Admiral Sir Henry Chads KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (1819 – 30 June 1906) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Naval career

Born the son of Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads

Henry Ducie Chads

Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads, GCB was an officer in the Royal Navy who saw action from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War....

, Henry Chads joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1832 and went on to take part in operations against Malay pirates in the Strait of Malacca

Strait of Malacca

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Promoted to Captain

Captain (naval)

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 in 1848, he commanded HMS Portland, HMS Amphion

HMS Amphion (1846)

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, HMS Conway

HMS Conway (1832)

HMS Conway was a sixth rate of the Royal Navy, built by Chatham Dockyard and launched on 2 February 1832. She was lent to the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool in February 1859 to act as a training ship for boys, and gave her name to HMS Conway, a series of ships and a shore-based school....

, HMS Nile and then HMS London

HMS London (1840)

HMS London was a two-decker 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1840 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1854, London took part in the bombardment of Fort Constantine at Sevastopol during the Crimean War, where she sustained damage.In 1858 she was converted to screw...

. He was appointed Captain-Superintendent of Deptford

Deptford

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 Dockyard in 1863 and Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1876 before retiring in 1884.

He lived at Portland House in Southsea

Southsea

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 and there is a memorial to him in St Judes Church in Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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