In the definition adopted by the British Admiralty, they were rated ships of at least 28 guns, carrying their principal armament upon a single continuous deck — the upper deck, while ships-of-the-line possessed two or more continuous decks bearing batteries of guns.

In a letter from the Navy Board to the Admiralty dated 31 August 1763 it was written " that so long as copper plates can be kept upon the bottom, the planks will be thereby entirely secured from the effects of the worm.

Cradock believed he was expected to advance against von Spee with those forces he had, whereas the Admiralty expected him to exercise caution, centering upon Canopus for defence, and merely to scout the enemy or take advantage of any situation where he might come across part of the enemy force.

The two had not been on good terms, and on receiving the Mediterranean posting, Mathews requested that Lestock be recalled, a request the Admiralty declined to act upon.

It was created in 1900 for the politician George Goschen upon his retirement from a long political career, during which he served variously as Member of Parliament, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, President of the Poor Law Board, Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Admiralty.

Lukin was clearly a man ahead of his time, for despite his achievement, his appeals for the adoption of his craft, made to the then First Lord of the Admiralty and the Deputy Master of Trinity House fell resoundingly upon ‘ deaf ears ’.

As the deputy of the Lord High Admiral, the responsibilities of the pre-1964 Board of Admiralty would, in theory, have devolved upon the Vice-Admiral had the entire Board been incapacitated before a new Commission of Admiralty could pass the Great Seal.

Since he held the office of Secretary of the Admiralty, the key administrator of the Royal Navy, longer than any other person and had extensive official correspondence and Admiralty papers that have been preserved, his books and writings are relied upon by maritime and naval war historians.

The post carried considerable influence, equivalent in practice to that of other Lords of the Admiralty, in advising upon naval appointments.

Although it exonerated him from direct responsibility, the Admiralty blamed him for " not sufficiently impressing upon your subordinates the novelty and importance of the task entrusted to them ".

If the Duke of Portland had formed an administration upon the Prince of Wales becoming Regent, Fitzwilliam would have been First Lord of the Admiralty, although Fitzwilliam was relieved when the King recovered from his illness and prospects of assuming this office subsequently disappeared.

The two had not been on good terms, and on receiving the Mediterranean posting, Mathews requested that Lestock be recalled, a request the Admiralty declined to act upon.

On receiving his orders, Cradock asked the Admiralty for permission to split his fleet into two forces, each able to face von Spee independently.

In Herbert's report to the Admiralty, he stated he feared the survivors from the U-boat's crew would board the freighter and scuttle her, so he ordered the Royal Marines on his ship to shoot the survivors.

As a result, reports of the battle did not reach Britain until Capel arrived in Mutine on 2 October, entering the Admiralty at 11: 15 and personally delivering the news to Lord Spencer, who collapsed unconscious when he heard the report.

After the war a report of the battle was prepared by the Admiralty under First Sea Lord Wemyss.

In his September 1792 dispatch log report for the British Admiralty, Captain Vancouver reveals that his decision here was rather meant to honour a request by the Spanish Peruvian seafarer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra that Vancouver:

In 1696 he took out a patent for a machine for polishing glass or marble and another for " rowing of ships with greater ease and expedicion than hitherto beene done by any other " which involved paddle-wheels driven by a capstan and which was dismissed by the Admiralty following a negative report by the Surveyor of the Navy, Edmund Dummer.

The Balfour report of 1921, the Geddes Axe of 1922 and the Salisbury Committee of 1923 all found in favour of the RAF despite lobbying from the Admiralty and opposition in Parliament.

The harbour was filled with vessels of the Neapolitan, Brazilian and British navies as well as an American warship and Stirling sent a detailed report on the foreign warships to the Admiralty.

In November 1757, the Admiralty sent a surveying delegation to the haven, which prepared a report for Parliament recommending the construction of a " Milford " dock yard.

However, when Entrecasteaux reached Table Bay, Cape Town on 17 January 1792, he heard a report that Captain John Hunter ( later to be Governor of New South Wales ) had recently seen – off the Admiralty Islands – canoes manned by natives wearing French uniforms and belts.

Although Hunter denied this report, and although the Frenchmen heard of the denial, Entrecasteaux determined to make directly to the Admiralty Islands, taking water and refreshing his crew at Van Diemen's Land.

When the Admiralty received the two reports it was the pioneer of wireless telegraphy Captain ( later, Admiral Sir ) Henry Jackson, then commanding HMS Vulcan, whose opinion led a senior naval officer to report, " it would be unworthy to try to evade the Marconi Company's patent.

A report of May 1886 stated that the Admiralty Pier had no defences of its own.

The British Admiralty had meanwhile instructed Rear Admiral J. Wilson, the Commodore of the Royal Navy's Australian Squadron, to investigate the weapon and report back.

When informed of Miers ' actions, Flag Officer Submarines Admiral Horton wrote to the Admiralty about the possibility of German reprisals: " As far as I am aware, the enemy has not made a habit of firing on personnel in the water or on rafts even when such personnel were members of the fighting services ; since the incidents referred to in Torbay's report, he may feel justified in doing so.

* 6: British Admiralty receives a report from Copenhagen stating ten German destroyers are headed towards Narvik, but considers the possibility of such an event doubtful.

On sending Nelson's report to the Admiralty, Jervis added ' Lieutenant Edward Berry, of whom the Commodore writes so highly, is a protégé of mine and I know him to be an officer of talents, great courage and laudable ambition '.

Admiralty Fleet Order 6681 / 44 of 21 December 1944 implemented the proposals of the Shepherd report.

