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The Naval Ordnance Department ,[ 1] also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Ordnance ,[ 2] was a former department of the Admiralty responsible for the procurement of naval ordnance of the Royal Navy . The department was managed by a Director, supported by various assistants and deputies; it existed from 1891 to 1958.
Before 1855 the supply of guns and ammunition to the Royal Navy was the responsibility of the Ordnance Board , which was also concerned with supplying ordnance to the Army and which tended to concentrate on the latter function, although naval officers served on the board and on the Ordnance Select Committee which succeeded it. The Ordnance Board was abolished in May 1855, its responsibilities for naval ordnance passed to the War Office , where a naval officer was appointed Naval Director-General of Artillery within the Artillery Branch . He retained that title from 1858 to 1868, when he was also Director of Stores, War Office ; he was also the Vice-President of the Ordnance Select Committee .[ 3]
A Director-General, subsequently Director of Naval Ordnance, in the Controller's Department of the Admiralty was first appointed in 1866, but he did not take over procurement of naval ordnance from the War Office until 1888 or custody and supply until 1891, when a Naval Ordnance Department was finally established at the Admiralty.[ 3]
By stages from 1908 the Admiralty also took over responsibility from the War Office for inspecting naval ordnance when a Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance was appointed. The Royal Ordnance Factories , under the control of the War Office, continued, however, to manufacture naval ordnance though a large proportion, including most of the heaviest guns, was let to private contract.[ 3]
From 1917 until the department was responsible for mines and torpedoes. Between 1918 and 1923 and again from 1939 there was a separate Armament Supply Department .The Naval Ordnance Inspection Department was set up in 1922 to control quality in the manufacture and testing of weapons and ammunition for the fleet. Chemical and metallurgical analysis was carried out at its laboratories at Sheffield (the Bragg laboratory) and Caerwent.[ 3]
During the First World War the directorate was divided, and a separate Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining was created. After the Second World War in 1946 this became the Underwater Weapons Department . The Bragg laboratory, so-called from 1938, continued unchanged until 1968, when its chemical analysis work became part of the Army Department's Directorate of Chemical Inspection at Woolwich. From 1941 to 1945 there was a Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development .[ 3]
In 1958 the two were re-united as divisions of the Weapons Department , under the Director General of Weapons (Director General, Weapons from 1960 to 1964). Bragg continued as the Naval Ordnance Inspection (later Service) and Metallurgical Unit (NOIMU, later NOSMU) until 1984 when it was closed and its work transferred to Woolwich. Caerwent laboratory continued investigating propellants until 1971.[ 3]
Included:[ 4]
Directors of Naval Ordnance [ edit ]
Directors of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes [ edit ]
Included:[ 4]
Rear-Admiral John A. Fisher , November 1886-May 1891
Rear-Admiral Compton E. Domvile , May 1891-March 1894
Captain Henry Coey Kane , March 1894-August 1897
Rear-Admiral Edmund Jeffreys , August 1897-January 1901
Captain William H. May , January–April 1901
Rear-Admiral Angus MacLeod , April 1901-January 1904
Rear-Admiral Henry Deacon Barry , January 1904-February 1905
Rear-Admiral John R. Jellicoe . February 1905-August 1907
Captain Reginald H.S. Bacon , August 1907-December 1909
Captain Archibald G.H.W. Moore , December 1909-June 1912
