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Arthur Cochrane (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane KCB (24 September 1824 – 20 August 1905) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.
==Naval career==
Born the third son of the tenth Earl of Dundonald, Cochrane joined the Royal Navy in 1839.〔(William Loney RN )〕 He fought at Acre where he was wounded during the Oriental Crisis in 1840〔(The Peerage.com )〕 and then served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War〔 where he devised a method of towing torpedos to their target using kites in 1855.〔(Kites On The Winds of War by M. Robinson )〕
Promoted to Captain in 1854, he was given command of HMS ''Horatio'' at Sheerness and then of HMS ''Niger'' in which he took part in the destruction of the Chinese Fleet in October 1856 during the Second Opium War.〔 He later commanded HMS ''Warrior'' and then HMS ''Cumberland''.〔 He was appointed Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard in 1869 and Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station in 1873.〔 He retired in 1886.〔(Cochrane Family )〕 In retirement he was involved in managing the Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company.〔
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