John Arbuthnot Fisher (1841-1920)


            https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/123217

JSON SKOS

Name (English): John Arbuthnot Fisher
Short name: John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Year of birth: 1841
Year of death: 1920
Short Description: "John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920), commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers.

Fisher has a reputation as an innovator, strategist and developer of the navy rather than as a seagoing admiral involved in major battles, although in his career he experienced all these things. When appointed First Sea Lord in 1904 he removed 150 ships then on active service which were no longer useful and set about constructing modern replacements, developing a modern fleet prepared to meet Germany during the First World War." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)
Entity Encoding: piz

[Last update: 2021/08/28]