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'''Norman McCrea Lewis''', ( – ) served in the [[Royal Navy]].
{{CommRN}} (retired) '''Norman McCrea Lewis''', (2 March, 1875 – ) served in the [[Royal Navy]].


==Life & Career==
==Life & Career==
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Lewis was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 31 December, 1896.<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>
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Appointed as first officer in the {{UK-Archer|f=t}} on 30 August, 1900, Lewis would have a wretched year 1903 in her, in which £53 went missing from her canteen fund early in the year and two prisoners escaped toward the end of the year.  Vice-Admiral Fanshawe wrote two expressions of censure for Lewis, which Lewis petitioned to have modified in 1904.  This request was refused.<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>
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Lewis was promoted to the rank of {{LCommRN}} on 31 December, 1904.<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>
 
Lewis was placed on the Retired List as unfit for further service due to an injury to his leg and "very defective vision" on 1 March, 1905.  The following year, He would become a Commander Instructor, R.N.V.R..<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>
 
He was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 2 March, 1915 while serving in the Great War training new Air Service mechanics.  He woudl later serve again in {{UK-Magnificent}} and even assume command when she paid off in May 1916.  He would manage Boom Defences for a time before being placed in command of a "Q" ship whose loss he survived after she was torpedoed by {{DE-U62}}.<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>
 
On 21 December 1918 he was to revert to the Retired List upon the expiration of a two month leave, which transpired on 3 February, 1919.<ref>Lewis Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/57.|}} f. 59.</ref>
 
==See Also==
==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
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Latest revision as of 15:33, 7 April 2022

Commander (retired) Norman McCrea Lewis, (2 March, 1875 – ) served in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

The son of Captain E. Lewis.[1]

Lewis was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 31 December, 1896.[2]

Appointed as first officer in the destroyer Archer on 30 August, 1900, Lewis would have a wretched year 1903 in her, in which £53 went missing from her canteen fund early in the year and two prisoners escaped toward the end of the year. Vice-Admiral Fanshawe wrote two expressions of censure for Lewis, which Lewis petitioned to have modified in 1904. This request was refused.[3]

Lewis was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 31 December, 1904.[4]

Lewis was placed on the Retired List as unfit for further service due to an injury to his leg and "very defective vision" on 1 March, 1905. The following year, He would become a Commander Instructor, R.N.V.R..[5]

He was promoted to the rank of Commander on 2 March, 1915 while serving in the Great War training new Air Service mechanics. He woudl later serve again in Magnificent and even assume command when she paid off in May 1916. He would manage Boom Defences for a time before being placed in command of a "Q" ship whose loss he survived after she was torpedoed by U 62.[6]

On 21 December 1918 he was to revert to the Retired List upon the expiration of a two month leave, which transpired on 3 February, 1919.[7]

See Also

Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Percival H. Warleigh
Captain of H.M.S. Magnificent
May, 1916[8] – 27 Oct, 1916[9]
Succeeded by
George W. Gubbins
Preceded by
Edmund L. B. Lockyer
Captain of H.M.S. Q.12
14 Jan, 1917[10] – 30 Apr, 1917[11]
Succeeded by
Vessel Lost

Footnotes

  1. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  2. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  3. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  4. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  5. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  6. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  7. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  8. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  9. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  10. Lewis Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/57. f. 59.
  11. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 87.