PERSONALITIES & SOCIAL HISTORY HMS Devastation at Malta Personalities
In Uniform.
- Admiral Sir Percy Scott The father of modern gunnery in the Royal Navy (off Site)
- Jackie Fisher -
Civilian
- William Froude (1810-1879) Pioneer of ship-model research
- Sir Charles A Parsons (1854-1931) The inventor of the steam turbine
- John Philip Holland (1841-1914) Pioneer of early Submarines
- John Penn And Sons Engine builders
- Robert Whitehead (1823-1905) The inventor of the Locomotive Torpedo
- Sir William Armstrong (1810-1900) industrialist perhaps best known for his breach loading guns.
Social Change
- The Establishment of the Royal Navy Barracks at Devonport The establishment of permanent Barracks ashore at Devonport.
- A Fleet in Being by Rudyard Kipling Being notes of two trips with the channel squadron 1898.
- Dartmouth - The shaping of a Naval Officer