Captain Frederick C.T.Tudor , June 1912-August 1914
Captain Morgan Singer , August 1914-March 1917
Directors of Naval Ordnance [ edit ]
Included:[ 4]
Captain Frederic Charles Dreyer , March 1917-June 1918
Captain Henry R. Crooke , June 1918-September 1920
Captain Roger R.C.Backhouse , September 1920-December 1922
Captain Joseph C.W.Henley , December 1922-May 1925,
Captain Charles M. Forbes , July 1925-July 1928
Captain Julian F.C.Patterson , July 1928-April 1931,
Captain F. Thomas B. Tower , April 1931-July 1933
Captain Bruce A. Fraser , July 1933-March 1936
Captain Charles E. B. Simeon , March 1936-May 1939,
Captain John C. Leach , May 1939-January 1941
Captain William R. Slayter , January–August 1941
Captain Oliver Bevir , August 1941-March 1944
Captain Charles H. L. Woodhouse , March 1944-February 1945
Rear-Admiral Charles H. L. Woodhouse , March 1945-February 1946
Captain Dennis M. Lees, February 1946-December 1948
Captain Henry A. King , December 1948-June 1951
Captain William J. Yendell , June 1951-March 1954
Captain John Graham Hamilton , March 1954-March 1956
Captain Richard E. Washbourn , March 1956-May 1958
Rear-Admiral Gilbert C. de Jersey , May–July 1958
Assistant Directors [ edit ]
Included:[ 5]
Assistant Directors of Torpedoes [ edit ]
Captain Arthur K. Wilson , 1887–1888
Captain Edmund F. Jeffreys , 1889–1893
Captain William H. 1893–1895
Captain The Hon. Maurice A. Bourke , 1895-1896
Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker , 1895-1897
Captain Ernest A. Simons , 1898
Captain George Le C. Egerton , 1898– 1899
Captain Alexander W. Chisholm-Batten , 1899–1901
Captain George Le C. Egerton , 1901–1902
Captain Henry B. Jackson , 1902–1903
Captain The Hon. Alexander E. Bethell , 1903–1906
Captain Bernard Currey , 21 December 1906–1908
Captain Stuart Nicholson , 21 December 1908–1911
Captain Edward F. B. Charlton , 1911–1914
Captain Philip W. Dumas , 15 August 1914–1917
Captain Algernon H. C. Candy, 8 February 1917–1919
Captain Brien M. Money, 1919–1921
Captain Arthur T. Walker, 1921–1922
Assistant Directors of Naval Ordnance [ edit ]
Captain Frederick C. T. Tudor , 1906–1909
Captain Arthur W. Craig, 1909–1911
Captain James C. Ley , 1911–1912
Captain James D. Dick, 1912–1914
Commander Basil E. Reinold, 1914-1915
Captain Herbert R. Norbury, 1915-1916
Captain Joseph C. W. Henley, 1917–1919
Included:[ 4]
Deputy Directors of Naval Ordnance [ edit ]
Captain Cecil V. Usborne , January 1919-May 1921
Captain Roger R.C. Backhouse , August–September 1920
Captain G.T. Carlisle P. Swabey , May 1921-October 1923
Captain George R.B. Blount, October 1923-August 1925
Captain Charles A. Scott, August 1925-April 1928
Captain A. Ramsay Dewar, April 1928-September 1929
Captain Frank Elliott, September 1929-March 1932
Captain A. Francis Pridham, March 1932-April 1933
Captain Eric R. Bent, April 1933-October 1934
Captain Gerard W.T. Robertson, October 1934-March 1936
Captain Harold R.G. Kinahan , March 1936-June 1937
Captain Francis W.H. Jeans, June 1937-July 1938
Captain Michael M. Denny , July 1938-March 1940
Captain William R. Slayter , March 1940-January 1941
Captain Frederick R. Parham , January 1941-August 1942
Captain Patrick V. McLaughlin, August 1942-March 1943
Captain Robert F. Elkins, March 1943-November 1944
Captain Kenneth L. Harkness, April 1943-February 1945
Captain Henry N.S. Brown, February 1945-October 1947
Captain Alan F. Campbell, September 1946-September 1948
Captain Thomas V. Briggs, October 1947 – 1949
Captain William J. Lamb, September 1948 – 1950
Captain Desmond P. Dreyer , July 1949-September 1952
Captain Richard E. Washbourn , September 1950 – 1953
Captain Francis W.R. Larken, September 1952-November 1955
Captain Thomas W. Best, November 1955 – 1958
Subsidiary departments [ edit ]
Note: At various times were under the control of the Director of Naval Ordnance.
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