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The professional head of the Royal Navy is known as the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS).. There are presently two senior subordinates to the 1SL: the Second Sea Lord, who is also the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff; and the Fleet Commander.
The Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station, remained in Bermuda. The Royal Navy withdrew from Halifax in 1905, and the Halifax Naval Yard was handed over to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1910. [20] [21] The Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard on the Pacific coast of Canada was also transferred to the dominion government in 1905. [22]
Pages in category "Commanders-in-chief of the Royal Navy" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The term is also used for the military commander-in-chief of a command (a region of military authority, sometimes combined with the civil office of Governor of a colony (now called a British Overseas Territory)), and for the naval commander-in-chief of a station of the Royal Navy, such as the North America and West Indies Station.
He joined the Staff at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1922 and then commanded Destroyers from 1925. [2] He was appointed Flag Captain commanding HMNZS Achilles and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief of the New Zealand Division in 1936 [2] before becoming Commander-in-Chief of the New Zealand Division in 1938. [3]
He returned to the Royal Navy, serving as Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station from 1848 to 1851. During the Crimean War, the government considered him for a command in the Baltic, but decided that there was too high a chance that Lord Dundonald would risk the fleet in a daring attack.
Appointed commander of the America and West Indies Station in 1946, [2] he was promoted to admiral on 22 October 1948, [19] and remained there until he retired in August 1949. [2] In 1950, he was named Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, in which capacity he served until his death at the Worcester Royal Infirmary in 1963.
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