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Arthur Tillotson Brown

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ATB started his career on sailing ships, either as a runaway or an apprentice (Singapore Straits Times, 1938). Just before the 1st war he was Captain of an IoM ferry, joined the White Star company and joined the Royal Navy as an RNR officer in the First World War.
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After the merger of White Star & Cunard, he became a Cunard captain and had served either as Staff Captain or Captain at various times on many Cunard ships, including the Andania, Aquitania, Berengaria, Britannic, Franconia and Mauretania II.
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on 7 May 1917. Brown was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1918, and to commander on 30 June 1922. He retired from the Naval List on 10 April 1928 with the rank of captain.
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He died aboard onboard at Port Said in 1942 from the exhaustion of being in command on unaccompanied transits of hostile waters.
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Brown was confirmed a sub-lieutenant from probationary sub-lieutenant in the
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with seniority date of 12 August 1907. Brown served in the
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The Navy List, Admiralty, London, August 1917, page 397w.
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The Navy List, Admiralty, London, August 1939, page 894.
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The Navy List, Admiralty, London, July 1908, page 493a.
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R. D.
R. N. R.
RMS Mauretania
RMS Mauretania
Royal Naval Reserve
Royal Navy
World War I
HMS Seal
Southampton
breakers
Rosyth
Scotland
Clyde
Liverpool
New York
Supplement issue 34768


"Catalogue description Name: Arthur Tillotson Brown . Rank: Captain (Retired) Date of Seniority: 10 April"
"The Navy List"
Royal Naval Reserve
"Catalogue description Name: Arthur Tillotson Brown . Rank: Lieutenant Commander . Date of Seniority: 1918"
Royal naval reserve. Retired officers
"RMS Mauretania 2 - 1938 to 1965"
Categories
1878 births
1942 deaths
British sailors
British Merchant Navy officers
Royal Navy officers

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