Arthur Cochrane (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral The Honourable Sir Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, KCB (24 September 1824 – 20 August 1905) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.Born the third son of the tenth Earl of Dundonald, Cochrane joined the Royal Navy in 1839.[1] He fought at Acre where he was wounded during the Oriental Crisis in 1840[2] and then served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War[1] where he devised a method of towing torpedoes to their target using kites in 1855.[1] He was appointed Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard in 1869 and Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station in 1873.[5] In a letter to The Times in 1902, Admiral Cochrane wrote about attending the enthronement festivities of King Louis Philippe I of the French in Paris in 1830, being present at the Coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, and the (at that point) recent Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier the same year.
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