Welcome to Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904-1945

Welcome aboard admirals.org.uk, a free, comprehensive online resource for archival Admiralty documents and information on Royal Navy Flag Officers during the years 1904-1945, AKA the "Dreadnought Era". Here you will find a wide range of coverage to include individual histories as well as various naval records/documents pertaining to the Royal Navy of this time period. This site is intended to be a tool for readers of all ages by providing fact based and useful information.

How You Can Help

There is a great deal of information that we would like to post to this site. Unfortunately, there are but two of us currently running the site. Accordingly, we therefore welcome any serious volunteer assistance - particularly in the form of transcriptions, photos and book reviews.

To learn more about where we could use such help please click here for more information.

 

Latest Update: 14 April, 2009

I am now concentrating on putting putting together a more complete list of holders of various Flag Appointments. This work should take a couple of months. Hopefully, by June the site should contain a fairly comprehensive list for all appointments. I am also trying to convert to html a backlog of transcribed documents. Ones that I am adding are shown in the updates below.

We've recently added or updated the following items:

We'll be adding more to the docs above as time permits. In the meantime, if there are any officers you particularly want to see details for, please feel free to e-mail us and we'll move them to the front of the queue. I am particularly keen to obtain photos of officers. If yopu have any or have any documents that you feel may be pertinent to the theme of this website, please also contact us. .