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HMS Barracouta served between October 1899 and June 1902 and was commanded by Commander R H Peirse, Commander H Cotesworth and Commander S H B Ash.

QSA (0) (C. Fuller. Sto. HMS Barracouta.) small impressed naming

Charles William Fuller was born in Stonar, Kent, on 22 October 1874 and joined the Royal Navy on 2 January 1894. Promoted Stoker on 15 September of that year, he joined HMS Barracouta on 1 April 1898 and served in her during the Boer War.

Advanced Stoker Petty Officer on 1 July 1906, he was invalided out of the service on 9 November 1911.

Here is another to H.M.S. Barracouta.....

Mike

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OBE 1st type, civil, HM 1916;
QSA (0) (Lieut. E. L. A. Foakes, R.N., H.M.S. Barracouta.);
British War Medal 1914-20 (Commr E. L. A. Foakes. R.N.)

OBE London Gazette 7 January 1918: ‘Commander Edward Lindsay Ashley Foakes, R.N. Naval Assistant to Director of Army Postal Services, and Nautical Adviser to the Post Office.’

Edward Lindsay Ashley Foakes was born in Brighton on 6 April 1865. Educated privately, he joined the Royal Navy on 31 October 1895 as a Lieutenant. He served aboard Benbow from 1895-97 when he joined Barracouta, in which ship he served until December 1900, earning the South Africa medal. He then served aboard Forth, Pallas, Latona (for passage), Halcyon and Vulcan as navigator. He retired on 1 August 1908 with the rank of Commander to take up the post of Nautical Adviser to the Post Office. He was recalled for service during the Great War as Naval Assistant to the Director of the Army Postal Services, and was awarded the O,B.E. for this service. He received his award at Buckingham Palace on 13 February 1918. He afterwards emigrated to South Africa where he was elected Mayor of Knysna, Cape Province, in August 1930. He died there on 6 October 1947.

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CB Military, n/b;
QSA (0) (Paymaster H. Horniman, H.M.S. Barracouta.);
1914-15 Star (Ft. Payr. H. Horniman. R.N.);
British War and Victory Medals (Payr. Commr. H. Horniman. R.N.);
Jubilee 1935;
France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels;
Russia, Empire, Order of St Stanislas, Second Class neck badge with swords, 48mm, by Eduard, St Petersburg, gilt and enamel, some minor enamel chips

Henry Horniman was born in 1870, the son of Paymaster-in-Chief William Horniman, RN. After attending Christ’s Hospital School, he entered the Royal Navy in January 1887, as an assistant clerk in the paymaster’s department. He spent the next year in various ships and establishments on the Mediterranean station, including the battleship Dreadnought. Here he first came into contact with Prince Louis of Battenberg, for whom he acquired a lasting admiration. In December 1888 he joined the cruiser Amphion, whose other officers included George Warrender and R. F. Scott (of Antarctic fame), for a three year commission with the Pacific Squadron. After further service in Home waters, he was appointed in January 1896 to the Ramillies, the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. His next appointment, in October 1897, was to the Surprise, a despatch vessel used as the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean's yacht, and so he was able to study Sir John Fisher, who assumed command of the station in 1899, at close quarters. Horniman was never impressed by Fisher and was at a loss to understand the "extraordinary ascendancy Fisher exercised over his contemporaries.”

In 1901 Horniman was appointed to the 3rd class cruiser Barracouta on the Cape station, but the ship, which was kept as smart as a millionaire's yacht, was only intermittently involved with the military operations ashore. Further service in Home waters followed until, in 1906, he joined the battleship Duncan, the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet. From 1908 to November 1912, Horniman served successively in the battleships Venerable and Implacable, the cruiser Shannon and the battle cruiser Indomitable, but none of these commissions was especially eventful. He was then appointed to the battle cruiser Inflexible (Captain A N Loxley), the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne. On 4 August 1914 Inflexible encountered the German battle cruiser Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau but, not being yet at war with Germany, Milne shadowed the Germans until ordered home on 18 August. Inflexible afterwards took part in the battle of the Falkland Islands, the Dardanelles campaign and the battle of Jutland. From 1917-19, Horniman was Paymaster at the Admiralty Controllers’ Department, and then joined Iron Duke, as Paymaster Commander and Fleet Accountant Officer on the Mediterranean station from March 1919, and took part in the post-armistice operations in the Black Sea during the Russian civil war. He was created CB in 1922, and was placed on the retired list in 1925. He died at Worthing on 21 May 1956.

Sold with photocopies of ‘Sailing Through, The Autobiography of Henry Horniman, Royal Navy’, 142pp typescript, and ‘Diary of Henry Horniman, Fleet Paymaster R.N. Kept while serving in H.M.S. Inflexible 4 Nov 1914 to 25 April 1915 - Together with a narrative of the first part of the Ship’s Commission from 4 Nov 1912 to 4 Nov 1914’, 73pp typescript transcript. The originals of both are held by the Imperial War Museum Department of Documents. The papers ‘include very interesting assessments of several distinguished officers under whom he served, notably Admirals of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Sir Doveton Sturdee, Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe and Sir John de Robeck and Admirals Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe, Sir Ernest Troubridge and Sir Richard Phillimore, while they also reflect his life long admiration for the lower deck.’

Thank you David
What an incredible, interesting and varied career
Clive

QSA (0) (S. W. Manning, S.S.A., H.M.S. Barracouta), refixed suspension claw, slack suspension post and edge bruising;
1914-15 Star (342419, S. W. Manning, S.S., R.N.);
British War and Victory Medals (342419 S. W. Manning. V.C.P.O., R.N.);
RN LS&GC GV (342419 SAmuel [sic] W. Manning, Sh. Std., H.M.S. Carnarvon)

Noonan's say 262 no-clasp Queen’s South Africa Medals were awarded to the ship’s company of HMS Barracouta.

Samuel Welsford Manning was born in Sunderland in January 1884 and entered the Royal Navy as a Ship’s Steward (Boy) in November 1898. He subsequently served in HM Ships Gibraltar (March to October 1901) and Barracouta (October 1901 to March 1904), during which periods he was advanced to Ship’s Steward Assistant and witnessed active service off South Africa.

On the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Manning was serving as a Ship’s Steward aboard the cruiser Carnarvon, in which capacity he remained employed until coming ashore to Vivid I in November 1917. As a consequence, he witnessed action in the South Atlantic in 1914, when the Carnarvon won the Battle Honour “Falklands 1914” and captured a German merchantman on 24 August of the same year. She was later employed on Atlantic convoys.

Manning, who was awarded his LS&GC Medal in February 1917, was advanced to Victualling Chief Petty Officer in February 1918 and was pensioned ashore in August 1922.