NAVY CHANGES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1059, 23 February 1911, Page 5

NAVY CHANGES.

1 ADMIRAL POORE'S FAREWELL, By Telegraph—Prom Asßoclalioo-CoriTlsht (Rcc: February 22, 8.20 p.m.) ; ; .Sydney, February 22. Admiral ICing-llall, the new Command-er-in-Chief on the Australian station, took over the command to-day. Admiral Sir Richard Poore, tho retiring Co'mmnnder : in-Chicf,' in 'bidding farcweU.to tho Powcrful's crew, said it would be only two years perhaps before the White Ensign would disappear from Australian waters. Its placo woultl bo taken by the' Commonwealth flog which ho. hoped would tako care of the seas iu (his lpdV!''!M 'the world as the British flag had done.

< 1 HOME APPOINTMENTS.* ' London,-February 21. The following naval changes aro announced :—Admiral Sir W. H. May, commanding tho Home fleet, succeeds Admiral Sir Wilmot H. Fawkes,.Command-er-in-Chief at Plymouth! Vice-Admiral Sir G. Egerton, commanding at, th 6 Cape, succeeds Vice-Admiral Sir Ft C. Bridgerrtan-Bridgeman as a Lord of the Admjralty. , Vice-Admiral Sir W. H. May was born m 1847 and entered the Navy in 1663.' He attained flag rank in 1901 when he was appointed Director of Naval Ordnance ana - Torpedoes. Since then he has been successively a Lord of ; the Admiraltv and Controller of the Navy, Commander-in-Chief of tho Atlantic lleet, Second Sea Lord of the Admiralty, and Commander-in-Chief of the Homo fl.eot. . Vice-Admiral Sir George Egerton was appointed Commander-in-Chief at tho Cape of Good Hope in 1908. He was born in 1852.