Flag Officer Submarines was a post in the Royal Navy which involved command of the Royal Navy Submarine Service and which evolved from the post of Rear-Admiral, Submarines.
History[]
The post, which was established in 1919, was for many years located at HMS Dolphin in Hampshire.[1] Flag Officer Submarines moved from Dolphin to the Northwood Headquarters in 1978.[2] The post evolved from Chief of the Submarine Service to Rear-Admiral Submarines and then to Flag Officer Submarines. Since 1993 the post of Flag Officer Submarines has been dual-hatted with the post of Commander Operations.[3]
Commanders[]
Commanders included:[3]
Chief of the Submarine Service
- Rear-Admiral Douglas Dent (1919–1921)
- Rear-Admiral Hugh Sinclair (1921–1923)
- Vice-Admiral Wilmot Nicholson (1923–1925)
- Rear-Admiral Vernon Haggard (1925–1927)
- Rear-Admiral Henry Grace (1927–1929)
Rear-Admiral Submarines
- Rear-Admiral Martin Dunbar-Nasmith (1929–1931)
- Rear-Admiral Charles Little (1931–1932)
- Rear-Admiral Noel Laurence (1932–1934)
- Rear-Admiral Cecil Talbot (1934–1936)
- Rear-Admiral Robert Raikes (1936–1938)
- Rear-Admiral Bertram Watson (1938–1940)
- Vice-Admiral Sir Max Horton (1940–1942)
- Rear-Admiral Claud Barry (1942–1944)
Flag Officer Submarines
- Rear-Admiral George Creasy (1944–1946)
- Vice-Admiral Sir John Mansfield (1946–1948)
- Rear-Admiral Guy Grantham (1948–1950)
- Rear-Admiral Sydney Raw (1950–1952)
- Rear-Admiral George Simpson (1952–1954)
- Rear-Admiral George Fawkes (1954–1955)
- Rear-Admiral Wilfrid Woods (1955–1957)
- Rear-Admiral Bertram Taylor (1957–1959)
- Rear-Admiral Arthur Hezlet (1959–1961)
- Rear-Admiral Hugh Mackenzie (1961–1963)
- Rear-Admiral Horace Law (1963–1965)
- Rear-Admiral Ian McGeoch (1965–1967)
- Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Pollock (1967–1969)
- Vice-Admiral Sir John Roxburgh (1969–1972)
- Vice-Admiral Anthony Troup (1972–1974)
- Vice-Admiral Sir Iwan Raikes (1974–1976)
- Vice-Admiral John Fieldhouse (1976–1978)
- Vice-Admiral Robert Squires (1978–1981)
- Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Herbert (1981–1983)
- Vice-Admiral Sir John Woodward (1983–1984)
- Rear-Admiral Richard Heaslip (1984–1987)
- Rear-Admiral Frank Grenier (1987–1989)
- Vice-Admiral Sir John Coward (1989–1991)
References[]
- ↑ "Submarine School". http://www.dieselweasel.co.uk/subschool.html. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ Conley, p. 136
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Senior Royal Navy Appointments". http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
Sources[]
- Conley, Dan (2014). Cold War Command: The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781848327696. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4uqwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=flag+officer+submarines+northwood+1978&source=bl&ots=e0LgG4k5-3&sig=akxwWzsXZSoSNJzTZWnTehBPtyA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAmoVChMIiK2L7Z_ixwIVyFUUCh1RVgHE#v=onepage&q=flag%20officer%20submarines%20northwood%201978&f=false.
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