19th CENTURY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY - 1895

It can be stated with confidence that the Royal Navy had no vested interest in wireless telegraphy at this point, although they were aware of the experiments being made by Mr Marconi. Captain Jackson was 'very active' at this time as were other fellow officers,  but not in an official capacity although much of what they were doing was endorsed by supportive senior officers. Put another way, the Victorians were pioneers and a very industrious bunch of people, and once the chase was on Captain Jackson did not intend to be left behind.  Of significance although jumping ahead several years to 1904, the Captain of HMS Vernon reported to the Admiralty on the Russian/Japanese war then going on in the Far East, ....."the war has shown that W.T., in war time is likely to be of great value: particularly so to the Power taking the offensive."   That leads one to believe that THE protagonist of naval W/T technology, wasn't fully convinced even as late as 1904, and most certainly, the Admiralty would take their lead from the advice given by HMS Vernon.