Naval Staff (Royal Navy)

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The Jellicoe Era

"The adoption of the title Chief of the Naval Staff by the First Sea Lord necessarily made the functions of the Staff executive instead of advisory."[1]

By October, 1917 the Naval Staff was organised thus:[2]

First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Intelligence Division Assistant Chief of Naval Staff
Operations Division Signal Division Mobilisation Division Plans Division Trade Division Anti-Submarine Division Minesweeping Division Mercantile Movements Division

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jellicoe. The Crisis of the Naval War. p. 12.
  2. ↑ A common-sense combination of tables in Jellicoe. The Crisis of the Naval War. p. 12, and Dewar. Encyclopædia Britannica. XXX. p. 9.

Bibliography

  • Black, Nicholas (2009). The British Naval Staff in the First World War. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843834427.
  • Dewar, Alfred C. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica: The New Volumes. Volume XXX. London: Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Ltd..
  • Hamilton, C. I. (2011). The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521765183. (on Amazon.co.uk).
  • Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division (1929). The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. Its Work and Development. B.R. 1845 (late C.B. 3013). Copy No. 8 at The National Archives. ADM 234/434.

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