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 the Naval Staff Intelligence Division Assistant Chief of the 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

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