Category

Irish officers in the Royal Navy

page 1

Ernest Shackleton

Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)

Francis Beaufort

Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)

Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

Royal Navy officer (1883–1963)

John French, 1st Earl of Ypres

Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army (1852-1925)

Erskine Childers

Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)

Edward Bransfield

Royal Navy officer and explorer

first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi (1792-1842)

Francis Crozier

Irish naval officer and polar explorer

British admiral (1862-1928)

English surgeon and botanical collector (1756-1832)

British Royal Navy vice admiral (1806-1875)

Leopold McClintock

Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy (1819-1907)

Barry Edward O'Meara

Irish surgeon who accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena

James Hingston Tuckey

Anglo-Irish explorer (1776-1816)

Sackville Carden

Royal Navy admiral (1857–1930)

Sir Josias Rowley, 1st Baronet

English naval officer (1765-1842)

Royal Navy vice admiral (1703-1752)

Walter Gordon Wilson

engineer (1874-1957)

Royal Navy admiral (1713-1787)

Charles Telfair

Irish botanist (1778-1833)

Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet

British admiral (1768-1834)

Frederic Charles Dreyer

Royal Navy admiral (1878-1956)

British naval surgeon

Henry Blackwood

Royal Navy officer

admiral of the Royal Navy (1629-1673)

Richard Charles Mayne

Royal Navy Captain, later Admiral and explorer (1835–1892)

Charles Des Voeux

British naval officer (1825-1847)

World War II Victoria Cross winner

John Cyril Porte

British aviator (1884–1919)

recipient of the Victoria Cross

Francis Annesley, 6th Earl Annesley

Anglo-Irish peer and military aviator

recipient of the Victoria Cross