Note: Clarence C. Gossage Royal Navy Record Naval Number 2225 96 Place of residence upon joining the service (Per Royal Navy Record) 215 Acton Lane, Acton Green Chiswick, Middlesex, London Length signed up -12 Years Medals/Decorations awarded 1914-15 Star British War Victory Good Conduct Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service 1914-1915-1916-1917 Chevron Marks, Wounds and Scars. An anchor and some dots tatooed very faintly on left wrist and forearm. Breakdown of service 1) Ship, HMS Impregnable Boy 2nd Class From Sept 9th 1902 - July 22nd 1903 Boy 1st Class From 23rd July 1903 - 24th Feb 29th 1904 HMS Impregnable Boys training ship for boys aged 12 thru 19. Ship docked at Davenport. HMS Impregnable, formerly HMS Howe, a former 110-gun 1st Rate screw Ship of the Line employed as a training ship. Howe was completed in 1860 and reduced to training duty in 1885. She has been modified in several ways - bow and stern enclosed, rig greatly reduced, gun ports converted to windows, additional ports cut low in the hull, and numerous additional boats added, reflecting her role as a training ship. Trainees can be seen swarming in the rigging, and gathered on deck aft. (View picture of vessel under scrapbook area). 2) HMS VIVID From 25th Feb 1904 - 29 Sept 1904 HMS VIVID The first HMS VIVID was a wooden paddle steamer launched in 1848, which served on the Mail Packet service between Dover and Calais. Following short periods as a tender at Woolwich and then Sheerness, she became the tender to HMS ROYAL ADELAIDE, the Devonport Flagship, in 1872. In 1889 she became the Devonport Flagship and the newly established Devonport Royal Navy barracks was also named VIVID (so becoming the second VIVID). The RN barracks were to keep this name until 1934, when they were renamed DRAKE. The reason for the establishment and the ship having the same name is that prior to 1959 the Naval Discipline Act only applied to officers and men who were born on the books of one of HM Ships of war. Thus all personnel were allocated to a nominal depot ship when not actually serving in a proper seagoing warship. The shore establishment usually took the name of the original ship. So the RN Barracks at Devonport was named VIVID and whenever the nominal depot ship changed then she also took the name of VIVID. This requirement for a nominal depot ship ceased in 1959 following a change to the Naval Discipline Act. The next vessel to bear the name was an iron steam yacht originally called the CAPERCALZIE that having assumed the name VIVID became the Devonport Flagship in 1893 and served as the yacht for Commander in Chief Plymouth. 3) HMS DIANA (Eclipse class masted cruiser of the Royal Navy) Ordinary Seaman From 30th Sept 1904 - 22 Dec 1904 Able Seaman 21st April 1906 - 5th Nov 1906 4) HMS VIVID From 6th Nov 1906 - 24th Aug 1907 5) HMS DEFIANCE From 25th Aug 1907 - 16th Nov 1907 A Royal Naval Torpedo school close to Plymouth. Actually it was located across the tidal part of the Tamar estuary known as the Hamoaze in the sleepy riverside town of Torpoint...called in earlier times the "New Ground", it enjoyed early prosperity due to it`s proximity to Devonport Dockyard, or Dock as it was initially called. Part of the curriculum in this school was the firing of LIVE explosive submarine mines and Whitehead Torpedos. 6) HMS VIVID From 17th Nov 1907 - 31st Dec 1907 7) HMS HEBE (Submarine Depot Ship) From 1st Jan 1908 - 24th May 1909 8) HMS VIVID From 25th MAy 109 - 20th May 1910 9) HMS HEBE From 21st May 1910 - 23rd Sept 1912 10) HMS VIVID From 24th Sept 1912 - 2nd Nov 1912 11) HMS DEFIANCE From 3rd Nov 1912 - 19th Feb 1913 12) HMS VIVID From 20th Feb 1913 - 11th Apr 1913 13) HMS BLAKE (REDPOLE) From 12th Apr 1913 - 31st Aug 1915 14) HMS BLAKE (MOMING) From 1st Sept 1915 - 31 Mar 1918 15) HMS CEROLLO (MOMING) From 1st Apr 1918 - 15th Feb 1919 16) DEMOBILISED 15th Feb 1919 17) ROYAL FLEET RESERVE (joined) 23rd June 1919. 18) HMS VIVID From 12th Apr 1921 - 9th Jun 1921 19) HMS DEFIANCE From 16th Sept 1923 - 22 Sept 1923 Discharged From the Royal Navy Fleet Reserve, Physically unfit for Naval service. 1923 Award Prize Bounty For Jutland raid.
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