1 Updated October 2020 I: ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS, 1865- CONTENTS: (a) ADMIRALTY/MINISTRY OF DEFENCE: page 2 (b) HOME COMMANDS: page 64 (c) FLEETS AND OVERSEAS STATIONS: page 128 (d) SQUADRONS: page 194 (e) TRAINING AND EDUCATION: page 252 (f) ROYAL MARINES: page 279 2 (a) ADMIRALTY/MINISTRY OF DEFENCE INDEX: Air Division/Air Warfare, Naval, Director of: page 41 Deputy Director: page 42 Anti-Submarine Warfare/Torpedoes, Anti-Submarine and Minewarfare/Undersurface Warfare, Director of: page 38 Deputy Director: page 39 Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff- page 18 (Air): page 20 (Capability) (see Third Sea Lord) (Carriers and Aviation) (see Flag Officer, Naval Air Command-page 86) (Foreign): page 19 (Home): page 19 (Operations/ and Air): page 20 (Personnel) (see Naval Secretary) (Policy): page 18 (Submarines) (see Flag Officer, Submarines-page 88) (Trade): page 19 (Warfare/Operational Requirements): page 20 (Weapons): page 19 Contract-Built Ships, Commodore: page 62 Controller of the Navy (see Third Sea Lord) Deputy Controller: pages 53 and 54 Vice-Controller: page 53 Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff: pages 13, 15 and Deputy First Sea Lord: page 6 Drafting, Naval, Commodore: page 63 Equipment, Naval, Director of: page 53 Deputy Director: page 54 Fifth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Air Services: page 13 First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff: page 5 Fourth Sea Lord/Junior Sea Lord: page 11 Fleet Support (see Fourth Sea Lord) 3 Gunnery/Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare/Surface Warfare/ Warfare, Director of: page 36 Deputy Director: page 37 Intelligence, Naval, Director of: page 21 Deputy Director: page 22 Manning, Director of: page 49 Manpower and Training, Naval, Director-General of: page 44 Materiel (Fleet), Chief of (see Fourth Sea Lord) Minesweeping, Naval, Director of: page 43 Deputy Director: page 43 Mobilisation, Director of: page 49 Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord: page 59 Naval Assistant to Naval Secretary: page 62 Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord: page 61 Naval Secretary/Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty: page 16 Navigation, Director of: page 57 Deputy Director: page 57 Officer Appointments (Seamen), Director of: Operational Requirements, Director of: page 35 Deputy Director: page 35 Operations/Operations and Trade, Naval, Director of: page 23 Deputy Director/Deputy Director(Foreign): page 26 Deputy Director/Deputy Director(Home): page 25 Ordnance, Naval, Director of: page 51 Deputy Director: page 52 People Capability, Assistant Chief of Staff (see Personnel Strategy) Personal Services, Director of/Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Personal Services)/Director-General of Personnel and Officer Appointments/Director-General of Naval Personnel and Training: page 46 Deputy Director of Personal Services: page 47 Personnel, Director of: page 47 Personnel Strategy, Director of: page 48 Personnel (Officer Appointments), Naval, Deputy Chief of: page 47 Personnel (Personal Services), Naval, Deputy Chief of (see Personal Services) Personnel (Training), Naval, Deputy Chief of (see Manpower and Training 4 Personnel and Officer Appointments, Naval, Director-General of (see Personal Services) Personnel and Training, Naval, Director-General of (see Personal Services) Plans/Plans and Resources, Naval, Director of: page 27 Deputy Director: page 29 Plans, Defence(Naval), Director of: page 30 Deputy Director: page 30 Policy, Defence(Naval), Director of: page 30 Precision Attack, Capability Manager: page 10 Public Relations, Naval, Director of: page 58 Recruiting, Naval, Director of: page 50 Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel: page 7 Service Conditions, Naval, Director of: page 48 Signals, Director of: page 55 Deputy Director: page 56 Staff Duties/Navay Staff (see Tactical Division) Strategic Systems Executive, Chief: page 63 Tactical Division/Tactical and Weapons Policy/Navy Staff Duties/ Naval Staff, Director of: page 32 Deputy Director: page 33 Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy: page 9 Vice-Controller: Deputy Controller: Torpedo Division, Director of: page 43 Deputy Director: page 43 Torpedoes and Mining, Director of: page 39 Deputy Director: page 40 Trade Division, Director of: page 34 Deputy Director: page 34 Training, Naval, Director/Director-General of: pages 44 and 45 Deputy Director: page 45 Training and Recruitment, Flag Officer (see Manpower and Training) Training and Staff Duties/Tactical and Staff Duties, Director of: page 31 Deputy Director: page 33 Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff: page 14 Warfare (see Gunnery) 5 First Sea Lord (and Chief of the Naval Staff from 191 ): Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard S. Dundas: June 1859-June 1861 Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick W. Grey: June 1861-July 1866 Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne: July 1866-December 1868 Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres: December 1868-November 1872 Admiral Sir Alexander Milne: November 1872-September 1876 Admiral Sir Hastings R.H. Yelverton: September 1876-November 1877 Admiral George G. Wellesley: November 1877-August 1879 Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key: August 1879-July 1885 Admiral Sir Arthur W.A. Hood: July 1885-March 1886 Admiral