Department of the Director of Naval Equipment

The Captains Superintendent of ships building by contract and of destroyers fell under the aegis of the Director of Naval Equipment.

Directors of Naval Equipment

Dates of appointment given:

• Rear-Admiral Arthur W. Waymouth, 3 September, 1912 – January, 1915
• Captain Clement Greatorex, 14 January, 1915 – 8 October, 1917
• Rear-Admiral Edward M. Phillpotts, 8 October, 1917 – 1 May, 1920
• Rear-Admiral Edward F. Bruen, 1 May, 1920 – 16 May, 1922
• Rear-Admiral Douglas L. Dent, 2 May, 1922
• Rear-Admiral Arthur A. M. Duff, 16 May, 1924
• Rear-Admiral Joseph C. W. Henley, 15 May, 1928 – 14 March, 1930

Also, Henry Wise Parker, Harold Owen Reinold, Francis Thomas Butler Tower, St. Aubyn Baldwin Wake, and Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson apparently held this position at some time.^{[Fact Check]}

Assistant Directors

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Henry R. Crooke, 18 February, 1913 – 1914
• Captain Ernest K. Loring, 1 October, 1914 – 3 April, 1915
• Captain Henry L. Cochrane, 3 April, 1915^[Inference]
• Captain (retired) Christopher P. Metcalfe, late 1916  (for salvage work, working with Henry Lake Cochrane)
• Captain Hugh T. Walwyn, 1917
• Captain Percy Withers, 10 January, 1918 – 7 May, 1919

See Also

• Instructions for the Director of Naval Equipment