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Fleets, Commands, &c.

Items to View in London

Check Navy Lists for Seconds-in-Command, Mediterranean and Channel; Captains of Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Also Commander-in-Chief, China.

Naval Staff in 1917

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 Plans Division Trade Division Anti-Submarine Division Minesweeping Division Mercantile Movements Division

Ages of Officers Promoted to Flag Rank

Name Years Months Days
David Beatty 38 11 15
THE HONOURABLE Horace Hood 42 7 15
Roger Keyes 44 6 6
William Grant 44 11 16
Lionel Halsey 45 2 0
Arthur Limpus 45 7 16
THE HONOURABLE SIR Colin R. Keppel 45 7 29
THE HONOURABLE Stanley Colville 45 8 21
Arthur Leveson 45 10 4
Reginald Bacon 45 10 6
Trevylyan Napier 45 10 11

Captains at Jutland

B.C.F.

Gunnery Officers

  • Chatfield

Battle Fleet

Gunnery Officers

  • Dreyer
  • Craig
  • Bernard
  • Ley
  • Doughty
  • Fisher
  • Backhouse, O
  • Culme-Seymour
  • Bruen
  • Dick
  • Phillpotts
  • Woollcombe, M
  • Boyle

Age of Flag Officers in Home Waters

Name Years Months Days
Ballard 52 4 29
Bayly 56 10 8
Bethell 58 11 8

Ships Laid Down for the Royal Navy by Year

Year Battleships Cruisers
1889 2
1890 6
1891 1
1892 0
1893 2
1894 6
1895 2
1896 2
1897 3
1898 5
1899 7
1900 1
1901 2
1902 4
1903 1
1904 3
1905 3
1906 1
1907 3
1908 2
1909 4
1910 3
1911 4
1912 6
1913 5
1914 2
1915
1916
1917
1918

Ships under Construction by Year

Year Great Britain Germany France Russia United States
1889 3
1890 6 6
1891 1 3 1
1892 1
1893 2 1 1
1894 6 1
1895 2 1 1
1896 2 1
1897 3
1898 5 4
1899 7 2
1900 1 2
1901 2 2
1902 4 3
1903 1 1
1904 3 2
1905 3 2
1906 1
1907 3 4
1908 2 3
1909 4 2
1910 3 3
1911 4 4
1912 6 1
1913 6 1
1914 2 2

New

1901 January Channel Squadron
(1 January, 1901 - 31 December, 1904)
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1902 January
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1903 January
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May Home Fleet
(24 May, 1903 - 1 January, 1905)
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1904 January
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1905 January Channel Fleet
(1 January, 1905 - 24 March, 1909)
Atlantic Fleet
(1 January, 1905 - 1 May, 1912)
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1906 January
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March Home Fleet
(5 March, 1907 - 1 May, 1912)
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Fleets

Year Channel Fleet Home Fleet Atlantic Fleet Mediterranean Fleet Col 5 Col 6 Col 7
August 1917 Training Division (August 1917 - 20 May 1918)
April 1918 South-Eastern Area (1 April 1918 - 20 September 1919) South-Western Area (1 April 1918 - 20 September 1919) Midland Area (1 April 1918 - 18 October 1919) North-Eastern Area (1 April 1918 - 23 May 1919) North-Western Area (1 April 1918 - 12 June 1919)
May 1918
Early June 1919 North-Western Area (1 April 1918 - 12 June 1919)
Late June 1919 Northern Area (12 June 1919 - 1 April 1920)
September 1919
October 1919 Southern Area (20 September 1919 - 1 April 1920)
November 1919 Northern Area (12 June 1919 - 1 April 1920)
1919
Coastal Area (15 September 1919 - 14 July 1936) Northern Area (12 June 1919 - 1 April 1920)

Bartimeus

Bartimeus was born Lewis Anselmo da Costa Ricci on 29 April, 1886. He entered H.M.S. "Britannia" on 15 September, 1901, joined H.M.S. "Emperor of India" in the Home Fleet on 15 January, 1903, was rated Midshipman without examination on 28 February, and was appointed to H.M.S. "Albemarle" in the Mediterranean on 12 November. He was invalided on 10 August with Mediterranean Fever, and was eventually found unfit for the Military Branch of the Royal Navy owing to defective eyesight. On 9 December, 1904, he was told he was allowed to apply for an Assistant Clerkship in the Account Branch, even though he wasn't between 16 and 18, the age of entry. He was formally transferred to the Accountant Branch on 27 March, 1905, with the passing of an Order in Council allowing the transfer of officers from other branches "determined by such service and limits of age as we see fit."

He was reappointed to "Albemarle" as a Clerk on 14 April,