the Admiralty

noun

: a government department formerly in charge of the British Navy

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The truth may be that Sandwich, who was First Lord of the Admiralty when the Royal Navy was the world’s biggest industrial unit, couldn’t get away from his job and ate al desko. Dominic Green, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026 In 1916, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill led the Entente powers of the First World War in a crushing defeat on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 June 2025 To prepare for the voyage, the Admiralty retrofitted Erebus and Terror, a pair of Royal Navy bomb vessels that had recently returned from an Antarctic expedition led by James Clark Ross, with support from his friend Crozier. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025 Winston Churchill, who as Lord of the Admiralty switched the fuel for British warship from coal to oil, said that if oil was queen of the world, Baku was her throne. Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025 The location: The Upper House is part of the expansive Pacific Place complex in the Admiralty area of Hong Kong, where a number of hotels are clustered including the J.W. Marriott, Conrad Hotel and Shangri-La. Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025 After the war, Thomas, who was nicknamed the Commander for his time at the Admiralty, became Risdon Beazley’s shipwreck researcher. Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024

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