Joseph Needham Tayler
Military Person
1783 – 1864
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Who was Joseph Needham Tayler?
Vice-Admiral Joseph Needham Tayler CB was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mainly as a junior officer, before finally achieving command of his own ship in 1810, serving off the coast of northern Spain. His active career was cut short by serious injury in 1813, and he then concentrated on his inventions and innovations in naval technology. He commanded a naval gunnery school in the late 1830s, before being retired in 1846.
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- Born
- Aug 15, 1783
Devizes - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Mar 19, 1864
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on July 23, 2013
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