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  • ...w|Preceded by<br>'''Sir James Drummond as Fourth Naval Lord'''|'''[[Fourth Sea Lord|Junior Naval Lord]]'''<br>1868|Succeeded by<br>'''[[John Walter Tarlet ...James Meade, Fourth Earl of Clanwilliam|Richard J. Meade]]'''|'''[[Second Sea Lord|Second Naval Lord]]'''<br>13 May, 1880{{UKNavalStaff|p. 119}}|Succeede
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  • ...for three years of which two must have been in command of a Ship of War at Sea The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence i
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  • The Lords of the Admiralty were pleased to commend [[Devonport Royal Dockyard]] for t After the battle she participated in North Sea sweeps with the rest of the Grand Fleet, spending the rest of her time in t
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  • ...uadron) to discuss the forthcoming operation before the fleet proceeded to sea that evening.<ref>"Grand Fleet Operations, August, 1914 - Narrative of Even ...fidence in your contemplated condict of the Fleet in action.<br><br>2. My Lords will, as desired, give orders for all available Ships and Torpedo Craft to
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  • ...llege, and to offer such suggestions as may be deemed desirable.<br><br>My Lords also desire that arrangements shall be made for the formation of a Naval St ...</ref> and that "officers were regularly taken off the course in favour of sea commands and on occasion men who were not intended for further employment w
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  • ...entirely independent of all external arrangements, and unit efficiency at sea, far more even than on land, is the prime and final factor, without which t ...e officers who arrive, or are likely to arrive, by the excellence of their sea service, at stations of high responsibility, for dealing with the more exte
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  • ...ter the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in 1914 he returned as [[First Sea Lord]]. ...liam Parker, the last of Nelson's Captains, so she asked him to take me to sea, and he did! Strange to say, another dear old lady took a fancy to me, and
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  • ...mander-in-Chief of the [[Home Fleet (Royal Navy)|Home Fleet]], and [[First Sea Lord]]. In 1912 he was dismissed in acrimonious circumstances by [[First L ...ation]]. The Commander-in-Chief was Rear-Admiral [[Michael Culme-Seymour, Third Baronet|Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Bart.]]<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/39}}. f. 1167
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  • ...[[First World War]], followed by his elevation to the position of [[First Sea Lord]] in 1917. ...her, Rear-Admiral James Erskine Wemyss, was great-great-grandson of David, Third Earl of Wemyss, Vice-Admiral of Scotland, and his maternal great-grandfathe
    29 KB (4,511 words) - 12:46, 7 April 2022
  • ...reached the twin pinnacles of a naval officer's career, serving as [[First Sea Lord]] from 1915 to 1916 during the [[First World War]] and being promoted .../2,000 marks and 783/1,000 marks respectively. He was allowed six months' sea time for study, three months for seamanship, and three months for conduct.
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  • ...s head Clerk. That was one if not the principal reason, why I was sent to sea so soon after J.F.'s advent."<ref>{{TNA|CAB 1/31.}} f. 79.</ref> On 2 Jan ==Second Sea Lord==
    29 KB (4,401 words) - 03:43, 24 February 2023
  • ...ir Thomas M. C.) Symonds [q.v.] , and in the Channel, Mediterranean, Black Sea, and in the Crimea in front of Sevastopol, remained attached to her for nea In May 1871 he was nominated a C.B.; and in 1874, as he still wanted some sea time to qualify him for his flag, he was appointed to the {{UK-1Monarch}} i
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  • ...First Sea Lord was also denominated '''Chief of Naval Staff'''. The First Sea Lord was the senior naval officer on the [[Board of Admiralty]], and served ...1904]], the title of the First Naval Lord was formally changed to '''First Sea Lord'''. Business-wise:
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  • ...', until 1904 '''Second Naval Lord''', and between 1904 and 1917 '''Second Sea Lord''', was the member of the [[Board of Admiralty]] responsible for the p ...the First Naval Lord, assisted by the Junior Naval Lord. The other Naval Lords were also given an increase in pay.<ref>Hamilton. pp. 189-190.</ref>
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  • The '''Deputy First Sea Lord''' was an officer on the [[Board of Admiralty]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...emyss]] was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty as Deputy First Sea Lord on 6 September, 1917. An office memorandum from that date reads:
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  • The position of '''Fourth Sea Lord''', until 1904 the '''Junior Sea Lord''' or '''Junior Naval Lord''', was a member of the [[Board of Admiralt ...872]], which succeeded it he, along with the First Naval Lord and [[Second Sea Lord|Second Naval Lord]], was "to be responsible to the First Lord of the A
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  • ...ership was merged with Third Sea Lord in 1918, once more becoming '''Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy'''. ==History of the Third Sea Lord==
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  • ...Asquith that the First Lord must be in the Commons. As I was by now in the Lords this looked like a difficulty. But I said the situation was too critical t Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Hamilton, Churchill's last Second Sea Lord in the Great War, wrote in 1915:
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  • ...nd 1869 the Board consisted of the First Lord of the Admiralty, four Naval Lords, a Civil Lord, a First or Parliamentary Secretary and a Second or Permanent ...)|Controller of the Navy]] merged with that of Second Naval Lord to become Third Lord and Controller. The Second Naval Lord's duties regarding personnel we
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  • ...c83|p. 232}} The same year he worked with Captain [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Arthur Wilson]] of ''Vernon'' in evaluating a new Fiume Mark III to ...n October, 1904 to consider the characteristics of the new type; a greater sea-going capacity was given to the torpedo-boat destroyer class; the use of oi
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