Rear Admiral

Rear Admiral (Royal Navy)

Rear Admiral is a flag officer rank of the British Royal Navy. It is immediately superior to Commodore and is subordinate to Vice Admiral. It is a two-star rank and has a NATO ranking code of OF-7....

 Sir Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor KCB

Order of the Bath

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 KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 (1863–1946) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord

Third Sea Lord

The Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy was formerly the Naval Lord and member of the Board of Admiralty responsible for procurement and matériel in the British Royal Navy...

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Naval career

Tudor joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1876. He was Commanding Officer of HMS Prometheus

HMS Prometheus (1898)

HMS Prometheus was a Pelorus class cruiser of the Royal Navy. There were eleven "Third class" protected cruisers in the class, which was designed by Sir William White...

, HMS Challenger

HMS Challenger (1902)

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 and HMS Superb

HMS Superb (1907)

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. In 1910 he was given command of the Gunnery School at Whale Island in Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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. He went on to be Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes in 1912.

He served in World War I

World War I

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 as Third Sea Lord

Third Sea Lord

The Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy was formerly the Naval Lord and member of the Board of Admiralty responsible for procurement and matériel in the British Royal Navy...

 from 1914 to 1917 when he became Commander-in-Chief, China Station

China Station

The China Station was a historical formation of the British Royal Navy. It was formally the units and establishments responsible to the Commander-in-Chief, China....

. Tudor was responsible for arranging the escape of refugees from Siberia through Japan and on to Canada. In 1917, he was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star

Order of the Rising Sun

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, which represents the second highest of eight classes associated with the award. Notice of the King's permission to accept and to display this honour was duly published in the London Gazette

London Gazette

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Tudor later became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Old Royal Naval College

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. He retired in 1922.

Tudor was an uncle of Owen Frederick Morton Tudor

Owen Frederick Morton Tudor

Owen Frederick Morton Tudor, , was an officer in 3rd The King's Own Hussars and the husband of Larissa Tudor, a woman some claimed could have been Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.-Early life and education:...

, who married Larissa Tudor, a woman some people have claimed might have really been Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

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