R.N.Z. NAVY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18549, 26 November 1925, Page 2

R.N.Z. NAVY.

STAFF CHANGES.

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LONDON, October 20.

Commander F. C. Bradley, who will take command of the Philomel, entered the Navy in IDO4, and served as a midshipman in the Commonwealth, Mars, and Africa on Atlantic, and Home Stations. He was a sub-lieu-tenant and lieutenant in the destroyer service at Home and in the Mediterranean. "When war broke out he was first lieutenant on the destroyer Legion, in the Harwich Force. He was present at the sinking of Koenigen Louise on the first day of the war, and was in the Heligoland action. Later be commanded Torpedo Boat No. 23 at the Nore, T.B. Destroyer Unity, on Western convoy escort duty, and for the last nine months of the war T.B. Destroyer Rocket, attached to th<? Grand Fleet. Since the war Commander Bradley has served as first lieutenant for two years on the Admiraltv yacht Enchantress, and has been in command of T.B. Destroyer Vindicta. He was promoted to his present rank in December, 1923. Both Commander Bradley and his wife, wh«» is accompanying him to New Zealand, are much interested in all forms of sport. Lieut.-Commandet H. L. Welman seived before the war and during the early part of the war in H.M.S. Hernia. He then transferred to H.M.S. Spanker, and was engaged in minesweeping. For a period he was witf' H.M.S. Collingwood, and for the last eighteen months of hostilities with H.M.S. Royal Sovereign. Immediately after the war he qualified in torpedo w;ork, and has been engaged in that particular branch of the service, both at home and abroad, over since. Lieut.-Com-mander Welman is interested in all forms of games and sports. Lieut.-Commander R. P. Selbv, R.N., who has been lent by the Admiralty for a period of service in the Royal New Zealand Navy, is going out as Squadron Gunnery Officer. Although Commander Selby has not himself previously been in New Zealand, his father was born there and lived there for about ten years. From 1912-14 this officer was a midshipman in the Inflexible, Invincible, and Audacious. His period as sub-lieuten-ant, 1914-16, was passed in the Audacious and Lion; promoted lieutenant in 1916, he served in the Lion, Ceres, and Excellent, this bringing him to 1923, in which year he was promoted lieutenant-commander, and for a year was in Centurion, and for another year, 1924-25, in Excellent: Lieut.Commander Selby was in H.M.S. Audacious when she sank in the autumn of 1914 in the late war. During the battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland he was in Admiral Beatty's flagship, H.M.S. Lion, and after the battles mentioned he was specially promoted to lieutenant. After the Armistice he served in the Ba3tic and Black Seas in H.M.S. Ceres. He also knows the Mediterranean very well. In regard to recreation Lieut.-Commander Selby is interested in all forms of game and sport, and has taken part in most of them. He is a particularly keen cricketer. This officer is married and has a little daughter, five years of age. Mr H. H. Shipcott was promoted to gunner (Torpedo) in November, 1918. He joined the Service in January, 1908. During the war he served' on the Elizabeth, and was in Galllpoili waters on the day of the landing. The Audacious and the Hercules were the oth?r ships he served on in wartime. After the Armistice he was on the destroyer Sparrow: Hawjc, and, visited Gallipoli again at the time, of the Chanak trouble. For the past two years he has been on the instructional staff of the Torpedo School (H.M.S. "Vernon) at Portsmouth. Sir Shipcott has been an Association football player and is now a member of the Portsmouth Management Committee of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Football Association, besides hemp a referee in the same Association. He goes out in the Diomede.