The Department of the Director of Naval Equipment also known as the Directorate of Naval Equipment was the former British Admiralty department responsible...
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Retrieved 1 March 2017. "Records of Air Department, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Naval Air Service and Department of Aircraft Equipment". The National Archives. Retrieved...
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The Director of Naval Construction (DNC) also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Construction and Directorate of Naval Construction and originally...
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Contract-built ships Department of the Director of Electrical Engineering Department of the Director of Naval Equipment Department of the Director of Scientific...
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The Naval Intelligence Division (NID) was created as a component part of the Admiralty War Staff in 1912. It was the intelligence arm of the British Admiralty...
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Service Royal Naval Reserve Royal Marines Reserve Department of the Director Combined Operations Personnel Department of the Director Naval Education Britannia...
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as the Medical Director General (Naval) (which was the official title by the start of the 21st century). The Medical Department of the Navy was initially...
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renamed the Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons Materials. In 1958 the Naval Ordnance Department and this department became divisions of the new...
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First Sea Lord (redirect from First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff)
The First Sea Lord, officially known as the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1SL/CNS) is a statutory position in the British Armed Forces, usually...
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Board Department of the Director of Mineweeping Department of the Director of Naval Equipment Department of the Director, Naval Stores Department of the Director...
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Rosyth Dockyard (redirect from Rosyth Naval Dockyard)
is a large naval dockyard on the Firth of Forth at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, owned by Babcock Marine, which formerly undertook refitting of Royal Navy surface...
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HM Nautical Almanac Office (redirect from Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac)
Bell (2006–present) The Astronomical Almanac (jointly with the United States Naval Observatory) The Nautical Almanac (jointly with the USNO) Astronomical...
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The Naval Ordnance Department, also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Ordnance, was a former department of the Admiralty responsible for...
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Vesey (1896). Naval Administration: The Constitution, Character, and Functions of the Board of Admiralty, and of the Civil Departments it Directs. G....
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The Naval Mobilisation Department also known as the Mobilisation and Movements Department was a former department of the British Admiralty initially from...
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The Department of the Director of Dockyards, also known as the Dockyard Branch and later as the Dockyards and Fleet Maintenance Department, was the British...
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The Naval Intelligence Department (NID) was the intelligence arm of the British Admiralty from 1887 until 1912 when most of its subsidiary divisions were...
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New Zealand Naval Forces was the name given to a division of the Royal Navy. The division was formed in 1913 and it operated under this name until 1921...
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Royal Navy (redirect from British naval supremacy)
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's...
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Navy Board (redirect from Council of the Marine)
Marine Causes and Surveyor and Rigger of the Navy were all added in 1544, and a seventh officer, the Master of Naval Ordnance a year later. By January 1545...
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Admiralty (United Kingdom) (redirect from Department of Admiralty)
of the new Naval Staff, Navy Department of the Ministry of Defence. Offices of the Naval Staff Office of Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff. Office of the...
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British Forces Gibraltar (category Joint commands of the United Kingdom)
Thereafter the new command took on a more tri-service character. British Armed Forces in Gibraltar had been predominantly naval-led since the 1890s. In the 1950s...
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Royal Naval College Dartmouth, also known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal...
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Grand Fleet (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
oversee the defence of the islands, naval bases and shore duties. Vice-Admiral Stanley Colville was appointed to the command (7 September 1914 – 19 January...
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Fifth Sea Lord (redirect from Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff)
with the Naval Staff) Naval Air Organisation and Training Division (co-responsibility with the Naval Staff) Department of the Director of Air Equipment and...
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The Naval Ordnance Stores Department, was a former department of the Admiralty responsible for the management of naval ordnance storage facilities and...
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West Africa Squadron (redirect from Commodore, on the West Coast of Africa Station)
000 mi) of coast. He served from 1818 to 1821. In 1819, the Royal Navy created a naval station in West Africa at Freetown, the capital of the first British...
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In 1953, the first purpose-built survey vessel was launched: HMS Vidal. With the use of the echo sounder and other electronic equipment in the 20th century...
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HMNB Devonport (redirect from His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport)
His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde...
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The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from...
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