Cyprian Bridge

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Sir Cyprian Arthur Bridge (born March 13, 1839 in St. John's , Newfoundland , † August 16, 1924 in Kingston Hill , Surrey ) was a British admiral and naval historian.

Live and act

His father was the Archdeacon of St. John's and Chaplain to Admiral Thomas Cochrane . Bridge went to school in England and served from 1853 in the Royal Navy , in which he served worldwide, including during the Crimean War in attacks on Kola and Kamchatka , in the Mediterranean, Indonesia, New Zealand (against the Maori ), in the Canal Fleet and in China. In 1877 he became a captain. He had specialized in artillery and was in this field in 1878/79 in various committees in the Admiralty and in the War Ministry.

He then commanded ships in the Western Pacific and the Mediterranean (the battleship HMS Colossus just put into service ) before becoming head of the newly established Admiralty's intelligence service in 1889 . In 1894 he became Rear Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Australian Squadron on the "HMS Orlando". In 1898 he became vice admiral and in 1901 commander of the China station in Yokohama on the "HMS Glory". In 1902 he played an important role in negotiating the Anglo-Japanese alliance . In 1903 he became an admiral and a year later he retired.

In 1904 he was a member of the international commission to investigate the Doggerbank incident . In 1916 he was part of the commission investigating the poor performance of the British at the Dardanelles and in Mesopotamia against Turkey.

He founded the Navy Records Society in 1893 with John Knox Laughton .

He published a lot on naval issues and commented publicly in newspaper articles, for example he was an opponent of the dreadnoughts . In 1877 he took several years (at Halbsold ) to study the emerging German Navy and published about it in the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution .

In 1899 he was knighted as the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB).

The Cyprian Bridge Island is named after him.

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • Some recollections . J. Murray, London 1918. (Memoirs)
  • British port defense policy. Admiralty paper . London 1901.
  • Nelson . The century of Trafalgar . Spottiswoode and Company, London 1905.
  • The art of naval warfare. Introductory observations . Smith, Elder and Company, London 1907.
as editor
  • together with Christopher Stone: Sea power and other studies . Smith, Elder and Company, London 1910 ( Project Gutenberg )
  • History of the Russian fleet during the reign of Peter the Great by a contemporary Englishman 1724 (Navy Records Society: No. 15). London 1899.
  • together with Christopher Stone: Sea songs and ballads . Spottiswoode and Company, London 1905.

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personal data
SURNAME Bridge, Cyprian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bridge, Cyprian Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British admiral and naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH St. John's (Newfoundland)
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1924
Place of death Kingston Hill