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| − | In ship construction, the Director of Naval Ordnance was responsible for turret armour, with the [[Director of Naval Construction]] being responsible for the rest.<ref>Brown; McCallum. "Ammunition Explosions in World War I". p.67.</ref>
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| − | Lord Jellicoe (D.N.O., 1905 - 1907) wrote in his unpublished memoirs:
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| − | :In those days the staff of the D.N.O. composed an Assistant Director of Torpedoes, three officers of Commanders or Lieutenants rank for gunnery work, three for torpedo work and a marines' officer for general duties.<ref>British Library. Jellicoe Papers. Add. MSS. 49038. f. 53.</ref>
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| − | In a note of 12 December, 1911, the First Lord, [[Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill|Winston S. Churchill]], ordered that the title of Director of Naval Ordnance be altered to "Director of Naval Armaments" as from 1 January, 1912, so that the initialism "D.N.O." could be applied to the "Director of Naval Operations Division" of the new [[Admiralty War Staff]]. However, at the suggestion of [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]] this latter title was changed to [[Operations Division (Royal Navy)|Director of the Operations Division]] (D.O.D.).<ref>Churchill to the Permanent Secretary to the Board of Admiralty. The National Archives. ADM 1/8377/120. f. 46.</ref>
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| − | On 1 March, 1917, when Captain [[Frederic Charles Dreyer|F. C. Dreyer]] succeeded Singer, the torpedo branch was devolved into the [[Director of Torpedoes and Mining (Royal Navy)|Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining]] under Rear-Admiral [[Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, Thirteenth Baron Stafford|The Hon. Edward S. Fitzherbert]] and Dreyer became solely [[Director of Naval Ordnance (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Ordnance]].<ref>Jellicoe. ''The Crisis of the Naval War''. p. 228.</ref>
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| − | ==Directors of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes==
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| − | <div name=fredbot:office0 otitle="[[Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes|Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]]" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|[[Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes|Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]]}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher|nick=John A. Fisher|appt=1 November, 1886<ref>Fisher Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 452.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Compton Edward Domvile|nick=Compton E. Domvile|appt=21 May, 1891<ref>Domvile Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 332.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Coey Kane|nick=Henry C. Kane|appt=5 March, 1894<ref>Kane Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 741.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|nick=Edmund F. Jeffreys|appt=18 August, 1897<ref>Jeffreys Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 686.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=William Henry May|nick=William H. May|appt=21 January, 1901<ref>May Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 860.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Angus MacLeod|nick=Angus MacLeod|appt=17 April, 1901<ref>MacLeod Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 824.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Henry Deacon Barry|nick=Henry D. Barry|appt=1 January, 1904<ref>Barry Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 195/38.}} f. 83.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe|nick=John R. Jellicoe|appt=24 February, 1905<ref>Jellicoe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 693.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon|nick=Reginald H. S. Bacon|appt=25 August, 1907<ref>Bacon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 262.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore|nick=A. G. H. W. Moore|appt=16 December, 1909<ref>Moore Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 64.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor|nick=Frederick C. T. Tudor|appt=12 June, 1912<ref>Tudor Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 90.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Morgan Singer|nick=Morgan Singer|appt=11 August, 1914<ref>Singer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 220.</ref>}}
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| − | ==Assistant Directors==
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| − | <div name=fredbot:office1 otitle="[[Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes|Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]]" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|[[Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes|Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]]}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James Clement Ley|nick=James C. Ley|appt=9 December, 1911<ref>Ley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 74.</ref>}}
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | *[[Instructions for the Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]].
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| − | ==Footnotes==
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| − | ==Bibliography==
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| − | [[Category:Directors of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes (Royal Navy)|*]]
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