that the original anachronistically says 'Sea Lord'; at the time the title was Naval Lord. "His re-organisation of the Admiralty was unpopular and poorly done."

Childers was responsible for the construction of HMS ''Captain'' in defiance of the advice of his professional advisers, the Controller (Robinson) and the Chief Constructor Edward James Reed. Captain was commissioned in April 1870, and sank on the night of 6/7 September 1870. She was,