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Revision as of 18:26, 25 May 2014
The Director of Torpedoes and Mining (D.T.M.) was head of the department of the Admiralty created when the Torpedo Department, formerly a branch of the Naval Ordnance Department, was made an executive body in its own right in April 1917. The role would cease to exist in its own right in 1969.[1]
By 1927, the Director of Torpedoes and Mining was positioned with the Director of Naval Construction, Director of Naval Equipment, Director of Naval Ordnance, Chief Superintendent of Armament Supply, Engineer-in-Chief, Director of Electrical Engineering, Director of Dockyards, Director of Compass Department, Director of Signal Department, and Director of Scientific Research under the control of the Third Sea Lord and Controller.[2]
Directors
Dates of appointment given:
- Rear-Admiral the Hon. Edward S. Fitzherbert, 18 February, 1917[3]
- Rear-Admiral Frederick L. Field, 12 June, 1918[4]
- Captain Albert P. Addison, 15 April, 1920[5]
- Captain Leonard A. B. Donaldson, March, 1922 ([6])
- Captain Brien M. Money, May, 1924 ([7])
- Captain Arthur H. Walker, October, 1926 ([8])
- Captain Brian Egerton, December, 1928[9]
- Captain Henry R. Sawbridge, December, 1931[10]
- Captain William B. Mackenzie, April, 1934 ([11])
- Captain W. Frederic Wake-Walker, October, 1935[12] – January, 1938.[13]
- Captain John U. P. Fitzgerald, January, 1938 ([14])
Footnotes
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Hamilton, C. I. The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 292
- ↑ Fitzherbert Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. p. 524.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 15 April, 1920. Issue 42385, col A, p. 6.
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 15 April, 1920. Issue 42385, col A, p. 6.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ National Archives. Papers of Rear Admiral Brian Egerton (1886 - 1973)
- ↑ Naval, Military, And Air Force. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Sep 24, 1931; pg. 17; Issue 45936.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Rickard, J. Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker (1888–1945)
- ↑ Rickard, J. Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker (1888–1945)
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
