First Captain of HMS Dreadnought
Bacon was the first captain of the battleship Dreadnought and was closely associated with Fisher, and public revelation of exchanges between the two led to what was tantamount to Bacon's dismissal from the service in 1909.
He retired from the Navy in 1909 as director of Naval Ordnance. From 1910 to 1914 he was managing director of the Coventry Ordnance Works. He returned to active service on the outbreak of World War I.
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