An attempt by the Admiralty to reduce the order led to a disagreement with the result that Parnall ceased aircraft manufacture and production passed to Filton where 150 were built during 1919 and 1920.

The three existing service Ministers — the Secretary of State for War, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Air — remained in direct operational control of their respective services, but ceased to attend Cabinet.

In 1946, with the creation of a cabinet level Minister of Defence separate from the prime minister, it ceased to be a cabinet position, and the office was abolished ( along with that of First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for Air ) on 1 April 1964, when the cabinet position was replaced by the Secretary of State for Defence-in charge of a new united Ministry of Defence.

With the outbreak of the First World War, however, Cavendish ceased activities related to all but his honorific appointments and, between 1915 and 1916, sat as the Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty in the Cabinet of H. H. Asquith.

The fort was part of the Admiralty Research Establishment until 2002, when all operational use of the fort ceased.

The service ceased on the outbreak of war in 1939 when the vessels involved were requisitioned by the Admiralty.

In the Royal Navy the rank of vice-admiral should be distinguished from the office of " Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom ", which is an Admiralty position usually held by a retired " full " admiral, and that of " Vice-Admiral of the Coast ", a now obsolete office dealing with naval administration in each of the maritime counties.

An alternative scenario put forward in The Prize by Daniel Yergin has the Admiralty putting forward a " Syndicate of Patriots " to keep D ' Arcy's concession in British hands, apparently with the full and eager co-operation of D ' Arcy himself.

In 1842, the site where Admiralty House now sits was leased to the Collector of Customs for the Colony, Lieutenant-Colonel ( later full Colonel ) Gibbes, MLC.

He then returned to the Admiralty, and was promoted to full Admiral in 1805.

Producer John Brabourne was able to use his influence as son-in-law of Lord Mountbatten, then Chief of the Defence Staff, to obtain the full co-operation of the Admiralty.

Dealing with an intervention at this point Lloyd George said in passing that he did not think that the First Lord was entirely responsible for all the things that happened in Norway ... Churchill intervened to take complete responsibility for " everything that had been done by the Admiralty, and my full share of the burden ".

The High Court has full jurisdiction in Admiralty and can exercise jurisdiction under the Brussels Convention on the Arrest of Seagoing Vessels.

Reinstated by the Admiralty in 1803 with full seniority as a rear-admiral, Northesk was given the 100 gun first rate as his flagship, and after a brief period in the Channel Fleet, was sent south with Sir Robert Calder to join the blockading squadrons off Spain.

Limited jurisdiction in divorce cases was granted in 1873 and full Admiralty jurisdiction was added in 1911.

Once news of the scale of the British defeat, and its consequent humiliation, reached the British Admiralty in London, a new naval force was assembled under Vice-Admiral Sturdee.

The British Admiralty subsequently contracted with Basset-Lowke and other companies and individual craftsmen to produce large numbers of recognition models, to this scale, in 1914-18.

There are large industrial estates at Bridgend and Waterton ( formerly Waterton Admiralty ) which host a number of small scale and multi-national companies, mainly manufacturing.

1: 250, 000 scale topographic map of the Ebbe Glacier and parts of the Admiralty Mountains.

This included the production of the KAA Interoperability Admiralty Chart by Major Hammond and which was subsequently distributed to both countries, having been produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

In 1871, the British Admiralty paid Whitehead £ 15, 000 for certain of his developments and production started at the Royal Laboratories in Woolwich the following year.

Marxian economics suggests that control of such means of production is always and necessarily part of the rise to hegemony of a state on any scale-and notes that the British Admiralty did, and U. S. Department of Defense, U. S. State Department, does, especially via allies and allied agencies, provide vast and guaranteed markets for military and humanitarian production.

In 1795, Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham was appointed by the Admiralty, the only Inspector General of Naval Works with the task of continuing this modernisation, and in particular the introduction of steam power and mechanising the production processes in the dockyard.

In early 1915, the British Admiralty selected the US Elco company for the production of 50 Motor Launches for anti-submarine work, British industry being at maximum capacity.

