Boythorn, "the treatment of surgeons aboard ship is such that I would submit the legs--both legs--of every member of the
Admiralty Board to a compound fracture and render it a transportable offence in any qualified practitioner to set them if the system were not wholly changed in eight and forty hours!"
"Written by my great grandmother, Annie, who after hearing the news of Arthur's death wrote to the
Admiralty Board proudly stating 'I have five sons fighting for King and Country' and wanting to find out more information.
There are a few errors that reflect the author's foreign provenance, for example, 'the' before HMS in ship titles and confusion between the post-Heseltine 'Navy Board' and the 1964 '
Admiralty Board', but none are especially serious.
His shore appointments were mainly in the Procurement Executive, culminating in service on the
Admiralty Board as Controller of the Navy.
Perhaps the one concrete mistake that they did make, however, was to provide a skeptical
Admiralty Board with an altogether familiar and superficially convincing alternative, that of enhancing the battle fleet itself with Dreadnought-type battleships.
Anyone looking for clues in the latest set of minutes from the Bank's equivalent of the
Admiralty Board, the monetary policy committee, would be left none the wiser.
On display is a plaque presented to the ship by the
Admiralty Board in recognition of her role.
In 2006 he went before the
Admiralty Board for a commission and passed out with the highest score of any UK officer.
Incredibly comprehensive, it ranges from esoteric matters such as the
Admiralty Board and command structures to the reality of life on the lower deck of an escort.
"At the end of this, I had to face a Navy
Admiralty Board, comprising of a captain, commander and a head teacher.
The
Admiralty Board appointed roving commissioners like Sir John Tippetts who moved around the dockyards, inspecting, auditing, and spreading best practice.