Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes (Royal Navy)

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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.[1]

First World War

On 1 March, 1917, when Captain F. C. Dreyer succeeded Singer, the torpedo branch was devolved into the Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining under Rear-Admiral Edward S. Fitzherbert.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ British Library. Jellicoe Papers. Add. MSS. 49038. f. 53.
  2. ↑ Jellicoe. The Crisis of the Naval War. p. 228.

Bibliography

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