Arthur Ewart

[1][5] Ewart was assigned to the troopship HMS Euphrates based at Portsmouth on 4 July the same year, but returned to Excellent on 30 September 1884.

[8] Ewart's tenure at the training establishment was brief, joining the battleship HMS Colossus as gunnery officer on 6 December the same year.

[11] Promoted to commander on 31 December 1895, he joined the cruiser HMS Grafton on 20 April the following year, serving on the China Station.

Described in reports as "very zealous and keen", he was the first person to hold the post, the Royal Navy having received permission to create it in July.

[20] Four days later he provided a report summarising the superiority of German torpedo boats over British ones, but his mistrusted were disregarded by naval authorities.

[17][20][22] Ewart was moved to serve as the naval attaché at Copenhagen, where on 10 December he was created a Knight Commander, 2nd Class, of the Order of the Dannebrog.

[24] He returned to regular naval duties in the following year, being appointed to command the cruiser HMS Doris on 10 June 1904, serving in the Channel Fleet.

[26] In late 1906 Ewart and Doris assisted in the recovery of the main battery guns from the wrecked battleship HMS Montagu off Lundy Island.