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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Navy's department Combined Operations Headquarters (supply of equipment only). Department of the Director of Dockyards, (1885–1954) Department of the Director...
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1832 when the Admiralty took charge of the Royal Dockyards. Prior to this larger dockyards were overseen by a commissioner who represented the Navy Board...
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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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Royal Navy (redirect from Royal Navy of the United Kingdom)
brigadier and based in Plymouth. The Royal Navy has historically maintained Royal Navy Dockyards around the world. Dockyards of the Royal Navy are harbours where...
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stores for the Department of the Director of Dockyards, the Department of the Director of Naval Construction and the Naval Ordnance Department including...
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HMNB Devonport (redirect from Dockyard Port of Plymouth)
(2013). 20th Century Naval Dockyards: Devonport and Portsmouth Characterisation Report - Part 2. Portsmouth, Hants.: Naval Dockyards Society. Retrieved 15...
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number at the Admiralty. The Foreign Intelligence Committee was established in 1882 and it evolved into the Naval Intelligence Department in 1887. The NID staff...
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to one of the purpose-built royal dockyards (the nearest being those on the Thames: Deptford and Woolwich). 1567 is generally seen as the date of Chatham's...
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Admiralty (United Kingdom) (redirect from Department of Admiralty)
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its...
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of all ships. The department worked in partnership with the Department of the Director of Dockyards, both of these departments were overseen by the office...
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1832 when the Admiralty took charge of the Royal Dockyards. Prior to this larger dockyards were overseen by a commissioner who represented the Navy Board...
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Navy Board (redirect from Council of the Marine)
Commissioners of the Navy with oversight of the Royal Navy Dockyards. Normally resident at their respective dockyards and thus known as resident commissioners...
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Royal Navy Dockyards (more usually termed Royal Dockyards) were state-owned harbour facilities where ships of the Royal Navy were built, based, repaired...
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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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Department of the Director of Manning Department of the Director Recruiting Department of the Director Service Conditions Department of the Director of...
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Admiralty buildings (category History of the Royal Navy)
exists as a department, these buildings are now used by separate government departments: The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty; it...
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under the authority of the Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. In February 1915, the RNAS was placed under the command of the Director of the Air Department (Captain...
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direction to the department, managing performance and ensuring that defence delivers the required outputs. Lords Admiral were appointed from the 15th century;...
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Grand Fleet (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
The Grand Fleet was the main battlefleet of the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was established in August 1914 and disbanded in April 1919....
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The Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons Materials originally known as the Torpedo Department was a former department of the British Department...
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Greenwich Hospital, London (redirect from Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital)
sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869. Its buildings, initially Greenwich Palace, in Greenwich, London, were later used by the Royal...
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West Africa Squadron (redirect from Commodore, on the West Coast of Africa Station)
The West Africa Squadron, also known as the Preventative Squadron, was a squadron of the British Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave...
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In 1984 the dockyard passed into the hands of the UK ship repair and conversion company, A&P Group. The takeover of the former naval dockyard at Gibraltar...
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HM Nautical Almanac Office (redirect from Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac)
now part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), where The Nautical...
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich (redirect from The Royal Observatory Greenwich)
as the director of the observatory and to "apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens...
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control of staff and the head of a department might be responsible to two or more Lords Commissioners for the different aspects of his department's work...
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Mediterranean Fleet (redirect from Commanders-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet)
base for the Mediterranean Fleet. Between the 1860s and 1900s, the British undertook a number of projects to improve the harbours and dockyard facilities...
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Home Fleet (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
scattered dockyards and turned into a unified and permanent sea-going command – the Home Squadron – based on Portland. Also under the direction of the commander-in-chief...
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Fourth Sea Lord (redirect from Chief of Fleet Support)
included: Auxiliary Patrol Office Department of the Director of Dockyards Office of the Deputy Director of Dockyards Defence Equipment and Support (Fleet)...
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