Lord John Hay: March-August 1886 Admiral Sir Arthur W.A. Hood: August 1886-July 1889 Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton: October 1889-September 1891 Admiral Sir Anthony H. Hoskins: September 1891-November 1893 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick W. Richards: November 1893-August 1899 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter T. Kerr: August 1899-October 1904 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher: October 1904-January 1910 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur K. Wilson: January 1910-December 1911 Admiral Sir Francis C.B. Bridgeman: December 1911-December 1912 Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg: December 1912-October 1914 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher: October 1914-May 1915 Admiral Sir Henry B. Jackson: May 1915-December 1916 Admiral of the Fleet Sir John R. Jellicoe: December 1916-December 1917 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rosslyn E. Wemyss: December 1917-November 1919 Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: November 1919-July 1927 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles E. Madden, Bt.: July 1927-July 1930 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick L. Field: July 1930-January 1933 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield: January 1933-September 1938 Admiral Sir Roger R.C. Backhouse: September 1938-June 1939 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Sir A. Dudley P.R. Pound: June 1939-September 1943 Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope: October 1943-May 1946 Admiral of the Fleet Sir John H.D. Cunningham: May 1946-September 1948 Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North Cape: September 1948-December 1951 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick R. McGrigor: December 1951-April 1955 Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma: April 1955-May 1959 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles E. Lambe: May 1959-May 1960 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John: May 1960-August 1963 Admiral Sir J. David Luce: August 1963-1966 6 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl C. Begg: March 1966-August 1968 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu: August 1968-July 1970 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter J. Hill-Norton: July 1970-March 1971 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael P. Pollock: March 1971-March 1974 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward B. Ashmore: March 1974-March 1977 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Terence T. Lewin: March 1977-July 1979 Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry C. Leach: July 1979-December 1982 Admiral of the Fleet Sir John D.E. Fieldhouse: December 1982-August 1985 Admiral of the Fleet Sir William D.M. Staveley: August 1985-May 1989 Admiral of the Fleet Sir J.Julian R. Oswald: May 1989-March 1992 Admiral of the Fleet Sir D. Benjamin Bathurst: March 1992-July 1995 Admiral Sir Jock C.K. Slater: July 1995-October 1998 Admiral Sir Michael C. Boyce: October 1998-January 2001 Admiral Sir Nigel R. Essenhigh: January 2001-September 2002 Admiral Sir Alan W.J. West: September 2002-February 2006 Admiral Sir Jonathon Band: February 2006-July 2009 Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope: July 2009-April 2013 Admiral Sir George M. Zambellas: April 2013-April 2016 Admiral Sir Philip A. Jones: April 2016-June 2019 Admiral Anthony D. Radakin: June 2019- Deputy First Sea Lord (from 1917 until 1919 and from 1942 until 1946): Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn E.Wemyss: October-December 1917 Rear-Admiral Sir George P.W.Hope: January 1918-August 1919 Admiral Sir Charles E. Kennedy-Purvis: July 1942-May 1946 7 Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (from 2016); (and Chief of Naval Personnel and Training from 2012 until 2016; and Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command from 1995 until 2012): Rear-Admiral the Hon. Frederick T. Pelham: June 1859-June 1861 Vice-Admiral Charles Eden: June 1861-July 1866 Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney C. Dacres: July 1866-December 1868 Vacant: 1868-1872 Vice-Admiral Sir John W. Tarleton: May 1872-December 1874 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey T. Phipps Hornby: December 1874-January 1877 Rear-Admiral Arthur W. A. Hood: January 1877-December 1879 Rear-Admiral the Earl of Clanwilliam: December 1879-May 1880 Vice-Admiral Lord John Hay: May 1880-March 1883 Admiral Lord Alcester: March 1883-July 1885 Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony H.Hoskins: July 1885-December 1888 Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton: December 1888-October 1889 Vice-Admiral Henry Fairfax: October 1889-May 1892 Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards: May 1892-November 1893 Vice-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: November 1893-May 1895 Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick G.D. Bedford: May 1895-May 1899 Vice-Admiral Lord Walter T. Kerr: May-August 1899 Vice-Admiral Sir Archibald L. Douglas: August 1899-June 1902 Admiral Sir John A. Fisher: June 1902-October 1903 Vice-Admiral Sir Charles C. Drury: October 1903-May 1907 Admiral Sir William H. May: May 1907-March 1909 Vice-Admiral Sir Francis C. Bridgeman: March 1909-March 1911 Vice-Admiral Sir George le C.