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Parent Department. Admiralty. The Naval Intelligence Department (NID) [1] was the intelligence arm of the British Admiralty from 1887 until 1912 when most of its subsidiary divisions were absorbed during the creation of the Admiralty War Staff department that included a new Naval Intelligence Division that concentrated in that sphere solely.
An interior shot of the Joint Services Command and Staff College. Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) is a British military academic establishment providing training and education to experienced officers of the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence Civil Service, and serving officers of other states.
Contents. List of active Royal Navy ships. The Royal Navy is the principal naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Its assets include both commissioned warships and non-commissioned vessels. As of May 2024, there are 66 commissioned ships in the Royal Navy. Of the commissioned vessels, nineteen are major surface combatants ...
e. The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
The Sea-class workboat has been procured for Britain's Royal Navy to undertake a number of roles, including: logistics and transport tasks, inshore and harbour survey work, diver training and support, officer training and providing passenger transfer modules for the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales. An autonomous minehunting variant of the ...
HMS Cardiff is the second Batch 1 Type 26 frigate to be built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. [14] The first steel was cut on 14 August 2019. [15] The Type 26 class will partially replace the navy's thirteen Type 23 frigates, [16] and will be a multi-mission warship designed for anti-submarine warfare, air defence and general purpose operations. [4]
The Naval Stores Department [1] also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Stores was initially a subsidiary department of the British Department of Admiralty, then later the Navy Department responsible for managing and maintaining naval stores and the issuing of materials at naval dockyards and establishments for the building, fitting and repairing of Royal Navy warships from 1869 ...
Andrew Kyte. Vice-Admiral Andrew Jeffery Kyte, CB (born 1966) is a senior Royal Navy officer. Since September 2023, he has served as Chief of Defence Logistics and Support at Strategic Command. He joined the Royal Navy in 1987 as a logistics officer. He served as Chief Naval Logistics Officer and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Logistic ...