Admiral Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie KCB was an officer in the Royal Navy who served in the First and Second World War.
21 Facts About Hugh Tweedie
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Hugh Tweedie served in Rodney and the sailing corvette Active as the midshipman of the fore cross trees in 1896.
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At the time of the Diamond Jubilee Review in 1897, Hugh Tweedie was appointed to the destroyer Virago.
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Hugh Tweedie then served on the cruiser Phoebe at the Cape.
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Hugh Tweedie was tasked to transport a detachment of troops up the river to attack the rebel position.
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The detachment managed to get lost and Hugh Tweedie led a second native militia in a successful operation against the rebel position.
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Hugh Tweedie's next posting was the destroyer Flying Fish, the cruiser Minerva and then the new battleship Albion in China.
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Hugh Tweedie was a member of the first officer PT class at Britannia Royal Naval College before being appointed PT officer on King Alfred, flagship in China, in 1906 under Sir Arthur Moore.
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Hugh Tweedie was sent by Admiral Cradock from Veracruz with a small party to take despatches through the rebel lines to Mexico City.
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Hugh Tweedie returned with some one hundred American refugees for which he was thanked by President Woodrow Wilson.
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In Canada Hugh Tweedie spent sometime as aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Canada, the Duke of Connaught.
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Hugh Tweedie was designed to make eight knots though she never much exceeded four knots.
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Hugh Tweedie had a beam of ninety feet and was very unmanageable in any wind.
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Hugh Tweedie saw action off the Belgium coast bombarding German positions with her fifteen-inch guns.
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In 1916, Hugh Tweedie was appointed to another monitor, Sir Thomas Picton, seeing action in the Mediterranean Sea around Salonica and the Dardanelles.
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Hugh Tweedie was promoted to Commodore of the Grand Fleet Flotillas, a command of some 150 ships, under Admiral Beatty.
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Hugh Tweedie was made a Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1919.
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Hugh Tweedie was promoted to vice admiral and Commander-in-Chief Africa Station in 1930.
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Hugh Tweedie's command stretched from the Cape of Good Hope up both the east and west coasts of Africa to the equator.
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Hugh Tweedie retired from the navy in 1936 and in 1939 published his autobiography.
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Vere Hugh Tweedie who served in the Gold Coast Regiment of Royal West African Frontier Force awarded MC in 1945 during an action behind Japanese lines on the Tamandu to An road in the Arakan Burma.