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William Ruck-Keene

HMS Cochrane
HMS Cochrane
  • ... that Captain Ruck-Keene's command of HMS Cochrane (pictured) ended a few days after Admiral Jellicoe wrote that he had become "lazy, lacks energy & has run to seed"?
    Source for quotation: Letter from Admiral Jellicoe to Admiral Jackson dated 27 June 1915 in Jackson Papers at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, accession number 255/4/4; Source for termination of command on 30 June 1915: Service Record of W. G. E. Ruck-Keene, in National Archives, reference ADM 196/42, f.451

Created by Moonraker (talk). Self-nominated at 10:24, 10 March 2018 (UTC).