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English naval hydrographer
Sir Edmund George Irving
Born (1910-04-05 ) 5 April 1910Died 1 October 1990(1990-10-01) (aged 80 ) Allegiance United Kingdom Service/ Royal Navy Years of service 1924-1966 Rank Rear admiral Office Hydrographer of the Navy Term 1960-1965
Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund George Irving , KBE , CB , FRGS hydrographer .
Early life
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Irving was born in Sandakan , British North Borneo to the resident magistrate George Clerk Irving and his wife Ethel Mary Frances Poole.
Education
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Irving attended St Anthony's preparatory school, Eastbourne, and the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth . He then went to sea as a cadet in HMS Royal Oak in 1927.[1]
Career
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In 1931 Irving joined the Royal Naval Surveying Service. In 1944, when in command of HMS Franklin , Irving resurveyed a number of the ports and harbours in north-west Europe as they fell into allied hands. After his ship berthed in Terneuzen his surveys of the Schelde enabled allied shipping to carry military supplies to Antwerp .
In 1948 Irving carried out sea trials of the newly developed two-range Decca system for fixing the position of surveying ships when out of sight of land in HMS Sharpshooter .
One of the routeing charts for the South Atlantic Ocean, prepared under the supervision of E.G. Irving as Hydrographer of the Navy
In the late 1950s, as a rear admiral , he was appointed Hydrographer of the Navy .[2] HMS Hecla in 1964. He retired in 1966, subsequently working for the Decca company.
Honours
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Irving was president of the Institute of Navigation from 1964 to 1967.[3] Royal Geographical Society (1969–71) and received their Patron's Medal in 1976.
Mount Irving in the South Shetland Islands was named in his honour.
References
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^ "Presidents and Directors of the RIN" . Royal Institute of Navigation. Retrieved 22 November 2021 .
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