Cecil Frederick Dampier

Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier CMG (11 May 1868 – 11 April 1950) was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War.

[2] He was captain of Audacious, which spent her entire career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets.

She was sunk by a German mine off the northern coast of County Donegal, Ireland, in October 1914.

[3] Dampier was Second-in-Command of a Battle Squadron during the early parts of the First World War, and Admiral-Superintendent at Dover in 1917.

[4] In May 1918 he was involved in remote control trials of unmanned aerial vehicles by the Royal Navy's D.C.B.