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KENNEDY, Adm Francis William (1862-1939)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Kennedy

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: KENNEDY, Adm Francis William (1862-1939)

Date(s): Created 1914-[1916]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1862; educated Uppington and Royal Academy, Gosport, Hampshire; Mid on HMS SULTAN during the Egyptian War, 1882; Lt on cruiser HMS PHOEBE, 1895-1898; took part in the capture of M'Weli (Mwele), East Africa, 1895; served with the Benin Expedition, East Africa, 1897; Cdr, 1898; Cdr on HMS VIVID, with command of VALIENT, a depot ship for torpedoboatdestroyers, and the Fleet Reserve at Devonport, 1898-1904; Capt, 1904; commanded cruiser HMS MEDUSA, 1905-1906; commanded light cruiser HMS THETIS, 1905; commanded battlecruiser HMS INDOMITABLE, 1912-1916; participated in the shadowing, chase and escape of the German battlecruiser GOEBEN and its companion ship BRESLAU by the British Mediterranean Fleet, Aug 1914; the bombardment of the Dardanelles, Nov 1914; the Battle of Dogger Bank, Jan 1915, including the sinking of the German battlecruiser BLUCHER and towed home V Adm Sir David Beatty's disabled Flagship HMS LION; the Battle of Jutland, May 1916, where Kennedyassumed command of 3 Battlecruiser Sqn following the death of R Adm the Hon Sir Horace Hood; R Adm, 1916; in charge of Peterhead area off east coast of Scotland, 1917-1919; promoted V Adm and retired, 1920; Adm, 1925; died 1939.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to Kennedy's service as Capt of the battlecruiser HMS INDOMITABLE during World War One, including brief diary of the war training of the British Mediterranean Fleet, 1913-1914; narratives describing the shadowing, chase and escape of the German battlecruiser GOEBEN and its companion ship BRESLAU from the British Mediterranean Fleet, Aug 1914; apersonal description of the first bombardment of the Dardanelles, Nov 1914; intelligence reports of the positions of the warships of various nations, 1915; summary of information received from survivors of the German battlecruiser BLUCHER sunk during the Battle of Dogger Bank, Jan 1915; a brief personal memoir of the Battle of Jutland, May 1916.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, anddetailed catalogue available on-line and also in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1966.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Maritime warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Military education | Higher science education
Military operations | Military engineering
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
Blucher | German armoured cruiser | 1906
Breslau | German battlecruiser
German Navy
Goeben | German battlecruiser | 1911
HMS Indomitable | Battle Cruiser | 1907
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy

Places
Dardanelles | Turkey | Middle East
Dogger Bank | North Sea
Jutland | Denmark | Northern Europe | Western Europe | Europe
Mediterranean Sea | Seas