Early Career
He entered the Royal Navy in 1855 and served as a midshipman aboard HMS Algiers during the Crimean War (1855) followed by the Second Opium War (1858). In 1870 he became a member of the committee investigating the effectiveness of the Whitehead torpedo, and in 1876 became commander of the new torpedo school HMS Vernon, where his duties included rewriting torpedo manuals, inventing aiming apparatus and developing mine warfare.
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