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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
Revision as of 18:16, 10 March 2015
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
Tower was Gunnery Officer of 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 He was then appointed as the gunnery officer in Hood when she commissioned, being superseded there on 20 August, 1920.[1]
On 16 May, 1927 he was appointed in command of the light cruiser Curacoa as Flag Captain.[2]
He was appointed in command of the battlecruiser Hood on 30 August, 1933.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
He reverted to the Retired List on 30 March, 1946.[6]
Bibliography
- "Sir Thomas Tower" (Obituaries). The Times. Tuesday, 21 July, 1964. Issue 56069, col E, pg. 12.
Service Record
- The National Archives. ADM 196/50.
| Naval Appointments | ||
| Preceded by Geoffrey Blake |
Captain of H.M.S. Kite 25 Apr, 1913[7] |
Succeeded by Reginald F. P. Maton |
| Preceded by Joseph C. W. Henley |
Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance 18 Aug, 1924[8] – 23 Mar, 1927[9] |
Succeeded by Frederick A. Buckley |
| Preceded by Cecil B. Prickett |
Captain of H.M.S. Curacoa May, 1927[10] |
Succeeded by Harold G. C. Franklin |
| Preceded by Thomas H. Binney |
Captain of H.M.S. Hood 30 Aug, 1933[11] |
Succeeded by A. Francis Pridham |
Footnotes
- ↑ Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ Taylor. The Battlecruiser Hood. p. 230.
- ↑ Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 315.
- ↑ Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 205.
- ↑ Tower Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50. f. 205.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
- ↑ Taylor. The Battlecruiser Hood. p. 230.
