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[3]
- Rear-Admiral Frederick L. Field, 12 June, 1918.[4]
- Captain Albert P. Addison, 15 April, 1920.[4]
- Captain Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson, March 1922[5]
- Captain Brien M. Money, May 1924[6]
- Captain Arthur H. Walker, October 1926[7]
- Captain Brian Egerton, December 1928[8]
- Captain Henry R.Sawbridge, December 1931[9]
- Captain William B. Mackenzie, April 1934[10]
- Captain W. Frederic Wake-Walker, October 1935 to January 1938]][11]
- Captain John U.P.Fitzgerald, January 1938[12]
- Captain Henry C. Phillips, February 1940[13]
- Captain Gervase B. Middleton, February 1942[14]
- Captain William Wellclose Davis |William W. Davis, November 1944[15]
- Captain Lord Ashbourne, September 1945[16]
- Captain Wilfrid J.W. Woods, December 1948[17]
- Captain Terence A.K. Maunsell, November 1950[18]
- Captain Vernon D'A. Donaldson, January 1952[19]
- Captain Edward C. Bayldon, April 1954[20]
- Captain Bertram S. Pemberton, May 1957[21]
- Captain Ian L.M. McGeoch, September 1959[22]
- Captain George O. Symonds, July 1960[23]
- Captain Edmund N. Poland, July 1962[24]
- Captain Richard K.N. Emden, May 1965[25]
- Captain Brian G.H.M. Baynham, February 1967-1969[26]
The role would cease to exist in 1969.
Footnotes
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Hamilton, C. I. The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 292
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Thursday, 15 April, 1920. Issue 42385, col A, p. 6.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ National Archives. Papers of Rear Admiral Brian Egerton (1886 - 1973)
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Rickard, J. Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker (1888–1945)
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
- ↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS.
