25-559: Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen , VC , SGM (8 October 1891 – 5 November 1940) was a Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen was born into a naval family, one of four children his father being Vice-Admiral F. F. Fegen MVO. He
50-1022: A large circulation. Other official newspapers of the UK government are The Edinburgh Gazette and The Belfast Gazette , which, apart from reproducing certain materials of nationwide interest published in The London Gazette , also contain publications specific to Scotland and Northern Ireland , respectively. In turn, The London Gazette carries not only notices of UK-wide interest, but also those relating specifically to entities or people in England and Wales. However, certain notices that are only of specific interest to Scotland or Northern Ireland are also required to be published in The London Gazette . The London , Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes are published by TSO (The Stationery Office) on behalf of His Majesty's Stationery Office . They are subject to Crown copyright . The London Gazette claims to be
75-526: Is available in a number of machine-readable formats, including XML (delivery by email/ FTP ) and XML/ RDFa via Atom feed . The London Gazette was first published as The Oxford Gazette on 7 November 1665. Charles II and the Royal Court had moved to Oxford to escape the Great Plague of London , and courtiers were unwilling to touch London newspapers for fear of contagion. The Gazette
100-604: Is now defunct. Captain (D) or Captain Destroyers, afloat, was an operational appointment commanding a destroyer flotilla or squadron , and there was a corresponding administrative appointment ashore, until at least a decade after the Second World War . The title was probably used informally up until the abolition of frigate and destroyer squadrons with the Fleet FIRST reorganisation circa 2001. Ashore,
125-516: The Julian calendar with the start of year as 25 March. (Modern secondary sources may adjust the start of the calendar year during this period to 1 January, while retaining the original day and month. Using this adjustment, an issue with a printed date of 24 March 1723 ( O.S. ) will be reported as being published in 1724 – the same solar year as an issue published two days later, on 26 March 1724.) In time of war, dispatches from
150-859: The convoy time to scatter. Out-gunned and on fire Jervis Bay maintained the unequal fight for 22 minutes, although the captain's right arm was shattered, and even after he died when the bridge was shot from under him. He went down with his ship but 31 ships of the convoy managed to escape – including San Demetrio . He was remembered in Winston Churchill 's broadcast speech on 13 May 1945 "Five years of War", as having defended Ireland's honour: When I think of these days I think also of other episodes and personalities. I do not forget Lieutenant-Commander Esmonde , V.C., D.S.O., Lance-Corporal Kenneally , V.C., Captain Fegen, V.C., and other Irish heroes that I could easily recite, and all bitterness by Britain for
175-768: The Convoy, made straight for the Enemy, and brought his ship between the Raider and her prey, so that they might scatter and escape. Crippled, in flames, unable to reply, for nearly an hour the Jervis Bay held the German's fire. So she went down, but of the Merchantmen all but four or five were saved. Issue #47 of the comic book Hitman by Garth Ennis and John McCrea contains a fictionalized account of Fegen's last battle and
200-697: The Irish race dies in my heart. I can only pray that in years which I shall not see, the shame will be forgotten and the glories will endure, and that the peoples of the British Isles and of the British Commonwealth of Nations will walk together in mutual comprehension and forgiveness. The citation for Fegen's Victoria Cross was published in the London Gazette on 22 November 1940, reading: The KING has been graciously pleased to approve
225-558: The award of the VICTORIA CROSS to the late Commander (acting Captain) Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen, Royal Navy for valour in challenging hopeless odds and giving his life to save the many ships it was his duty to protect. On the 5th of November, 1940, in heavy seas, Captain Fegen, in His Majesty's Armed Merchant Cruiser Jervis Bay, was escorting thirty-eight Merchantmen. Sighting a powerful German warship he at once drew clear of
250-419: The command of Lieutenant Fegen, with other destroyers, were proceeding to the spot to render assistance, when it was seen that one boat which had been lowered from O.B. Jennings had been swamped. Garland closed with O.B. Jennings , rescued the men from the swamped boat, and then proceeded alongside the ship, which was still blazing, and rescued those who were still on board. She afterwards proceeded to pick up
275-511: The following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 5 November 1940 in the Atlantic , Captain Fegen, commanding the armed merchantman HMS Jervis Bay , was escorting 38 ships of Convoy HX 84 , when they were attacked by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer (often termed a "pocket battleship"). Captain Fegen immediately engaged the enemy head-on, thus giving the ships of
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#1732780187234300-468: The general public. His Majesty's Stationery Office took over the publication of the Gazette in 1889. Publication of the Gazette was transferred to the private sector in 2006, under government supervision, when HMSO was sold and renamed The Stationery Office . Until Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 came into effect on 1 January 1752 ( N.S. ) , the Gazette was published with a date based on
