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3 unusual facts about Royal Naval College


Owen Stanley

He entered the Royal Naval College at the age of fifteen, and for nine years served under Phillip Parker King on HMS Adventure and John Franklin in the Mediterranean.

Royal College of Science

But the scientists pressed the need for much better laboratory space, so the school of naval architecture instead went to Greenwich.

Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Admiral D. Basil Gunasekara (born 1929), Commander of the Navy of Sri Lanka from 1973 to 1979


Carlyon Bellairs

In 1885 he entered the Royal Navy, receiving his education at Stubbington House School and HMS Britannia and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Chloë Hanslip

Chloë was invited to perform again for the Duke of Edinburgh at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in May 2002.

Ewa Miszewska

She was trained at British officers course in Mill Hill and at Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet

Bromet attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and then served as a Flight Commander in the First World War being commended for his service in Gallipoli in 1915 and later commanding No. 1 Squadron RNAS and then No. 8 Squadron RNAS.

George Vallings

Educated at Belhaven Hill School in Dunbar and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Vallings joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1950 and took part in the Korean War.

Hugo Biermann

Two years later he attended the British Naval Staff Course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and was appointed as naval attaché at South African House, London with the rank of Commander.

Ian Garnett

He then went to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Jock Slater

Born the son of James Kirkwood Slater OBE and Margaret Claire Byrom Slater (née Bramwell), Slater was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, Sedbergh School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse

Born the son of Sir Harold Fieldhouse, who had been secretary of the National Assistance Board, and Mabel Elaine Fieldhouse (née Elliott), Fieldhouse was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Midshipman extraordinary

Later it referred to a rating for graduates of the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth, who could not find a post as a midshipman.

Neville Purvis

Educated at Charterhouse School, Selwyn College, Cambridge and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Purvis joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and specialized as a submariner.

Prince Arisugawa Takehito

In 1880, shortly after his wedding, Prince Arisugawa was again sent to England, this time as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Richard H. Leir

He joined the Royal Canadian Navy as a cadet in 1940, after attending Shawnigan Lake School, as well as the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England, continued his early training with the Royal Navy.

Yan Fu

In 1877–79 he studied at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, England.


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