[3] Lowry while still a lieutenant as the first to suggest the use of large-scale underway replenishment techniques in an 1883 paper to the think tank Royal United Services Institute.

He argued that a successful system would provide a minimum rate of 20 tons per hour while the ships maintain a speed of five knots.

His proposal was for transfer to be effected through watertight coal carriers suspended from a cable between the two ships.

[2] In January 1900 he was given command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Ramillies, flagship of the second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet.

[7] During combined manoeuvres with the Channel squadron in the Aegean sea, the Hood damaged her rudder on the seabed, and in November 1902 she had to return to Chatham for repairs and a refit.