In practice, the Defence Council is a formal body, and almost all its work is conducted by or on behalf of the three service boards chaired by the Secretary of State which report to the Defence Council, namely the Admiralty Board, the Army Board and the Air Force Board.

An 1865 Admiralty report stated on the subject of Green Mountain that "( the island ) now possesses thickets of 40 kinds of trees, besides numerous shrubs ; through the spreading of vegetation, the water supply is now excellent ".

The report of the Admiralty Board of Enquiry into the sinking of Hood in September 1941 concluded " That the fire that was seen on Hood's Boat Deck, and in which UP and / or 4-inch ammunition was certainly involved, was not the cause of her loss ", but noted that " Action has ( already ) been taken to land UP mountings and ammunition " in the rest of the fleet.

Once there, he meets the secretary of the Admiralty and post rank is conferred immediately when Hornblower agrees to take part in a clandestine operation that eventually leads to the resounding British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar that costs Nelson his life.

The Queen Victoria Memorial is immediately before the gates of the Palace, whilst Admiralty Arch at the far end leads into Trafalgar Square.

The area immediately outside the dockyard was occupied by dockyard workers, who built wooden houses and decorated them with Admiralty blue paint illegally acquired from the dockyard.

At this point the Commissioner immediately sought assistance from the Admiralty sending a pessimistic message to the Navy Board, lamenting the absence of Navy senior officials whose help and advice he believed he needed.

More immediately a problem for Churchill, he was a forceful personality accustomed to directing the Admiralty himself, and being supported in his decisions by the political First Lord rather than taking orders from him.

This was immediately followed by the Senior Officers ' Technical Course at Portsmouth and from February 1928 to April 1930, Tovey was Assistant Director of Tactical School, followed by yet another shore appointment at the Admiralty as Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord.

The airport reverted to solely civilian flying almost immediately after the war, but the airfield remained in Admiralty possession until sold to the Isle of Man Government for £ 200, 000 in 1948, far short of the £ 1 million that the UK Government had spent on constructing the airport buildings and runways, plus the £ 105, 000 that was paid by the Admiralty in 1943 to purchase the site.

The CJCS ordered for 1942 – 43 Pacific objectives: that Guadalcanal would be carried out in conjunction with an Allied offensive in New Guinea under Douglas MacArthur, to capture the Admiralty Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago, including the major Japanese base at Rabaul.

Michael managed to reach the Winter Palace, where he ordered the guards there to withdraw to the Admiralty, because it afforded greater safety and a better tactical position and because it was a less politically charged location.

As a direct consequence of the flap over the Alabama, rather than turn the ships over to Monsieur Bravay of Paris ( who had ordered their construction as intermediary for Confederate principals ), Palmerston instructed the British Admiralty to tender an offer for the purchase of the ships.

The convoy's progress was being observed by the British Admiralty, which ordered the ships to scatter because of information that German navy surface units were being refuelled to intercept the convoy.

He refused to take sick leave, but eventually was ordered home by Lord Northbrook, who commented, ' the Admiralty could build another Inflexible, but not another Fisher '.

It was Rochford who ordered the Admiralty to prepare a fleet for war, and sent a simple demand for disavowal and restitution to Madrid.

In 1854 the British Admiralty ordered 4, 000 Navy Model Colt revolvers.

The Secretary of the Admiralty, Samuel Pepys, subsequently ordered the construction of a naval dockyard at Sheerness as an extension to that at Chatham, where naval ships would be maintained and repaired.

To prevent further attacks, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill ordered the construction of permanent barriers.

However the Admiralty approved of Benbow's conduct and ordered him " to be paid as Rear-Admiral during the time he has been employed this summer on the coast of France ... as a reward for his good service.

In September, Villeneuve was ordered to sail for Naples and attack British shipping in the Mediterranean, but he was initially unwilling to move and continued in blatant disregard of Superior Admiralty Orders.

The following morning, Tomkinson ordered the commanders of all ships present to read sections of the Admiralty letter out to their officers and crew.

In response, the Admiralty ordered Renown and her single destroyer escort ( the other two had gone to friendly ports for fuel ) to abandon her post at the Vestfjord and head to Glowworm < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s last known location.

In 1872, he was promoted to flag rank as a Rear Admiral, and was ordered to Berlin as Director of the Admiralty, where he remained until July 1879.

Because the Admiralty, following the Mutiny on the Bounty incident, had ordered, as a precaution against mutiny, that ships no longer make such long voyages alone, the armed tender HMS Chatham was assigned to the expedition, and HMS Daedalus was to bring supplies a year later.

On its becoming known that Napoleon intended to break the blockade of Ferrol, as a prelude to his invasion, the Admiralty ordered Rear-Admiral Charles Stirling to join Calder and intercept the Franco-Spanish fleet on their passage to Brest.

Fearing the German ships might be trying to escape to the Atlantic, the Admiralty ordered that Indomitable and Indefatigable be sent West toward Gibraltar.

When ordered by Johan de Witt in May 1665 to prevent a second English blockade of the Dutch coast-after the first had to be broken off for lack of supplies, the English Admiralty even so early in the war having a cash flow problem-Van Wassenaer commanded the largest fleet ever in Dutch history.

The following Austro-Russian talks were sabotaged by Austria ’ s refusal to abandon any of the demands on Serbia As a preparatory move in case a war did break out, and Britain were to become involved, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty, ordered the British fleet not to disperse as planned, arguing that news of the British move might serve as a deterrent to war, and thus help persuade Germany to put pressure on Austria to abandon some of the more outrageous demands in their ultimatum.

With the fall of France in 1940, the British Admiralty ordered convoys to be re-routed through the north-western approaches which would take them around the north coast and through the North Channel to the Irish Sea.