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Fleets, Commands, &c.

• Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
• Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
• Commander-in-Chief at the Nore
• Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland
• Admiral Commanding Coastguard and Reserves
• Senior Officer on the Coast of Ireland
• Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard
• Admiral Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard
• Admiral Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard
• Admiral Superintendent of Rosyth Dockyard
• Captain Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard
• Captain Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard

• Admiral Superintendent of Gibraltar Dockyard
• Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard

Items to View in London

Check Navy Lists for Seconds-in-Command, Mediterranean and Channel; Captains of Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Also Commander-in-Chief, China.

• ADM 137/1062. Southwest Approaches, including Lusitania and Hood. The National Archives.
• ADM 167/50. Board Minutes, 1916. The National Archives.
• ADM 203/64. Introduction of a course for senior officers. The National Archives.
• ADM 137/818. War Orders, 1914, Home Fleets and Detached Squadrons. The National Archives.
• ADM 137/293. Grand Fleet Gunnery & Torpedo Orders, 1915-1918. The National Archives.
• ADM 137/2134. Committee on Construction of Battle Cruisers. The National Archives.
• ADM 186/659. Flotilla Signal Book, 1908. The National Archives.
• BRD/20. Typewritten service history for Admiral Sir Edward Eden Bradford, 1872-1918. National Maritime Museum.
• AIR 1/279/15/226/127. Air Services - organisation and duties of the Admiralty, June 1917 - February, 1918. The National Archives.
• CAB 38/19/49. Minutes of the 114th Meeting of the C.I.D. The National Archives.
• ADM 196/611. History of the White Sea Station. The National Archives.
• ADM 186/234. Director Firing Handbook 1917, Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers.
• ADM 186/251. Technical History and Index. The National Archives.
• ADM 127/818. War Orders, 1914, Home Fleets and Detached Squadrons. The National Archives.

Naval Staff in 1917

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

Ages of Officers Promoted to Flag Rank

Name	Years	Months	Days
David Beatty	38	11	15
THE HONOURABLE Horace Hood	42	7	15
Roger Keyes	44	6	6
William Grant	44	11	16
Lionel Halsey	45	2	0
Arthur Limpus	45	7	16
THE HONOURABLE SIR Colin R. Keppel	45	7	29
THE HONOURABLE Stanley Colville	45	8	21
Arthur Leveson	45	10	4
Reginald Bacon	45	10	6
Trevylyan Napier	45	10	11

B.C.F.

Gunnery Officers

• Chatfield

Battle Fleet

Gunnery Officers

• Dreyer
• Craig
• Bernard
• Ley
• Doughty
• Fisher
• Backhouse, O
• Culme-Seymour
• Bruen
• Dick
• Phillpotts
• Woollcombe, M
• Boyle

Age of Flag Officers in Home Waters

Name	Years	Months	Days
Ballard	52	4	29
Bayly	56	10	8
Bethell	58	11	8

Ships Laid Down for the Royal Navy by Year

Year	Battleships	Cruisers
1889	2
1890	6
1891	1
1892	0
1893	2
1894	6
1895	2
1896	2
1897	3
1898	5
1899	7
1900	1
1901	2
1902	4
1903	1
1904	3
1905	3
1906	1
1907	3
1908	2
1909	4
1910	3
1911	4
1912	6
1913	5
1914	2
1915
1916
1917
1918

Ships under Construction by Year

Year	Great Britain	Germany	France	Russia	United States
1889	3
1890	6	6
1891	1	3	1
1892		1
1893	2	1	1
1894	6		1
1895	2	1	1
1896	2	1
1897	3
1898	5	4
1899	7	2
1900	1	2
1901	2	2
1902	4	3
1903	1	1
1904	3	2
1905	3	2
1906	1
1907	3	4
1908	2	3
1909	4	2
1910	3	3
1911	4	4
1912	6	1
1913	6	1
1914	2	2

New

1901	January			Channel Squadron (1 January, 1901 - 31 December, 1904)
	February
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1902	January
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1903	January
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	May	Home Fleet (24 May, 1903 - 1 January, 1905)
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1904	January
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1905	January	Channel Fleet (1 January, 1905 - 24 March, 1909)		Atlantic Fleet (1 January, 1905 - 1 May, 1912)
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1906	January
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1907	January
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	March		Home Fleet (5 March, 1907 - 1 May, 1912)
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1908	January
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1909	January
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	April	Home Fleet
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1910	January
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Fleets

Year	Channel Fleet	Home Fleet	Atlantic Fleet	Mediterranean Fleet	Col 5	Col 6	Col 7
August 1917		Training Division (August 1917 - 20 May 1918)
April 1918			South-Eastern Area (1 April 1918 - 20 September 1919)	South-Western Area (1 April 1918 - 20 September 1919)	Midland Area (1 April 1918 - 18 October 1919)	North-Eastern Area (1 April 1918 - 23 May 1919)	North-Western Area (1 April 1918 - 12 June 1919)
May 1918
Early June 1919						North-Western Area (1 April 1918 - 12 June 1919)
Late June 1919						Northern Area (12 June 1919 - 1 April 1920)
September 1919
October 1919			Southern Area (20 September 1919 - 1 April 1920)
November 1919					Northern Area (12 June 1919 - 1 April 1920)
1919
	Coastal Area (15 September 1919 - 14 July 1936)			Northern Area (12 June 1919 - 1 April 1920)

Bartimeus

Bartimeus was born Lewis Anselmo da Costa Ricci on 29 April, 1886. He entered H.M.S. "Britannia" on 15 September, 1901, joined H.M.S. "Emperor of India" in the Home Fleet on 15 January, 1903, was rated Midshipman without examination on 28 February, and was appointed to H.M.S. "Albemarle" in the Mediterranean on 12 November. He was invalided on 10 August with Mediterranean Fever, and was eventually found unfit for the Military Branch of the Royal Navy owing to defective eyesight. On 9 December, 1904, he was told he was allowed to apply for an Assistant Clerkship in the Account Branch, even though he wasn't between 16 and 18, the age of entry. He was formally transferred to the Accountant Branch on 27 March, 1905, with the passing of an Order in Council allowing the transfer of officers from other branches "determined by such service and limits of age as we see fit."

He was reappointed to "Albemarle" as a Clerk on 14 April,