# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-forbes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:43:44.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-forbes"
name: "Charles Forbes"
slug: "charles-forbes"
description: "Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Morton Forbes, was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War, seeing action in the Dardanelles campaign and at the Battle of Jutland and, as captain of a cruiser, was present at the surrender of the German fleet. During the Second World War, he served as Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet: his fleet suffered heavy losses including the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and nine destroyers during the Norwegian campaign in Spring 1940. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in May 1941 and in that capacity he organised the defence of Plymouth from air attack, prosecuted attacks on enemy shipping using the harbour at Brest as well as other ports along the French coast, and also initiated the St Nazaire Raid in March 1942 before retiring in August 1943."
tagline: "Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (1880-1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charlesforbes1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1880-11-22"
deathDate: "1960-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6118143459915613
  historical:           8.951441333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Чарльз Форбс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز فوربيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forbes"
    title: "Charles Forbes"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forbes_(Royal_Navy_officer)"
    title: "Charles Forbes (Royal Navy officer)"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "چارلز مورتون فوربس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forbes_(officier_britannique)"
    title: "Charles Forbes (officier britannique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forbes"
    title: "Charles Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forbes"
    title: "Charles Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forbes"
    title: "Charles Forbes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Forbes"
    title: "Charles Forbes"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q980260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump