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Opened in 1873, in buildings constructed by Charles II to house retired sailors, the Royal Naval College was founded with the aim of providing officers with the highest possible scientific instruction in all branches of study bearing upon their profession. For more than 125 years it taught officers ranging in rank from Sub Lieutenants to Vice Admiral, providing the technical instruction that equipped a corps of naval architects to build some of the most advanced warships in the world and in later years, trained the Royal Navys nuclear engineers. Despite the Colleges undoubted contribution, towards both the education of Royal Navy personnel, and technical research more broadly, this is the first book to address the history of the institution from its Victorian roots to its closure in the aftermath of the Cold War. Taking a chronological approach, the book traces the history of the College from its establishment in 1873, a period during which technical training for a steam-powered navy was increasingly vital. It then shows how, during the First World War, academic staff at the College made a vital contribution to the development of naval weapons systems, and its medical school initiated a vaccine production programme that later produced major improvements in the public health of the nation. During the Second World War, damaged by enemy action that set Londons docklands ablaze, the College provided the first taste of naval life for more than 27,000 men and women called from civilian life to serve on shore and at sea. Later chapters conclude with an exploration of the Colleges post-war role, focusing particularly on the establishment in 1959 of the Department of Nuclear Science and Technology (DNST) which ran a nuclear reactor on site until the College was closed in 1998. Both as a history of the Royal Naval College itself, and as an exploration of the Navys attitude toward research and education, this book provides a fascinating insight into what is arguably one of Britains most significant educational establishments.
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WISDOM AND WAR
Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
Series editors:
Professor Greg Kennedy, Dr Tim Benbow and Dr Jon Robb-Webb, Defence Studies Department, Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK
The Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series is the publishing platform of the Corbett Centre. Drawing on the expertise and wider networks of the Defence Studies Department of Kings College London, and based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the UK Defence Academy, the Corbett Centre is already a leading centre for academic expertise and education in maritime and naval studies. It enjoys close links with several other institutions, both academic and governmental, that have an interest in maritime matters, including the Developments, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC), the Naval Staff of the Ministry of Defence and the Naval Historical Branch.
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Wisdom and War
The Royal Naval College Greenwich 18731998
HARRY DICKINSON
Kings College London, UK
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Dickinson, Harry W., 1949
Wisdom and war:the Royal Naval College Greenwich 18731998. (Corbett Centre for
Maritime Policy Studies series)
1. Royal Naval College (Great Britain)History. 2. Naval educationGreat BritainHistory
19th century. 3. Naval educationGreat BritainHistory20th century.
I. Title II. Series
359.0071142162dc23
Wisdom and war:the Royal Naval College Greenwich 18731998. (Corbett Centre for
Maritime Policy Studies series)
1. Royal Naval College (Great Britain)History. 2. Naval educationGreat BritainHistory
19th century. 3. Naval educationGreat BritainHistory20th century.
I. Title II. Series
359.0071142162dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dickinson, Harry W., 1949
Wisdom and war:the Royal Naval College Greenwich 1873-1998/Harry Dickinson.
p. cm. (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-4331-5 (hbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4094-4332-2 (ebook) 1.
Royal Naval College GreenwichHistory. 2. Naval educationGreat BritainHistory. 3.
Great Britain. Royal NavyOfficersTraining ofHistory. I. Title. II. Title: Royal Naval
College Greenwich 18731998.
V520.L1D53 2012
359.0071142162dc23
Wisdom and war:the Royal Naval College Greenwich 1873-1998/Harry Dickinson.
p. cm. (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-4331-5 (hbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4094-4332-2 (ebook) 1.
Royal Naval College GreenwichHistory. 2. Naval educationGreat BritainHistory. 3.
Great Britain. Royal NavyOfficersTraining ofHistory. I. Title. II. Title: Royal Naval
College Greenwich 18731998.
V520.L1D53 2012
359.0071142162dc23
2011043440
ISBN 978-1-409-44331-5 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-315-54705-3 (ebk)
ISBN 978-1-315-54705-3 (ebk)
Contents
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Acknowledgements
My first thanks are to Dr Alan McGowan, distinguished historian and former Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum, who at Christmas 2007 asked me to complete a project he had started some nine years earlier writing the history of the Royal Naval College Greenwich, 18731998. In February 2008 he consigned his research notes and draft chapters on both the early years of the College and the later development of the Department of Nuclear Science and Technology to me. These provided an invaluable datum for my work, and although I had examined the years of the College up to 1902 in my previous book Educating the Royal Navy (2007), Dr McGowans notes greatly assisted my work and offered a number of previously unconsidered insights. The primary and secondary source material collected by Alan McGowan, and over the following three years by myself, has now been packed up in a Greenwich series of files, notes and papers (GREN 112) and will in due course be deposited for the use of future researchers in the Archive of the Ministry of Defence Naval History Branch. I am grateful to Stephen Prince, Head of Branch, for this facility.
I am also grateful to Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham, both in his role as the Editor of Naval Review, which has proved an invaluable resource in researching the Colleges history, and for permission to use the personal papers of his father, Rear Admiral J.L. Blackham, who served at Greenwich as both a student and staff officer. David and Michael Lane kindly made the recollections of their father, Mr G.H.J. Lane, available to me, and thus provided a rare insight into life on the Branch Officers Course at Greenwich in the early 1950s. I am also grateful to Bernard Mennell, late of the Royal Navy Supply and Transport Service (RNSTS) and a graduate of Staff Course 70, for providing me with information and papers relating to staff training in the final years at Greenwich.
The following also kindly took the trouble to provide memories and recollections of their days living and working in the Royal Naval College Greenwich either to Dr McGowan or myself, or in some cases both: Captain Jack Bayliss, Charles Betts, Rupert Craven, Miss Hilda Craven, Admiral Sir Desmond Dreyer, Keith Ebden, Commander Chris Ellison, Commander Simon Fraser, Geoffrey Fuller, Denis Healey (Lord Healey CH, MBE, PC), Lieutenant Commander Bob Henry, Vice Admiral Sir Hector MacLean, Sandy Marshall, Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch, Rear Admiral Sir Morgan C. Morgan Giles, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Julian Oswald, Bill Park, Dr Kate Utting, Captain Roger Venables and Vice Admiral Sir James Wetherall.
John Hattendorf, Ernest King Professor of History at the United States Naval War College, kindly provided information relating to American students and staff studying at Greenwich over the years. In the United States, I am grateful to Captain C.C. Feltzer USN for giving me the opportunity to present a paper on the Royal Naval College at the Naval History Symposium held at the United States Naval Academy in September 2009. I have been encouraged in my work by regular transatlantic correspondence with Professor Emeritus Eugene Rasor of Emory and Henry College, Virginia, Professor Simon Davis of the City University of New York and Associate Professor Philip Catton of Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas.
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