactivated later that very year for a short stint on the Landing Craft Committee.[5]

On 8 January, 1945, Tower was appointed to serve in the rank of Rear Admiral as Flag Officer in Command, Southampton, vice James Murray Pipon.[6]

He reverted to the Retired List on 30 March, 1946.[7]

Bibliography

  • "Sir Thomas Tower" (Obituaries). The Times. Tuesday, 21 July, 1964. Issue 56069, col E, pg. 12.

Service Record

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Geoffrey Blake
Captain of H.M.S. Kite
25 Apr, 1913[8] – 12 Apr, 1915[9]
Succeeded by
Reginald F. P. Maton
Preceded by
Alan R. Dewar
Fleet Gunnery Officer, Atlantic Fleet
15 Aug, 1922[10]
Succeeded by
Eric W. W. Ling
Preceded by
Julian F. C. Patterson
Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance
18 Aug, 1924[11] – 23 Mar, 1927[12]
Succeeded by
Alan R. Dewar
Preceded by
Douglas B. Le Mottée
Captain of H.M.S. Vindictive
16 May, 1927[13] – 16 May, 1929
Succeeded by
Lancelot E. Holland
Preceded by
Cecil B. Prickett
Captain of H.M.S. Curacoa
16 May, 1927[14][15] – 16 May, 1929[16]
Succeeded by
Harold G. C. Franklin
Preceded by
Stephen St. L. Moore
Captain of Chatham Gunnery School
10 Jun, 1929 – 30 Mar, 1931
Succeeded by
Arthur N. Dowding
Preceded by
Thomas H. Binney
Captain of H.M.S. Hood
30 Aug, 1933[17] – 1 Feb, 1936[18]
Succeeded by
A. Francis Pridham
Preceded by
St. Aubyn B. Wake
Director of Naval Equipment
10 Dec, 1936[19] – 27 Aug, 1939[20]
Succeeded by
James W. S. Dorling
Preceded by
James M. Pipon
Flag Officer in Command, Southampton
8 Jan, 1945
Succeeded by
?

Footnotes

  1. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/69. Unnumbered folio.
  2. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/69. Unnumbered folio.
  3. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/69. Unnumbered folio.
  4. Taylor. The Battlecruiser Hood. p. 230.
  5. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/69. Unnumbered folio.
  6. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/69. Unnumbered folio.
  7. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/69. Unnumbered folio.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 315.
  9. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
  10. The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 796.
  11. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 205.
  12. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 205.
  13. The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 282a.
  14. The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 229.
  15. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. ?.
  16. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. ?.
  17. The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 247.
  18. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. ?.
  19. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/67. f. ?.
  20. Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/67. f. ?.