325-495: The navies of many other countries. In the Royal Navy, the officer in command of any warship of the rank of commander and below is informally referred to as "the captain" on board, even though holding a junior rank, but formally is titled "the commanding officer" (or CO). Until the nineteenth century, Royal Navy officers who were captains by rank and in command of a naval vessel were referred to as post-captains ; this practice
350-681: The oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as The Oxford Gazette . The claim to being oldest is also made by the Stamford Mercury (1712) and Berrow's Worcester Journal (1690). The London Gazette is published each weekday, except for bank holidays . Notices for the following, among others, are published: His Majesty's Stationery Office has digitised all issues of The Gazette, and these are available online. The official Gazettes are published by The Stationery Office . The content
375-470: The others who had left the ship in boats, rescuing in all four officers and twenty-two men. Lieutenant Fegen handled his ship in a very able manner under difficult conditions during the rescue of the survivors, while Quartermaster Driscoll worked the helm and saw that all orders to the engine-room were correctly carried out, and his actions during this rescue resulted in both being awarded Silver Sea Gallantry Medals . A little later in his naval career, Fegen
400-574: The rank of captain is often verbally described as "captain RN" to distinguish it from the more junior Army and Royal Marines rank , and in naval contexts, as a "four-ring captain" (referring to the uniform lace) to avoid confusion with the title of a seagoing commanding officer. In the Ministry of Defence , and in joint service establishments, a captain may be referred to as a "DACOS" (standing for deputy assistant chief of staff) or an "AH" (assistant head), from
425-640: The sinking of the Jervis Bay . Captain (Royal Navy) Captain ( Capt ) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy . It ranks above commander and below commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in the British Army and Royal Marines , and to a group captain in the Royal Air Force . There are similarly named equivalent ranks in
450-591: The stolid tenant farmer of 1722 to the lavishly spending faux-genteel farmers of 1822: Man to the plough / Wife to the cow Girl to the yarn / Boy to the barn And your rent will be netted. Man tally-ho / Miss piano Wife silk and satin / Boy Greek and Latin And you'll all be Gazetted . Notices of engagement and marriage were also formerly published in the Gazette . Gazettes, modelled on The London Gazette , were issued for most British colonial possessions. Many of these continued after independence, and to
475-563: The undress tailcoat (without epaulettes). London Gazette The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom , and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. The Gazette is not a conventional newspaper offering general news coverage. It does not have
500-410: The usual job title of OF5-ranked individuals who work with civil servants. The rank insignia features four rings of gold braid with an executive curl in the upper ring. When in mess dress or mess undress, officers of the rank of captain and above wear gold-laced trousers (the trousers are known as "tin trousers", and the gold lace stripes thereon are nicknamed "lightning conductors"), and may wear
525-475: The various conflicts are published in The London Gazette . Soldiers who are mentioned in despatches will also be named in the Gazette. When members of the armed forces are promoted, and these promotions are published here, the person is said to have been "gazetted". Being "gazetted" (or "in the gazette") also meant having official notice of one's bankruptcy published, as in the classic ten-line poem comparing
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#1732780187234550-416: Was "Published by Authority" by Henry Muddiman , and its first publication is noted by Samuel Pepys in his diary . The King returned to London as the plague dissipated, and the Gazette moved too, with the first issue of The London Gazette (labelled No. 24) being published on 5 February 1666. The Gazette was not a newspaper in the modern sense: it was sent by post to subscribers, not printed for sale to
575-588: Was born at 42 Nightingale Rd, Southsea, Hampshire, on 8 October 1891. At the age of 12, he entered Osborne Royal Naval College and in 1909, he was appointed Midshipman on HMS Dreadnought . On 24 March 1918, while the British ship SS War Knight was proceeding up the English Channel in convoy, she collided with the United States oil carrier O.B. Jennings . It appears that the naphtha , which
600-405: Was on board the latter vessel, ignited, and the two ships and surrounding water were soon enveloped in flames. The master of O.B. Jennings gave orders that all the ship's available boats should be lowered, those on the starboard side were burnt, and the crew abandoned the ship in the port boats, whilst the master, chief engineer, chief officer and three others remained on board. HMS Garland , under
625-628: Was seconded to the Royal Australian Navy , and during 1928–29, served as executive officer in the Royal Australian Naval College , which was located on Jervis Bay on the south coast of New South Wales . By coincidence, the vessel on which he later achieved fame (and death) was named after this bay. He was 49 years old, and an acting captain in the Royal Navy during the Second World War when
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