Nickname
Admiral Wilson's nickname of 'Tug' reputedly comes from an incident when he repeatedly ordered a battleship to try to come alongside, and in exasperation offered her Captain a 'Tug' to assist, subsequently a number of people with the surname Wilson have been given this nickname, e.g. Ebin 'Tug' Wilson, George Archer 'Tug' Wilson, Kenneth Leon 'Tug' Wilson, Lester Wilbur 'Tug' Wilson, Thomas Harold "Tom" 'Tug' Wilson, and Captain Roi Edgerton 'Tug' Wilson
Read more about this topic: Arthur Wilson (Royal Navy Officer)
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)