2-645-665 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Board of Admiralty in Session', 1939 (1955). Directly under the lamp sits the First Sea Lord Admiral, Sir Dudley Pound. Established under the Defence Council of the United Kingdom for the administration of the Naval Service. The Board of Admiralty meets formally only once a year. Day-to-day running of the Royal Navy is conducted by the Navy Board, which does not include any ministers. From Churchill: The Man of the Century - A Pictorial Biography, edited by Neil Ferrier. [L.T.A. Robinson Limited, London, 1955]