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The Examination for Lieutenant is an episode of the British television series Hornblower. It is loosely based on part of the 1950 novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester . It was released on DVD in the United States under the title The Fire Ship .
Although he passed the examination for Lieutenant in 1810, owing to the large numbers of officers in the Royal Navy at the time he was still a midshipman when drafted from Bermuda in 1812 with several other officers (including Acting Commanders Robert Heriot Barclay and Daniel Pring) to serve in Canada. He was finally promoted Lieutenant on 12 ...
The Examination for Lieutenant (U.S. title: The Fire Ship) (18 November 1998) The Duchess and the Devil (24 February 1999) The Frogs and the Lobsters (U.S. title: The Wrong War) (2 April 1999) Mutiny (8 April 2001) Retribution (15 April 2001) Loyalty (5 January 2003) Duty (6 January 2003)
Midshipmen studying for their Lieutenant's examination aboard HMS Pallas. Sketch by Gabriel Bray, 1774 Sketch by Gabriel Bray, 1774 Passed midshipman was never an official rank or rating in the Royal Navy , but was commonly used to describe midshipmen who had passed the lieutenant examination but were waiting on a roster to be commissioned.
Ian McNeice (born 2 October 1950) is an English film and television actor. On television, he has played government agent Harcourt in the 1985 television series Edge of Darkness, Bert Large in the comedy-drama Doc Martin, the Newsreader in historical drama Rome (2005–2007) and Winston Churchill in Doctor Who (2010–2011).
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The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. An hour-long drama, it aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions , one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s.
A lieutenant (UK: / l ɛ f ˈ t ɛ n ən t / lef-TEN-ənt, US: / l uː-/ loo-; [1] abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, security services and police forces.