Admiral Sir Hugo Lewis Pearson KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (1843 – 12 June 1912) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Naval career

Pearson joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1855. He was Captain of the first-rate

First-rate

First rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line. While the size and establishment of guns and men changed over the 250 years that the rating system held sway, from the early years of the eighteenth century the first rates comprised those ships mounting 100...

 HMS St Vincent

HMS St Vincent (1815)

HMS St Vincent was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1810 at Plymouth Dockyard and launched on 11 March 1815 before a crowd that was put at 50,000 spectators.-Service:...

, the Royal yacht

Royal Yacht

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 Osborne and the second-rate

Second-rate

In the British Royal Navy, a second rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th century second rates had fewer guns and were originally two-deckers or had only partially armed third gun decks. The term in no way implied...

, HMS Colossus

HMS Colossus (1848)

HMS Colossus was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 June 1848 at Pembroke Dockyard.Colossus was fitted with screw propulsion in 1864, and was sold out of the navy in 1867....

. He went on to command the shore establishment HMS Excellent and, later, the battleship

Battleship

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s HMS Collingwood

HMS Collingwood (1882)

HMS Collingwood was an ironclad battleship of the Royal Navy. She was the first example of the Admiral-class and was named after Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Horatio Nelson's second-in-command in the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar....

 and HMS Barfleur

HMS Barfleur (1892)

HMS Barfleur was a predreadnought second-class battleship of the Royal Navy. She was part of the three-ship Centurion class, designed for long-range patrolling of the United Kingdom's far-flung empire. She mainly saw service in the Mediterranean and Home Fleet, along with Service at China Station,...

. He was the Rear Admiral of the Reserve Fleet during the Jubilee Review in 1897.

In 1898 he became Commander in Chief, Australia Station

Australia Station

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 and in 1903 he became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. He retired in 1908.