Early Life and Naval Career
Godfrey-Faussett, a descendant of the archaeologist Rev. Bryan Faussett, was born in Waterford. He began his Royal Navy training aboard HMS Britannia in 1877, and subsequently became a midshipman in 1879 and a lieutenant in 1887. Aside from studies at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from 1883 to 1884, he was at sea for much of this time in both home and foreign waters. Shortly after his promotion to lieutenant, he transferred to HMS Dolphin, but contracted a serious fever and was sent home from Port Said. He returned to the West Indies in 1889, after a year's convalescence, aboard HMS Bellerophon.
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