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a. 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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