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Department Of The Director Of Underwater Weapons Materials
The Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons Materials originally known as the Torpedo Department was a former department of the British Department of Admiralty from 1917 to 1958 when it became the Underwater Weapons Division of the Weapons Department. History During the First World War in April 1917 the Torpedo Department of the Naval Ordnance Department The Naval Ordnance Department, also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Ordnance, was a former department of the Admiralty responsible for the procurement of naval ordnance of the Royal Navy. The department was managed by a Director, ... was made a separate department in its own right this became known as the Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining. Following World War Two in 1946 it was renamed the Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons until October 1956 when it was renamed the Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons Materials. In 1958 the Naval Ordnance Department and this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British 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 titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty, rather than by a single person. The Admiralty was replaced by the Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (later Navy Command). Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs administered the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England, which merged with the Royal Scots Navy and the absorbed the responsibilities of the Lord High Admiral of the Kingdom of Scotland with the unification of the Kingdom of Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London, England
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Ordnance Department
The Naval Ordnance Department, also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Ordnance, was a former department of the Admiralty responsible for the procurement of naval ordnance of the Royal Navy. The department was managed by a Director, supported by various assistants and deputies; it existed from 1891 to 1958. Precursors Before 1855 the supply of guns and ammunition to the Royal Navy was the responsibility of the Ordnance Board, which was also concerned with supplying ordnance to the Army and which tended to concentrate on the latter function, although naval officers served on the board and on the Ordnance Select Committee which succeeded it. The Ordnance Board was abolished in May 1855, its responsibilities for naval ordnance passed to the War Office, where a naval officer was appointed Naval Director-General of Artillery within the Artillery Branch. He retained that title from 1858 to 1868, when he was also Director of Stores, War Office ; he was also the Vice-Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Fitzherbert, 13th Baron Stafford
Admiral Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, 13th Baron Stafford, KCB, GOTE (17 April 1864 – 28 September 1941) was an English peer, holding the title Baron Stafford. He was also a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station. Naval career Fitzherbert joined the Royal Navy in 1877. He was promoted to commander on 30 June 1899, and during the summer of 1902 was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS ''Cambrian'', senior officer′s ship on the South East Coast of America Station. Promoted to Captain in 1904, he was given command of the battleship HMS ''Albemarle'', of the training ship HMS ''Impregnable'' and then of the armoured cruiser HMS ''Bedford'' which ran aground in 1910. He served in World War I as Director of Mines and Torpedoes from October 1915 and saw the introduction of the highly successful Coastal Motor Boat craft and the variant of this, the first unmanned Radio Controlled naval vessels, the Distant Control Boats. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Field (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Laurence Field, (18 April 1871 – 24 October 1945) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served in the Boxer Rebellion as commander of a raiding party and in the First World War as commanding officer of the battleship , flagship of Admiral Martyn Jerram at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet before serving as First Sea Lord during the early 1930s, in which role he dealt with the response to the Invergordon Mutiny in September 1931 and ensured the abandonment in 1932 of the 'ten-year rule', an attempt by the treasury to control defence expenditure by requesting the Foreign Office to declare whether there was any risk of war during the next ten years. Early career Born the second son of Colonel Spencer Field, 6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and Catherine Field (née Darrah), Field was educated privately before joining the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS ''Britannia'' in 1884. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Addison
Admiral Sir Albert Percy Addison, (8 November 1875 – 13 November 1952) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. He was the Rear Admiral Commanding His Majesty's Australian Fleet from 30 April 1922 to 30 April 1924.The Argus (Melbourne, Vic) – Friday 10 February 1922. p6. During the First World War he was recognised by the British Admiralty as an authority on submarines, and his knowledge of that class of ship was used extensively. Naval career Joining the Royal Navy on 15 July 1889 as a naval cadet, he was promoted to sub-lieutenant on 14 March 1895, and lieutenant on 22 June 1897. He received specialised training in torpedoes, and was posted as a lieutenant (T) to the battleship HMS ''Victorious'' on 15 January 1901, as she served on the Mediterranean Station. After service on HMS ''Mercury'', he was later promoted to commander on 31 December 1907 and later to captain on 30 June 1913. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George while commanding HMS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson
Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson, (1 August 1875 – 28 June 1956) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Director of Torpedoes and Mining from 1922 to 1924, and as Admiral-Superintendent of HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth dockyard from 1927 to 1931. Biography Donaldson was born in 1875, and joined the Royal Navy. He was a Lieutenant (Royal Navy), lieutenant when in July 1902 he was posted as junior staff to , the naval torpedo school ship at HMNB Chatham, Chatham dockyard. During World War I he served in various commands in charge of submarine flotillas. Following the war, he was Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons Materials, Director of Torpedoes and Mining at the British Admiralty, Admiralty from 1922 to 1924. In July 1924 he was appointed Captain-Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, serving until its closure in May 1926. The following year he was appointed Admiral-superintendent of HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth dockyard, serving as such f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Horace Walker
Rear-Admiral Arthur Horace Walker, OBE (17 August 1881 – 3 July 1947) was a British Royal Navy officer who was a Director of Torpedoes and Mining from 1926 to 1929, and a senior naval officer at Hong Kong from 1930 to 1932. Naval career Walker joined the Royal Navy, was appointed an acting sub-lieutenant on 15 March 1901 and was confirmed in this rank the following year. He was promoted to lieutenant on 15 March 1902, and in June 1902 was appointed to command the torpedo boat No. 42, serving in the newly created First Submarine Flotilla at Portsmouth. In early 1903 he was reported to transfer to the port flagship at Portsmouth as the No. 42 paid off, and then to the HMS ''Russell'' on her first commission, but this transfer does not appear to have happened until later that year. He was promoted to the rank of Commander on 30 June 1914, in the 1914 Birthday Honours list, and served as Captain of the torpedo vessel HMS ''Vesuvius'' during most of the First World War. Foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Wake-Walker
Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker Order of the Bath, KCB Order of the British Empire, CBE (24 March 1888 – 24 September 1945) was a British admiral who served in the Royal Navy during World War I and World War II, taking a leading part in the destruction of the , and in Operation Dynamo, Operation ''Dynamo'', the evacuation at Dunkirk. Early life and education Born William Frederic Wake-Walker, he was the son of Frederic George Arthur Wake-Walker and Mary Eleanor Forster and the grandson of Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, who was Surveyor of the Navy from 1848 to 1861. After attending Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Haileybury school, Wake-Walker entered the Britannia Royal Naval College, Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, Devon, Dartmouth as a Naval cadet#Royal Navy, cadet in 1903, and went to sea the following year as midshipman aboard , the flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron. World War I By the start of World War I Wake-Walker had ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Davis (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir William Wellclose Davis (11 October 1901 – 29 October 1987) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Vice Chief of the Naval Staff. Early life and education Davis was the elder son of Walter Stewart Davis (1856-1946), JP, of the Indian Political Department, and Georgina (died 1925), daughter of David Ross, CIE. The Davis family were landed gentry, of Well Close, Brockworth, Gloucestershire; Davis's middle name came from the family estate.Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th edition, ed. L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952, pp. 623–624Armorial Families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour, seventh edition, vol. 1, A. C. Fox-Davies, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1905, p. 511 Davis was educated at Summer Fields School in Oxford, the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Naval career Davis was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1917, towards the end of the First World War. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