There was, however, a separate ministry responsible for aircraft production and the Admiralty retained responsibilities for supplying the Royal Navy.

According to historian Paul Kennedy, " The enormous sustained demand which Admiralty contracts in particular created for iron, wood, cloth, and other wares produced a " feedback loop ", which assisted British production and stimulated a series of technological breakthroughs that gave the country yet another advantage over the French.

This included the production of the KAA Interoperability Admiralty Chart by Major Hammond and which was subsequently distributed to both countries, having been produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

* December 28 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty ( d. 1698 )

Dr. John Rae rebutted Dickens in two articles in Household Words: “ The Lost Arctic Voyagers ”, Household Words, No. 248 ( December 23, 1854 ), and " Dr. Rae ’ s Report to the Secretary of the Admiralty ", Household Words, No. 249 ( December 30, 1854 ).

In December 1914 the Admiralty began discussions with the War Office for a combined operation to occupy the Belgian coast to the Dutch fronter, by an attack along the coast combined with a landing at Ostend.

A meeting in London of the Admiralty and General Staff urged that the Flanders operation be undertaken in 1917 and Joffre replied on 8 December agreeing to the proposal for a Flanders campaign after the spring offensive.

It was announced in November 1978 that Prince Andrew would join the Royal Navy the following year, and in December he underwent various sporting tests and examinations at the Aircrew Selection Centre, at RAF Biggin Hill, along with further tests and interviews at HMS Daedalus, and interviews at the Admiralty Interview Board, HMS Sultan.

As Randolph Churchill put it, from December 1905, " Marsh was to accompany Churchill to every Government department he occupied: to the Board of Trade, the Home Office, the Admiralty, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Ministry of Munitions, the War Office, back to his original Colonial Office and the Treasury.

In December 1744 he became a Lord of the Admiralty in the administration of Henry Pelham.

He was made First Lord of the Admiralty in December 1766.

With the election of Gladstone's government in December 1868 he rose to greater prominence, serving as First Lord of the Admiralty.

Anson subsequently continued his naval career with distinction as an administrator, joining the Admiralty Board in December 1744, then becoming First Lord of the Admiralty from June 1751 to November 1756, and again from June 1757 until his death.

The Admiralty accepted and on 6 December the Commander-in-Chief, The Nore promulgated the scheme to the officers under his jurisdiction and requested that applicants be unmarried and able to pay the membership fees of the Royal Aero Club.

However, Admiral Harvey had sent the Lords of the Admiralty a letter strongly commending ' the zeal and alacrity of this intelligent and excellent officer ', which may have influenced their decision to promote him to Post Captain on 7 December 1818.

* December 22-Colonial Office Circular notifying revised Admiralty requirements for flags for colonial warships and for other colonial government vessels and requesting correct drawings of seals or badges to be adopted as distinguishing marks.

The Admiralty, on December 1, wrote to Russell that Milne “ should give his particular attention to the measures that may be necessary for the protection of the valuable trade between America, the West Indies, and England .” However Somerset issued provisional orders to British naval units around the world to be prepared to attack American shipping wherever it might be found.

When the first Gladstone ministry was formed in December 1868, Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty, but resigned in July 1870 on a point of conscience connected with the government Education Bill.

When Gladstone became prime minister in December 1868, Goschen joined the cabinet as President of the Poor Law Board, until March 1871, when he succeeded Childers as First Lord of the Admiralty.

He served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty between March and December 1905.

After ten years in opposition, the Liberals again came to power in December 1905 under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who appointed Tweedmouth First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet.

In 1852 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet, by the Earl of Derby, a post he held until the fall of the government in December 1852.

He was made Privy Counsellor in December 1834 while holding office as first Lord of the Admiralty till April 1835, and a Knight of the Garter in 1844.

In December 1796, in an unusual arrangement, the Admiralty ( Navy operations ) directed the Navy Board ( administration and supplies ) to contract Jacobs shipyard to build a frigate and later a 74-gun sloop.

After the end of the War Hill-Norton became gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS Nigeria in the South Atlantic and then, having been promoted to commander on 31 December 1947, he was posted to the naval ordnance division at the Admiralty.