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Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, [1] also known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth, Devon , England .
HMS Dartmouth (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon) Includes Hindostan as static training ship; HMS Excellent (Whale Island, Portsmouth) HMS Raleigh (Torpoint, Cornwall) Includes Brecon as static training ship; HMS Sultan (Gosport, Hampshire) HMS Temeraire (Royal Navy School of Physical Training, Portsmouth)
Gordon Onslow Ford (1912–2003), a leading British surrealist painter, attended the Royal Naval College. Sir John Harvey Jones (1924–2008), businessman and television presenter, attended the Royal Naval College. Rachel Kempson (1910–2003), stage and film actress, was born in Dartmouth.
The category is for persons who trained at the college in Dartmouth and its predecessors HMS Britannia (1820) and HMS Prince of Wales (1860) from 1862 until the present day. Contents Top
While in the academy, he was confirmed a Naval Cadet and proceeded to the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in South Devon, United Kingdom, in August 1961. Along with six other Ghanaian cadets, Dzang joined the British and other Commonwealth naval cadets for comprehensive training, starting as naval cadets to midshipmen at sea and acting ...
On graduation from the Royal Naval College Dartmouth Woodward joined the Royal Navy in 1946. [3] He became a submariner in 1954, and was promoted to lieutenant that May. [3] [4] In 1960 he passed the Royal Navy's rigorous Submarine Command Course known as The Perisher, [5] and received his first command, the T-class submarine HMS Tireless. [3]
The romance of Prince Philip of Greece and Princess Elizabeth sprang out of a summer encounter at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in 1939. ... Elizabeth visited the naval college with their ...
The Upper Yardman scheme (entering Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC), Dartmouth, Devon, as a cadet or midshipman, under terms similar to those direct from civilian life) was open to those supply branch ratings under the age of about 25.