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Sentence Examples In 1970 the Admiralty abolished the rum ration within the Royal Navy, apparently on health grounds. Communications between detached fleets and the Admiralty often took weeks, if not months. During the war, he joined the British Admiralty Research Laboratories where he designed acoustic and magnetic mines. At the outbreak of the Second World War the port, with its large graving and floating docks, became a naval base and later an Admiralty dockyard. Instead, hostilities found him posted first to the naval intelligence division of the Admiralty and then to the Royal Air Force. Owing to the danger of capture by the enemy both the Admiralty and Navy Board insisted that all storeships sailed in convoy. Deployed to New Guinea in 1944 she bombarded Japanese positions in the Admiralty Islands and took part in the landings at Sek Island. He established his HQ at Northways, close enough, but not too close, to the Admiralty. By the start of the war, the Royal Navy did have submarines but the Admiralty dictated how they should be used. Crick was working on magnetic mines for the Admiralty while Jim was a very young student at the University of Chicago. Though the submarine was usually a lone fighter, the Admiralty still believed that it could be used with the Grand Fleet. During 13 months of research, he delved into records at the Ministry of Defence and the Admiralty. Before the war, the Admiralty had developed a sloop design for convoy escort work. At Jutland Bank the British Admiralty wished to intercept the German fleet as it left its home port. It was designed by the naval architect George Taylor and built by the Admiralty in 1831 as a place of worship for men employed in the Dockyard. The Admiralty bought what it could, used war prizes and added war-damaged ships, anything that would float long enough to be towed into position. To conduct a maritime war in distant seas the Admiralty had to be able to transport naval stores to squadrons operating from remote stations. The Sea Lords at the Admiralty tend to take a dim view of captains who drive into objects they ought to steer round. Jones gave a long story to the High Court of the Admiralty in 1723 that explained how he eventually came to be a marooner. After the war powerful voices were raised on North's behalf but the Admiralty refused him a court martial or a public enquiry. Show More Sentences The Admiralty sent four ships, accompanied by one sailing ship to serve as a base, supply depot, and refuge in case of trouble. This information rang alarm bells in the Admiralty, and as a result the Allied fleet was put on alert for a major engagement. He had graduated from University College London in 1937 and then carried out wartime research for the Admiralty on acoustic and magnetic mines. He was a tired man in December 1916 when he was transferred to the Admiralty as 1st sea lord. Toward the end of 1916 Jellicoe became first sea lord of the Admiralty. By order of the Admiralty both ships exchanged entire ship's companies, officer complement and Fleet Command, and returned to their respective stations. The British Admiralty, 16th century, deemed it anthropophagism and forbade it, though castaways, after Go days, were exempted upon the depletion of sea biscuits. He lives in an 18th century grace and favour apartment in Admiralty Arch in Whitehall and has the use of a 214-acre official country residence at Dorneywood, Buckinghamshire. There was also a degaussing station attached to the establishment, and after the war until 1962 it was used as a Sea Cadet training centre and an Admiralty store. Finally there were courts administering family and probate matters, which had inherited their jurisdiction from the ecclesiastical courts, and the Court of Admiralty. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary was born exactly a century ago as the Admiralty sought to make the distinction between warships and the auxiliaries which supported the Royal Navy. Recent finds include copper pins marked with the broad arrow of the Admiralty, copper sheathing, pan weights, musket balls, cannonballs and a sounding lead. Most of the passage had already been charted and the British Admiralty expected that Franklin, a veteran Arctic explorer, would handily chart the rest. After more abortive attempts, the Admiralty decided, in 1845, to send Sir John Franklin with two steamers, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to resolve the problem. He returned to England in January 1701 but on arrival in the Downs found that his crew had dispatched a round robin to the Admiralty alleging his ill usage of them. His dad, Tom, now in his eighties, started off in the Navy as an able-bodied seaman, but worked his way up to become a first officer in the Admiralty. The skipper was apparently doing his nut, but while King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions could be applied to his crew, they didn't have much effect on his passengers. In calm seas and glorious weather, the ship made landfall off the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken, and secured to the Admiralty buoy in Cumberland Bay. Jellicoe was disturbed by the Admiralty failure to discuss the raid with their commander in chief of the fleet at sea. The Admiralty also uncovered the German order of battle and tracked the deployment of ships, which gave them an offensive advantage. Show More Sentences At the Admiralty, Wilson, Oliver and Churchill arranged a plan to confront the Germans with a superior opponent. The Defence Council delegates management of the Naval Service to the Admiralty Board, chaired by the Secretary of State for Defence. German naval radio communications could therefore often be quickly deciphered, and the British Admiralty usually knew about German activities. The service ceased on the outbreak of war in 1939 when the vessels involved were requisitioned by the Admiralty. However, he was now misled by an Admiralty intelligence report advising that the German main battle fleet was still in port. On 3 June, the Admiralty issued