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He was a 19th-century industrialist, active in his family's iron business which was a branch of the Stirling Iron Works, the maker of the Hudson River Chain that prevented the British Royal Navy from sailing up the Hudson River during the American Revolutionary War.
Meanwhile he served in the British Royal Navy 1857–1861, participating in campaigns against pirates in the South China Sea, and took part in one of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's North Pole expeditions in 1868, as commander of the expedition ship Sofia.
Relations between the RAN and British Royal Navy were close at the time, with frequent exchanges of officers between the two and in June 1941, Collins was transferred to Singapore, as Assistant Chief of Staff to the British Naval Commander in Chief, China Station, Vice Admiral Geoffrey Layton.
However, before his slave-ship left port, it was boarded by a British Royal Navy ship under the command of Captain Henry Leeke, and Crowther was taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was released.
Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner (1742–1809), British Royal Navy officer and politician
The Battle of 4 May was fought in open sea near Salvador, Bahia, on 4 May 1823, between the Brazilian Navy, under the command of a former admiral of the British Royal Navy, Thomas Cochrane, and the Portuguese Navy during the Brazilian War of Independence.
Mass production using interchangeable parts was first achieved in 1803 by Marc Isambard Brunel in cooperation with Henry Maudslay, and Simon Goodrich, under the management of (with contributions by) Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham the Inspector General of Naval Works at Portsmouth Block Mills at Portsmouth Dockyard for the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War.
Sir Ernest Augustus Taylor (1876–1971), British Royal Navy officer and politician
Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet (1860–1917), Vice-Admiral in the British Royal Navy
HMS H23, a British Royal Navy submarine which saw service during World War I
HMS H24, a British Royal Navy submarine which saw service during World War I
Horatio Hornblower, a fictional officer of the British Royal Navy created by C.S. Forester
The first set of prototype clips was made up in the Malta Dockyard and by 1895 Inglefield clips were standard issue to the British Royal Navy.
Jack Broome (John Egerton Broome, 1901–1985), British Royal Navy officer
HMS K13, a 1916 British Royal Navy steam-propelled K class submarine
Naval Education Service, a branch of the British Royal Navy which both provided education for naval personnel and ran schools for children of Royal Navy personnel
The Yard served as the main base for the British Royal Navy in North American during the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812.
Submarine Command Course, a British Royal Navy training course nicknamed for defeating so many officers
John Quilliam (1771–1829), a British Royal Navy officer and the First Lieutenant on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar
John Schank (c. 1740 –1823), officer of the British Royal Navy
Special Boat Service, known as the Special Boat Squadron from 1977–1987 (British Royal Navy)
Their second son Charles (1800–1869) followed his father into the British Royal Navy and was instrumental in founding the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.
Roi Wilson (1921-2009), British Royal Navy captain and aviator
James Vashon, officer of the British Royal Navy and the island's namesake
William Johnstone Hope (1766–1831), prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician