The Board of Admiralty has been reorganized, and the Staff
has been largely remanned with officers who have been at sea during the war. The division of the Board's functions between Operations and Maintenance has been extended to the Staff. Sir Roselyn Wemyss, the First Sea Lord, is also Chief of the Naval Staff. Rear- Admiral Fremantle succeeds Vice-Admiral Oliver as Deputy-Chief, and Rear-Admiral Duff becomes Assistant-Chief. These three officers will deollote their whole attention to operations, especially in home waters, leaving to the new Deputy First Sea Lord, Rear- Admiral Hope, the mass of administrative detail connected with Staff work. Rear-Admiral Fremantle will have under him three youngCaptains as directors of operations in home waters, and Rear- Admiral Duff will have four Captains directing the work of trade protection and the anti-submarine campaign. The Second, Third, and Fourth Sea Lords remain in office, charged with the main- . tenance of the Fleet Sir Alexander Gibb, the well-known con- tractor, has been lent by the War Office to serve as Civil Engineer- in-Chief to the Navy, and Mr. Merz, the electrical engineer, will act as Director of Experiments and Research.
