Hugh Tweedie

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Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie , KCB (born April 5, 1877 in Charlton , Kent ; † August 20, 1951 ) was a British naval officer in the Royal Navy who served as Vice Admiral between 1931 and 1933, among other things, Commander-in- Chief of the Naval Forces in Africa (Commander-in- Chief, Africa Station ) and most recently from 1933 to 1935 Commander-in-Chief of the North Sea (Commander-in-Chief, The Nore ) . In 1935 he was promoted to admiral .

Life

Sea captain Tweedie became the first in command of the Monitor HMS Marshal Ney, which entered service on June 17, 1915 .

Hugh Justin Tweedie, whose father Michael Tweedie Major General of the Royal Artillery , was started on January 15, 1891 his training as a naval officer in the Royal Navy and was during his service on the battleship HMS Dreadnouhgt on 15 July 1893. Midshipman ( Midshipman ) promoted. In the following years he served on the battleship HMS Rodney and the corvette HMS Active . On July 15, 1897 he was promoted to Leutnant zur See ( Sub-Lieutenant ) , whereupon he found use on the cruiser HMS Phoebe . On March 25, 1899 he was promoted to lieutenant captain (Lieutenant) , whereupon he found uses on the destroyer HMS Flying Fish , the cruiser HMS Minerva and the unit line ship HMS Albion . After graduating from Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) in 1906 , he was transferred to the armored cruiser HMS King Alfred , the flagship of the Supreme Commander of the Naval Forces in China ( China Station ) , Admiral Arthur Moore .

On June 30, 1910 he was promoted to frigate captain (commander) . Tweedie then served on the torpedo boat destroyers HMS Bonetta , HMS Wolf and HMS Cameleon and, under the command of Reginald Tyrwhitt, on the armored cruiser HMS Good Hope . In January 1914 he became the battleship HMS Essex added, and December 31, 1914 Captain (Captain) promoted, and he followed his first command as commander of the commissioned into service on 17 June 1915 Monitor HMS Marshal Ney took over. In 1916 he became the commandant of the monitor HMS Sir Thomas Picton . After he was in command of the light cruiser HMS Champion from April to November 1917 , he served as the commander of the light cruiser HMS Castor between November 1917 and April 1920 . and was at the same time from December 1917 to May 1920 Commodore the destroyer of the Great Fleet (Commander Destroyers, Grand Fleet ) , whose Supreme Command Admiral David Beatty was. For his services during the First World War he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath on January 1, 1919 .

During the Chanak Crisis in September 1922 Tweedie commander was of the Mediterranean Fleet ( Mediterranean Fleet ) belonging battleship HMS Marlborough

After the war, Captain Tweedie was first to the Coast Guard (Coast Guard) was added and was followed between July 1922 and August 1923 Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet ( Mediterranean Fleet ) belonging battleship HMS Marlborough , during the Chanak Crisis was deployed in September 1,922th In September 1923, he replaced Captain Vernon Haggard as Director of Training and Staff Duties in the Admiralty and held this post until he was replaced by Captain Arthur Lionel Snagge in January 1926.

Hugh Tweedie, on March 2, 1926. Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) was promoted, sparked in October 1927 Rear Admiral John Ewen Cameron as commander of the naval forces on the Yangtze River (Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse) and remained in this use until its replacement by Rear Admiral Colin Kenneth MacLean in October 1929. on 24 May 1930 he was appointed Vice-Admiral (Vice Admiral) transported. In February 1931 he took over from Vice Admiral Rudolf Burmester as Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces in Africa (Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station ) , which was stationed in Simon's Town in Table Bay . He held this position until his replacement by Vice Admiral Edward Evans in March 1933.

Tweedie last replaced Admiral Reginald Tyrwhitt in May 1933 as commander -in-chief of the North Sea naval forces stationed in Chatham (Commander-in-Chief, The Nore ) and held this post until he was replaced again in December 1935 by Admiral Edward Evans. In this use he was beaten on June 3, 1933 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and has since had the suffix "Sir". On May 8, 1935, he was finally promoted to admiral . He lived in Wraxall and was also Deputy Lieutenant (DL) and Justice of the Peace (JP) of Somerset County .

publication

  • The story of a naval life , autobiography, Rich & Cowan, London 1939

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26921, HMSO, London, December 21, 1897, p. 7648 ( PDF , accessed December 27, 2018, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 28388, HMSO, London, June 24, 1910, p. 4478 ( PDF , accessed December 27, 2018, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29024, HMSO, London, January 1, 1915, p. 6 ( PDF , accessed December 27, 2018, English).
  4. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 218
  5. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 218
  6. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 168
  7. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 31099, HMSO, London, January 1, 1919, p. 106 ( PDF , accessed December 27, 2018, English).
  8. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 70
  9. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 30
  10. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 135
  11. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 119
  12. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 51
  13. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
  14. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 33946, HMSO, London, June 2, 1933, p. 3801 ( PDF , accessed December 26, 2018, English).
personal data
SURNAME Tweedie, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tweedie, Hugh Justin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British admiral
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlton , Kent
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1951