a further statement expanding on German losses, and another the following day with exaggerated claims. In 1915, the Admiralty produced a Staff Requirement requesting designs for a Coastal Motor Boat for service in the North Sea. Fisher began a long campaign to return this responsibility to the Admiralty, but did not finally succeed until he later became First Sea Lord. He lobbied hard with the Admiralty to obtain additional ships and supplies for the Mediterranean squadron. He was read in at the Admiralty on 9 June, and took up his duties the following day. The proposal was initially resisted by the remainder of the Board of Admiralty, but Fisher convinced them of the benefits of the changes. Fisher was brought into the Admiralty to reduce naval budgets, and to reform the navy for modern war. Once the First World War broke out in August 1914, Fisher was a 'constant' visitor to Churchill at the Admiralty. The couple, surrounded by cheering people and photographers, was then taken to the Lord Warden Hotel at the foot of the Admiralty Pier. Bacon was asked to give his opinion and rejected the plan, as did the Admiralty. These were known as the Admiralty Quarries, and provided 10,000 tons of stone per week for use on the breakwaters. The Admiralty Railway was created to transport the stone down to the harbour. In the wake of the Cold War, the Admiralty Gunnery Establishment was established at Barrow Hill. On 24 August, he began a second swim by diving in from the Admiralty Pier at Dover. John Barrow, longtime Second Secretary of the British Admiralty, promoted exploration of the region from 1818 to 1845 in search of this. Show More Sentences The Admiralty Courts and men like Cotton Mather would eventually wrest power from the rogue elements. Rather than civil courts, pirate trials were overseen by the Court of Admiralty. He joined the Dutch navy as a lieutenant in July 1622, entering service with the Admiralty of the Maze based in Rotterdam. Following the navy's poor performance at Dungeness, Blake demanded that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty enact major reforms. In 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially by that name. The Admiralty passed them on to the Board of Longitude for evaluation and consideration for the Longitude Prize. The Admiralty Islands are an archipelago group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean. Following Papuan independence in 1975, sovereignty of the Admiralty Islands was transferred from Australia to Papua New Guinea. A record exists in the Spanish Admiralty libraries which describes this discovery. Some time between 1762 and 1765, written accounts of the Torres expedition were seen by British Admiralty Hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple. Admiralty courts, also known as maritime courts, are courts exercising jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries, and offenses. In 1483 these local courts were amalgamated into a single High Court of Admiralty, administered by the Lord High Admiral of England. Today Admiralty jurisdiction is exercised by the United Kingdom's High Court of Justice. This office is normally held by a High Court Judge who holds the appointment of Admiralty Judge. The jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports extends from Shore Beacon, Essex, to Redcliffe, near Seaford, Sussex. The use of wireless allowed centralised control of ships from the Admiralty, which cramped the initiative of the men on the spot. Goods and tackle of such ships not to be embezeled, till judgement in the Admiralty. As First Lord of the Admiralty before the First World War, Winston Churchill twice suggested naming a British battleship HMS Oliver Cromwell. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Earl Spencer, fainted on hearing the news. The coffin was taken into the Admiralty for the night, attended by Nelson's chaplain, Alexander Scott. Show More Sentences During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. In October 1911, Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and continued in the post into the First World War. In 1913, he was appointed an Elder Brother of Trinity House as result of his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty. Alexander resumed the role he had held in the previous Labour Government as First Lord of the Admiralty. Other specialised courts of the Queen's Bench Division include the Technology and Construction Court, Commercial Court, and the Admiralty Court. After sea trials the Admiralty rejected their claims, and the metal was used for fanlights and sash windows at Soho House. The DfE is due to vacate Sanctuary Buildings in September 2017, relocating staff to the Old Admiralty Building. A Vice Admiralty Court was quickly convened, presided over by Tobias Knight and the Collector of Customs. To the south west is The Mall leading towards Buckingham Palace via Admiralty Arch, while Whitehall is to the south and the Strand to the east. Maria's father, Charles Bicknell, solicitor to King George IV and the Admiralty, was reluctant to see Maria throw away her inheritance. Some British naval officials, particularly the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, sought a more 'offensive' strategy. In April, the Admiralty took over operational control of Coastal Command aircraft. The name was chosen in honour of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1830 the Jury Court was absorbed into the Court of Session along with the Admiralty and Commissary Courts. The Defence Council delegates administration of the Naval Service to the Admiralty Board, chaired by the Secretary of State for Defence. Banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife, to a mother who was a professional ice skater and a father who was an officer in the Admiralty. Thomson's energetic lobbying and networking proved effective in gaining acceptance of his instrument by The Admiralty. Defunct and historical courts include the Admiralty Court, Court of Exchequer, district courts, and the High Court of Constabulary. In May 1917 Eric Geddes, based at the