FAMOUS SAILOR DEAD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13325, 3 November 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

FAMOUS SAILOR DEAD.

THE STIRRING CAREER OF SIR E. CHICHESTER. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, admiral-superintendent in charge of a.ll His Majesty's naval establishments at Gibraltar, has died there from acute pneumonia. There was no hope of Sir Edward's recovery from the first, and Lady Chichester and" Lieutenant Chichester reached Gibraltar just in time to see the admiral alive. Sir Edward bulked largely in the public eye on at least two occasions. When the United States was fighting Spam Admiral Dewey was saved from a serious complication by him. Diedrich, the German admiral at Manila, assumed an attitude towards Admiral Dewey which the American resented so strongly that he promised the Germans war m five minutes it they had a taste for it. Diedrich went to Chichester on board the Iramortalitc, and asked him what he would do if Dewey bombarded Manila. "That is only known to Dewey and myself." was Sir Edwards reply, and after"his visitor had left he noised his ships quistly between the American and German fleets, and acted as a buffer. Sir Edward was appointed chief naval transport officer during the South African war, and made the arrangements for carrying 250.000 troops over more than 5000 miles ot sea. His plan was no less unparalleled titan the execution of it. Sir Edward was in charge of the transport arrangements for the Egyptian expedition of 1884-5, was naval A.D.V. to Queen Victoria in 1899, and to the King- in 1901. He attained flag rank in the following year. He was the ninth baronet, and is succeeded by his son. Ho was fifty-seven years old. His body will be brought to England in a battleship, and buried in the famil'v vault at Sinvell, North Devon.