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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of His Adventures
http://richardramsayarmstrong.blogspot.com
RRA's autobio has been published 100 years after he wrote it. RN officer on ant-slavery patrol and then Crimean War. NZ, Fiji, Lord Howe Is. Explorer, Adventurer. Blog follows book and adds lots of useful info - like an online 'reader'
- Added on: Mar 10th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Tom Muir
- Listed in: History Military
- Tags: new zealand fiji slave trade crimean war naval history lord howe island
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John Billingham Swann
John Billingham Swann (1828-1904) was a Passed Clerk in Vesuvius from the 29th of June, 1853, until appointed Assistant Paymaster in Diamond on the 9th of February, 1855, so would have messed with Richard Ramsay Armstrong and they would have known on...
Hubert Campion
Hubert Campion (1825-1900) was First, or Senior Lieutenant in Vesuvius in the Black Sea under Richard Ashmore Powell. Richard Ramsay Armstrong would have known him well, despite not mentioning him by name in the Book of His Adventures. Sadly, I can f...
Richard Ashmore Powell
Richard Ashmore Powell, RRA's first commander in HMS Vesuvius and clearly one of his seniors whom he most admired, was a Channel Islander like his young protegé. He was born in Guernsey on the 12th of July, 1816 (according to the Elizabeth College R...
HMS Vesuvius
Image PW5680, © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.Oswald Walter Brierly's painting of Vesuvius and Gun Boats Wrangler and Grinder at the destroying of stores, Sea of Azoff, 1 Sept 1855. Published here with the kind permission of the National Marit...
Frederick Giraud Armstrong (1834 - 1900)
Richard Ramsay Armstrong's other brother who served in the Crimean War was Frederick Giraud (Gerard, or Geraud) Armstrong (1834 – 1900). Much more is know about him than older brother Robert Philip.Frederick was born on the 1st of January, and bap...
Robert Philip Armstrong (1825-1863)
We now come to Richard Ramsay Armstrong's service in the Crimea. RRA had two brothers in the Army who served alongside him at the siege of Sevastopol, and it is the elder of the two who is covered first.Robert Philip Armstrong was the eldest survivin...
