1785
Lieutenant
Appointed Lieutenant aboard the Hebe, 40 gun frigate
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Appointed Lieutenant aboard the Hebe, 40 gun frigate
Takes command of HMS Agamemnon during war with Revolutionary France.
Samuel Bentham recommends installation of Brunel's block-making machinery at Portsmouth Dockyard.
The first series of Brunel's machines is installed to manufacture medium-sized pulley blocks.
A second series of Brunel's machines is installed to manufacture smaller pulley blocks.
Hoists his flag in HMS Victory for Mediterranean command.
A third series of machines for large pulley blocks completes the main block-making installation.
Sails from Portsmouth to take command off Cadiz.
Leaves Portsmouth to take command before Trafalgar.
Brings HMS Victory home after the battle.
The block-making plant is judged capable of meeting the Royal Navy's full requirement for pulley blocks.
The Portsmouth Block Mills produce about one hundred and thirty thousand pulley blocks using Brunel's mechanised system.
Fisher takes command of HMS Excellent, strengthening his association with naval gunnery and technical training.
Fisher becomes Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.
Fisher becomes Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth.
Fisher sets out proposals for faster, heavily armed ships and other reforms in his Naval Necessities memorandum.
On its return to Britain the expeditions reception was initially muted. Markham was present to meet the ship in Portsmouth when Discovery docked there on 10 September 1904, but no dignitaries greeted the party when it arrived in London a few days later
HMS Dreadnought is laid down at Portsmouth under the naval construction programme associated with Fisher's reforms.
HMS Dreadnought is launched, rapidly transforming international battleship design and naval competition.
HMS Dreadnought enters commission after an exceptionally rapid construction programme.
HMS Invincible enters Home Fleet service, embodying Fisher's fast heavily armed cruiser concept.
Oversees the naval programme as HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched.
Advances construction of a new oil-fired battleship class.
Birth of James Callaghan
Departs on HMS Vanguard for South Africa to help Jan Smuts against the Nationalist Party
Embarks on the HMS Vanguard for royal state visit to South Africa & Rhodesia. Elizabeth IIs 1st trip outside the British Isles
Commands the amphibious shipping for the campaign.
Aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible set sail from Portsmouth
The aircraft carriers HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible leave Portsmouth with escorts as leading elements of the task force whose mobilization Leach had urged.
Guides Portsmouth to the top flight
Relegated after just one season back among the elite, Ball is sacked in for failing to mount a serious promotion challenge after having a serious personality clash with Portmsouths then chairman Jim Gregory
Appointed manager of Portsmouth, 2nd time
Plays a final Who concert before his death.
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