19-551: Bunt may refer to: [REDACTED] Look up bunt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. People [ edit ] Darrell Bunt (1902–1977), Royal Navy chaplain Dick Bunt (1960–1921), American basketball player Raymond Bunt (born 1944), Pennsylvania politician Bunt Stephens (John L. Stephens, 1889–1951), or Uncle Bunt, American old-time fiddle player Bunt (DJ) ,
38-676: A Chaplain in the Royal Navy . Amongst others he served HMS President (as Chaplain to Leonard Coulshaw, the Chaplain of the Fleet), HMS Excellent , HMS Suffolk , the RN College at Dartmouth and HM Dockyard, Portsmouth before becoming head of the service. An Honorary Chaplain to the Queen , he died on 31 October 1977. This biography of a United Kingdom religious figure is
57-563: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article about a person in connection with Christianity is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . HMS Excellent (shore establishment) HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy " stone frigate " (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire. HMS Excellent is itself part of the Maritime Warfare School, with
76-439: A torpedo section was set up within the school; overseen by Commander Jacky Fisher (who would later return to Excellent as commanding officer), this was made a separate establishment, as HMS Vernon , in 1876. It was under Fisher's command, in the 1880s, that approval was given to move the gunnery school ashore, on to Whale Island. The initial proposal had come from a Lieutenant Percy Scott , who (having arrived to train as
95-563: A Dutch surname Bunt v Hallinan , 1985 case in New Zealand land law Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bunt . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bunt&oldid=1228996379 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
114-871: A German DJ Other uses [ edit ] Bunt (baseball) , a batting technique Bunt (community) , a community in South-West India Bunt (sail) , a part of a ship's sail Bunt Island , in Antarctica The Bunt, nickname of the Buntingford branch line in Hertfordshire, England Bunt, an aerobatic maneuver Bunt, a fungal disease of grasses (including wheat , barley , and rye ), such as karnal bunt , common bunt and dwarf bunt See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Bunt Bundt cake Bunting (bird) van de Bunt ,
133-481: A gunnery lieutenant in 1878) initially used the island as a running track. The island had grown significantly in size since the 1850s: indeed, up until the early 1890s excavated spoil from the expansion of the Dockyard was routinely conveyed there, using convict labour , to build the island up. Scott returned to Excellent as an instructor in 1883 and took the opportunity to submit a detailed proposal to Fisher which
152-491: A headquarters at HMS Collingwood , although a number of lodger units are resident within the site including the offices of the First Sea Lord . In the 1829 a Commander George Smith advocated the establishment of a Naval School of Gunnery; accordingly, the following year, the third-rate HMS Excellent was converted into a training ship and moored just north of Portsmouth Dockyard , opposite Fareham Creek. Smith
171-593: A series of battleships, cruisers and destroyers that were attached to the facility. From the late 1950s guided missile training was also provided. The Portsmouth Field Gun Crew, competing in the Royal Navy field gun competition at the Royal Tournament , used to be based at the site. A small museum in the Quarterdeck block preserves artefacts from Excellent's days as a gunnery school; among them
190-594: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Darrell Bunt Frederick Darrell Bunt CB OBE QHC (3 July 1902 – 31 October 1977) was Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1960. Educated at the City of London School and St Chad's College, Durham , Bunt was ordained in 1927. After curacies St Luke's, Victoria Docks and St Augustine's, Wembley Park he became
209-527: Is the Royal Navy State Funeral Gun Carriage which is drawn by naval ratings at state funerals of monarchs and other distinguished UK citizens. The gunnery school closed in 1985 whereupon HMS Excellent was decommissioned. The site then became part of HMS Nelson . The establishment was recommissioned as HMS Excellent in 1994 following the closure of the old HMS Phoenix in nearby Tipner and Horsea Island , and
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#1732771838311228-594: The first-rate Queen Charlotte took over the role of gunnery training ship and was likewise renamed Excellent . In 1863 Hewlett was replaced by Captain Astley Cooper Key , who was in turn succeeded by Captain Arthur Hood some three years later. By this time, a rifle range had been established on the island for the use of HMS Excellent and the first building appeared there, the land having been somewhat drained and levelled. Under Hood's leadership
247-487: The relocation of the school of Fire Fighting and Damage Control from there to Whale Island. The following list goes as far as 1984. It shows the date of appointment, and rank and decorations held at the time. In some cases a captain held several sequential appointments. It does not show captains held on the books of the Excellent who were not commanding officers of Excellent . Maritime Warfare School elements within
266-678: The sailors took their place, for which King Edward VII conferred the Victoria medal upon them on 16 March, 1901 at Portsmouth, at the commencement of a world tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. The Anti-Aircraft Experimental Section of the Munitions Inventions Department was based here from September 1916, under Archibald Hill . Later, full-sized dummy gun turrets were provided for training purposes. Seagoing training also took place up until 1957 on
285-509: The south is a listed building (1892). Firing training took place on the batteries and all different varieties of guns were kept on site for instruction on their maintenance and operation. During the 2 February 1901 funeral of Queen Victoria sailors from HMS Excellent provided an honour guard. When the horses of the Royal Artillery intended to pull the gun carriage that bore her coffin from Windsor railway station became unmanageable,
304-481: Was accepted. (Later in his career Scott was again posted to HMS Excellent on two occasions, returning first as Commander in 1890 and then as Captain of the establishment in the early 1900s.) The first buildings of the shore establishment were begun in 1885, including what is now known as the Quarterdeck Block. Building work then continued alongside the tasks of draining and levelling the land (the site
323-485: Was given oversight and set up Excellent not only as a training establishment but also as a platform for experimental firing of new weapons (the creek was used as a firing range). In 1832 Smith was replaced in command by Captain Thomas Hastings , under whom the school grew both numerically and in reputation, as trained gunners began to prove their effectiveness in combat situations. In 1834 the original Excellent
342-409: Was known colloquially as 'Mud Island'). By 1891 the whole operation had moved ashore and the old ship was paid off. Centred on a large open drill ground, the site includes the officers' mess in a range to the north with rows of barracks blocks for ratings (demolished and rebuilt c. 2010) arrayed behind. To the west, opposite the Quarterdeck, were long gun battery sheds; the long low drill shed to
361-625: Was replaced by the second rate HMS Boyne which was duly renamed Excellent . In 1845 Captain Henry Ducie Chads took over command of Excellent in succession to Hastings. He remained in post until 1854, by which time the Admiralty had purchased 'Whaley Island' (which at the time was little more than a sandbank). Chads was succeeded first by Captain Thomas Maitland and then, in 1857, by Richard Hewlett. In December 1859
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