HMS Caesar

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Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Caesar, after the famous Roman general and dictator Julius Caesar.

A Caesar was ordered as a 74-gun 3rd rate from Plymouth Dockyard in 1777, but construction was cancelled in 1783.
The first Caesar was an 80-gun 3rd rate launched in 1793, used as an army depot after 1814, and broken up 1821.
The second Caesar was a 90-gun screw-propelled 2nd rate launched in 1853 and sold in 1870.
The third Caesar was a battleship launched in 1896 and sold 1921.
The fourth Caesar was a C-class destroyer launched in 1944 and broken up in 1967. This was the ship that Melvyn Bowler served on for 2 years, including 18 months in the Far East. Although it did not seem so at the time, it was probably for the best that Melvyn Bowler was discharged from the Royal Navy because of his actions on HMS Caesar. Although the discharge papers said he was "unsatisfactory in his rating of SA(v)" there has always been some doubt about this. However, as Melvyn was certainly drinking heavily throughout this period, and had done punishment a few times, it is likely that his drinking had something to do with his discharge. What would have happenned had Melvyn Bowler remained in the Navy is interesting but futile to conjecture. What we do know is that he became a computer programmer and systems analyst, and then later became a successful counsellor and therapist in Ausralia. All this, of course, was after he had stopped drinking in 1974. His training videos for counsellors are now used world-wide, and he was amongst the first to introduce the concepts of codependency, adult child syndrome, and sex and love addiction to Australia, as well as his experiential therapy workshops. None of this would have happenned if he had not been thrown out of the Royal Navy after his time on HMS Caesar.

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