Chatham Royal Dockyard

Chatham Royal Dockyard was one of the Royal Navy's major shipyards from Elizabethan times until its closure in 1984. It formed, with Sheerness Royal Dockyard, part of the Nore Command, on the Medway. With Portsmouth and Plymouth it was one of the navy's three Home Ports. In the twentieth century it became the navy's main submarine dockyard.

Admirals Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard

Dates of appointment given:

• Thomas Brandreth, 1 February, 1879
• William Codrington, ?
• Rear-Admiral George W. Watson, 1 December, 1881 – 1 May, 1886
• Rear-Admiral Edward Kelly, 1 November, 1887
• Vice-Admiral George D. Morant, 25 January, 1892
• Rear-Admiral Hilary G. Andoe, 2 September, 1895
• Rear-Admiral Swinton C. Holland, 2 September, 1899
• Vice-Admiral Robert W. Craigie, 1 September, 1902 – 2 September, 1905
• Rear-Admiral Alvin C. Corry, 2 September, 1905
• Vice-Admiral George A. Giffard, 5 February, 1907 – 9 August, 1909
• Rear-Admiral Robert N. Ommanney, 9 August, 1909 – 9 August, 1912
• Rear-Admiral Charles E. Anson, 9 August, 1912 – 9 August, 1915
• Captain Harry Jones, 16 August, 1913 – 15 September, 1913
• Vice-Admiral Arthur D. Ricardo, 9 August, 1915 – 1 May, 1919
• Rear-Admiral Sir William E. Goodenough, 1 May, 1919 – 26 May, 1920
• Rear-Admiral Lewis Clinton-Baker, 26 May, 1920
• Rear-Admiral Edward B. Kiddle, 28 September, 1921 – 1 December, 1923
• Rear-Admiral Percy M. R. Royds, 1 December, 1923 – 7 December, 1925
• Rear-Admiral Charles P. Beaty-Pownall, 7 December, 1925 – 7 December, 1927
• Rear-Admiral Anselan J. B. Stirling, 7 December, 1927
• Vice-Admiral Charles W. Round-Turner, October, 1931 – October, 1935
• Vice-Admiral Sir Clinton F. S. Danby, 1 October, 1935 – 15 October, 1942
• Vice-Admiral John G. Crace, 15 October, 1942 – July, 1946

Deputies Superintendent

And Queen or King's Harbour Master.

• Captain Arthur D. Ricardo, 30 July, 1909 – 31 July, 1911
• Captain Mortimer L'E. Silver, 24 October, 1916 – 10 October, 1919
• Captain Ernest W. Leir, 14 February, 1923 – 1 February, 1924

Captains of Chatham Dockyard

• Captain Frank H. Henderson, 10 February, 1904 – 11 June, 1905  (and as King's Harbour Master)
• Captain Thomas Y. Greet, 1 September, 1905 – 30 June, 1907
• Captain Ernest H. Grafton, 16 September, 1913 – 23 October, 1916
• Captain Mortimer L'E. Silver, 24 October, 1916 – 10 October, 1919
• Captain Ernest W. Leir, 14 February, 1923 – 1 February, 1924
• Captain Alfred F. B. Carpenter, 1 February, 1924 – 1 February, 1926
• Captain Robert C. Hamilton, 1 February, 1926 – 1 February, 1928  (and as King's Harbour Master)
• Captain Arthur K. Betty, 1 February, 1928 – 9 August, 1929  (and as King's Harbour Master)
• Captain Niel O'Neill, 9 August, 1929 – 14 August, 1931  (and as King's Harbour Master, Chatham)
• Captain Aubrey T. Tillard, 10 August, 1931 – 15 October, 1932  (and as King's Harbour Master, Chatham)
• Captain Algernon R. Smithwick, 15 October, 1932 – 7 March, 1935  (and as King's Harbour Master, Chatham)
• Captain Charles G. Stuart, 7 March, 1935 – 21 May, 1937  (and as King's Harbour Master, Chatham)
• Captain Edye K. Boddam-Whetham, 21 May, 1937 – 31 July, 1939
• Captain Cecil S. Sandford, 31 July, 1939 – 9 July, 1941  (and as King's Harbour Master and Deputy Superintendent)
• Captain (retired) Lawrence F. N. Ommanney, 15 August, 1941 – 10 March, 1943  (and as King's Harbour Master and Deputy Superintendent)

Assistant Captains of Chatham Dockyard

• Commander Henry Luxmoore, 9 May, 1919 – 10 May, 1921  (and as Assistant King's Harbour Master)
• Captain Arthur B. Hughes, 10 May, 1921 – 15 March, 1922  (and as Assistant King's Harbour Master)
• Captain Ernest W. Leir, 15 March, 1922 – 10 February, 1923  (and as Assistant King's Harbour Master)
• Captain (retired) Lawrence F. N. Ommanney, 2 March, 1938 – 15 August, 1941  (and as Assistant King's Harbour Master, vice "Allen")

Captains of the Chatham Dockyard Reserve

Also known as the Chatham Steam Reserve and Medway Dockyard Reserve.

Dates of appointment given:

• Captain Hilary G. Andoe, 1 August, 1891
• Captain The Rt. Hon. Lord Charles Beresford, 15 July, 1893 – 15 March, 1896
• Captain Albert B. Jenkings, 5 April, 1896
• Captain George L. Atkinson, 15 December, 1897
• Captain John Durnford, 15 December, 1900
• Captain Walter H. B. Graham, 21 January, 1901

See Also

• Wikipedia
• Clowes, Sir Wm. Laird (1903). The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria. Vol. VII. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited.
• Plan of Dockyard at GWPDA.org