Admiralty, was put in charge of shipbuilding, and in July he became First Lord of the Admiralty. Show More Sentences Duff had already recommended to Jellicoe that the Admiralty adopt convoys after a recent successful convoy from Gibraltar. In the spring of 1946 The Company approached the Admiralty with a request to purchase three of these vessels. Spanish expeditions also discovered Tuvalu, the Marquesas, the Cook Islands, the Solomon Islands, and the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific. It is common for the various authorities now in charge of the Royal Navy to be referred to as simply The Admiralty. In 1831, the first Navy Board was abolished as a separate entity, and its duties and responsibilities were given over to the Admiralty. The Board of Admiralty consisted of a number of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was a member of the Cabinet. In 1776 Captain James Cook was dispatched by the Admiralty in Great Britain on an expedition to explore the Passage. Shortly after Fisher's resignation, Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty. Tugs Patapsco and Patuxent towed Admiralty wooden sailing smacks Red Rose and Red Fern out to conduct the first trial sweep in December. Twenty Admiralty trawlers with American crews, 16 more Lapwing class minesweepers, and another repair ship Panther were assigned to his command. Keyes impressed First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill by the daring of his plan, which was adopted but not without changes. Although the plan had been agreed by the Admiralty, Admiral John Jellicoe commanding the Grand Fleet was not informed until 26 August. The Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports had a silver oar of early date, but it was stolen in the 1960s and replaced with a replica. Admiralty law or maritime law is a distinct body of law that governs maritime questions and offences. Admiralty law also covers many commercial activities, although land based or occurring wholly on land, that are maritime in character. Admiralty courts were a prominent feature in the prelude to the American Revolution. The current statute dealing with the Admiralty jurisdiction of the England and Wales High Court is the Supreme Court Act 1981, ss. Lord Tweedmouth, the First Lord of the Admiralty, was relegated to the nominal post of Lord President of the Council. The plan was to house all government departments apart from the Admiralty in the building. Show More Sentences They are also the site of the first stationary steam engines used by the Admiralty. In 1802 Marc Isambard Brunel proposed to the Admiralty a system of making blocks using machinery he had patented. Bentham appreciated the superiority of Brunel's system and in August 1802 he was authorised by the Admiralty to proceed. The machines submitted by Brunel to the Admiralty for evaluation are now in the National Maritime Museum. Collingwood joined the Admiralty intelligence division at the outbreak of the First World War. The showing made by this swift water bug so impressed the Admiralty that they took steps to turbanize the British navy. Admiralty Island contains unique resources of scientific interest which need protection to assure continued opportunities for study. He is currently a member of the United States Maritime Law Association, Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute and the Houston Mariners Club. The inevitable consequence was that they were misemployed by a staunchly traditional Admiralty, unwilling to accept the need for change. And a pigeon guillemot flying breakfast sorties into the cold waters of Admiralty Inlet. He decided to sail to England and put his invention before the Admiralty. The British Admiralty also instituted a new policy that the three American heavy frigates should not be engaged except by a ship of the line or frigates in squadron strength. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith's Liberal government. Orders arrived from the Admiralty to blockade the French forces in Alexandria and Malta, a task Nelson delegated to his captains, Samuel Hood and Alexander Ball. Nelson wrote dispatches to the Admiralty and oversaw temporary repairs to the Vanguard, before sailing to Naples where he was met with enthusiastic celebrations. Now in reserve on half pay, he attempted to persuade the Admiralty and other senior figures he was acquainted with, such as Hood, to provide him with a command. Consequently, in April 1955 a request was sent to the Admiralty to seize the island and declare UK sovereignty lest it become an outpost for foreign observers. Members of the Sick and Hurt Board, recently augmented by two practical naval surgeons, supported the request, and the Admiralty ordered that it be done. Instead, the Admiralty required that it travel to Lisbon and back. The customs officer immediately contacted the Admiralty in London. Show More Sentences Baldwin, AOC Bomber Command, stood down half of its bombers and reduced the other 100 aircraft from four to two hours' notice, without informing the Admiralty. Two days later, Enigma showed that Ciliax had joined Scharnhorst and with the recent exercises, led the Admiralty to predict an impending departure. Wolfhound put into Calais and the captain reported to the Admiralty that the Germans were in the southern part of town and that the situation was desperate. The British Admiralty redoubled its efforts to find effective remedy. Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff, chief of the Admiralty staff, argued successfully in early 1917 to resume the attacks and thus starve the British. He resigned on 15 May 1915 amidst bitter arguments with the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, over Gallipoli, causing Churchill's resignation too. In the 12th century, China's first permanent standing navy was established by the Southern Song dynasty, the headquarters of the Admiralty stationed at Dinghai. On 5 June 1916, the First Lord of the Admiralty advised Cabinet Members that the three battlecruisers had been lost due to unsafe cordite management. In response to public outrage, the First Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Balfour asked Winston Churchill to write a second report that was more positive and detailed. However, Cook had researched Bering's expeditions, and the Admiralty ultimately placed their faith in the veteran explorer to lead, with Clerke accompanying him. Admiralty Arch is linked to the Old Admiralty Building by a bridge and is part of the ceremonial route from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace. Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty. It contained the Admiralty board room, which is still used by the Admiralty, other state rooms, offices and apartments for the Lords of the Admiralty. There was also appointed a new Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff and an Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff who were all given seats on the Board of Admiralty. It was believed by officials within the Admiralty at this time that the running of war was quite a simple matter for any flag officer who required no formal training. In 1628, Charles I put the office of Lord High Admiral into commission and control of the Royal Navy passed to a committee in the form of the Board of Admiralty. Three of the houses on the then foreshore, part of the shipyard before the Admiralty Dock Yard was built, are still standing but are heavily altered. The Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division was renamed to the Family Division by the Administration of Justice Act 1970, and its jurisdiction reorganised accordingly. Edward Carson was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, as had been widely touted during the intrigues of the previous month, but excluded from the War Cabinet. Since Elizabethan times, the symbol of authority for a British Admiralty Court has been a silver oar, placed before the Judge when the Court is in session. Show More Sentences The Admiralty initially declared that there would be no attempt at salvage, that the sunken hulks would remain where they were, to 'rest and rust. These were civil courts with the power to interpret colonial legislation, provided these did not conflict with Admiralty Court decisions or British maritime law. There the Admiralty ordered him to fit Albemarle for sea and join the escort for a convoy collecting at Cork in Ireland to sail for Quebec in Canada. It also volunteered all of its shipping to the British Admiralty. Admiralty law was introduced into England by the French Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine while she was acting as regent for her son, King Richard the Lionheart. Staines sent a party ashore and wrote a detailed report for the Admiralty. Admiralty House is another nice attraction where locals and visitors enjoy cliff diving into the beautiful blue water and where you are able to see Dockyard in the distance. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, was credited by Prime Minister David Lloyd George as being the driving force behind their production. Overall, it was a government of considerable talent with Lloyd George remaining as chancellor, Grey as Foreign Secretary, and Churchill at the Admiralty. Undeterred, the Junto demanded the appointment of the Earl of Orford, another member of the Junto and one of Prince George's leading critics, as First Lord of the Admiralty. Most of the warships had been provided by the Admiralty of Amsterdam. Maudslay also recruited a promising young Admiralty draughtsman, Joshua Field, who proved to be so talented that Maudslay took him into partnership. From these clues, Commander Rodger Winn's Admiralty Submarine Tracking Room supplied their best estimates of submarine movements, but this information was not enough. The design was approved by King George V in 1921, after much opposition from the Admiralty, who have the right to approve or veto any flag flown ashore or on board ship. On 12 September the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, gave a speech in which he proposed 10 or 12 regional parliaments for the United Kingdom. Their third child, Sarah, was born on 7 October 1914 at Admiralty House. Examples from Classical Literature The originals of these surveys form part of the most precious possessions of the hydrographic Office of the Admiralty. In the grounds of the Admiralty House curious instances of unconformable strata are laid bare in old quarries. Mr. Mosely describes the same method of ornamenting the body as he observed it amongst the men of the Admiralty Islands. The Anglophobe grand dukes, the fire-eaters of the Admiralty, are all his sworn allies. She was a slaver recently captured off Bahia, and ordered to be sold by the Admiralty. I was startled, for I had some shadowy idea that Joe had divorced her in a favour of the Lords of the Admiralty, or Treasury. Felton arrived at the palace of the Admiralty, covered with dust, and streaming with perspiration. He named them Admiralty Islands, and after two attacks, found himself forced to employ fire-arms to repulse the natives. Here the Admiralty clerks wife had a mind to a petticoat of sarcenet bordered with black lace, and probably purchased it. He was hydrographer to the Admiralty, and accompanied Ross on his first voyage of discovery. Only one other subspecies, from the Admiralty Islands, is known. Father Arthur Winslow decides his family will not take this lying down and opts to take the Admiralty to court to clear his son's name. The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate. Pepys, who ultimately became Secretary to the Admiralty, and was a hard-working and very able naval official, was also astonishingly naif and vain. The Admiralty are much more go-ahead in this way than we are. I had come to London primarily to correlate Admiralty records concerning impressment of American seamen with events that my research had turned up in American sources. The cattle boats were taken over by the Admiralty as they had low freeboards and straight-sided hulls so survivors could more easily climb up rescue nets. Find more words! 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