Director of Torpedoes and Mining (Royal Navy)
The Director of Torpedoes and Mining (DTM) 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, April 1917[1]
- Rear-Admiral Frederick L. Field, 12 June, 1918.[3]
- Captain Albert P. Addison, 15 April, 1920.[3]
- Captain Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson, March 1922[1]
- Captain Brien M. Money, May 1924[1]
- Captain Arthur H. Walker, October 1926[1]
- Captain Brian Egerton, December 1928[4]
- Captain Henry R.Sawbridge, December 1931[1]
- Captain William B. Mackenzie, April 1934
- Captain W. Frederic Wake-Walker, October 1935 to January 1938]][5]
- Captain John U.P.Fitzgerald, January 1938[1]
- Captain Henry C. Phillips, February 1940[1]
- Captain Gervase B. Middleton, February 1942[1]
- Captain William Wellclose Davis |William W. Davis, November 1944[1]
- Captain Lord Ashbourne, September 1945[1]
- Captain Wilfrid J.W. Woods, December 1948[1]
- Captain Terence A.K. Maunsell, November 1950[1]
- Captain Vernon D'A. Donaldson, January 1952[1]
- Captain Edward C. Bayldon, April 1954[1]
- Captain Bertram S. Pemberton, May 1957[1]
- Captain Ian L.M. McGeoch, September 1959[1]
- Captain George O. Symonds, July 1960[1]
- Captain Edmund N. Poland, July 1962[1]
- Captain Richard K.N. Emden, May 1965[1]
- Captain Brian G.H.M. Baynham, February 1967-1969[1]
The role would cease to exist in 1969.
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 Mackie, Colin. Royal Navy- Senior Appointments (1900-2010)
- ↑ Hamilton, C. I. The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 292
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 15 April, 1920. Issue 42385, col A, p. 6.
- ↑ National Archives [Papers of Rear Admiral Brian Egerton (1886 - 1973) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=062-csac29675]
- ↑ Rickard, J. Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker (1888–1945)
