NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 818, 1 March 1910, Page 3

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.

London, February 27Admiral Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe (Commander-in-chief at Portsmouth) has been appointed Admiral of the Fleet, vice Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, who is retiring. Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Poe has been appointed Commauder-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Squadron, and Vice-Admiral Sir Asshetou Curzon-Howe (Com-mander-In-Chief in the Mediterranean) becomes Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, vice Admiral Fanshawe.

Admiral Fanshawe has been Commander-iu-Chief at Portsmouth since 1908, prior to which he was for two years President of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. From 1902 to 1905 he was Commander-in-Chief ou the Australian Station. He was born in 1847. Admiral Seymour has been an Admiral of the Fleet since 1905. . He entered the Navy in 1852, and served in the Crimea, the China War, in the operations against the rebels in China, on the coast of Africa, and in the Egyptian War. He commanded the allied expedition against the Chinese in 1900. In turn be was second in command of the Channel Squadron, Superintendent of Naval Reserves, Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, and Commander-in-Chief at Devonport. Sir Edmund Poe was born in 1849, and entered the Navy in 1862. From 18S9 to IS9O he was Naval Adviser to the InspectorGeneral of Fortifications, in 1903 was second in command of the Home Fleet, in 1904-05 commanded the First Cruiser Squadron, and from 1905 to 1907 was Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies.

Sir Assheton Curzon - Howe, born in 1850, joined the Navy in 1863. For a time he commanded the Royal Yacht Osborne. In 1892 he was appointed AssistantDirector of Naval Intelligence, from 1893 to 1896 was Com-mauder-iu-Charge of the Newfoundland Fisheries, in 1902-03 second in command of the Channel Fleet, from 1903 to 1905 Commander on the China Station, and from 1903 to 1907 Com-mauder-iu-Chief of the Channel Fleet.