William Staveley

Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley , GCB , DL (* 10. November 1928 in Mamhull , Dorset ; † 13. October 1997 in Sevenoaks , Kent ) was a British naval officer of the Royal Navy , the last as Commodore (Admiral of the Fleet) between 1985 and 1989 first Sea Lord (first Sea Lord) was.

Life

Training and uses as a naval officer

Sea Captain Staveley was in command of the light aircraft carrier HMS Albion between May 1972 and 1973 .

William Doveton Minet Staveley was the son of Rear Admiral Cecil Minet Staveley and his wife Margaret Adela Sturdee. His paternal grandfather was General Charles William Dunbar Staveley and his maternal grandfather was Admiral of the Fleet Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet . He himself began after visiting the West Downs School in 1942 as a midshipman training as a naval officer in the Royal Naval College (BRNC) and found uses on board the light cruiser HMS Ajax and the destroyer HMS Zephyr . He was promoted to Leutnant zur See (Sub-Lieutenant) on January 1, 1948 and was then used on the light cruiser HMS Nigeria and the light cruiser HMS Bermuda . It was on September 1, 1950 to lieutenant commander (Lieutenant) transported. and was subsequently used on the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia and the destroyer HMS Cavalier .

On September 1, 1958 Staveley became a Lieutenant Commander ( Lieutenant Commander ) promoted and completed in 1959, the Royal Naval College in Greenwich . After other uses, he was promoted to frigate captain (Commander) on December 31, 1961 , whereupon he took over his first command of the ship in January 1962 as the commander of the minesweeper HMS Houghton . With this he took part in a mission during the so-called Konfrontasi , a conflict between Indonesia and Malaysia that lasted from 1963 to 1966. After he briefly commander in October 1967 frigate HMS Zulu was made on December 31, 1967 was promoted to Captain (Captain) and appointed Deputy Head of Marine Planning in the Ministry of Defense . In November 1970 he took over the post of commander of the amphibious landing ship HMS Intrepid and held it until April 1972. He was then commander of the light aircraft carrier HMS Albion between May 1972 and 1973 and then graduated from the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS), after which he was director of the naval planning department in the Ministry of Defense between February 1974 and August 1976.

Ascent to Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord

Then William Staveley from October 1976, until March 1977 commander of the 2nd Flotilla (Flag Officer, Second Flotilla) and became during this use with effect from January 7, 1977 Rear Admiral (Rear Admiral) transported. He then acted as commander of the aircraft carriers and amphibious landing units (Flag Officer, Carriers and Amphibious Ships) from March 1977 to July 1978 and, as such, was also the commander of the NATO aircraft carrier attack group Two (NATO Commander, Carrier Striking Group Two) . He then took over from October 1978 to June 1980 the post of Chief of Staff of the Fleet Command (Chief of Staff to Commander in Chief, The Fleet) and received in this use, with effect from 11 April 1980 was promoted to Vice Admiral (Vice-Admiral) .

In July 1980 Vice Admiral Staveley replaced Vice Admiral Anthony Morton as Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff and remained in this position until October 1982, when Vice Admiral Peter Stanford succeeded him. On June 13, 1981, he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) and has since had the addition of "Sir". After he had been promoted to Admiral with effect from October 29, 1982 , he replaced Admiral John Fieldhouse as Commander-in-Chief, The Fleet . He held this position until his replacement by Admiral Nicholas Hunt in June 1985 and was at the same time Commander-in-Chief of the Allied NATO Command Channel CINCHAN (Commander-in-Chief, Allied Command Channel) and Commander-in-Chief of the NATO Armed Forces in the East Atlantic CINCEASTLANT (Commander -in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic ) . On June 16, 1984, he was the Grand Cross ( Knight Grand Cross ) awarded the Order of the Bath (GCB).

He was last in August 1985 successor to Admiral of the Fleet John Fieldhouse as First Sea Lord (First Sea Lord) and at the same time as Chief of Naval Staff (Chief of the Naval Staff) . He was also first aide-de-camp of Queen Elizabeth II. For the Navy. He held these functions until his replacement by Admiral Julian Oswald in May 1989. In May 1989 he was appointed Fleet Admiral (Admiral of the Fleet) transported, retired from active duty and retired.

Other engagement, marriage and offspring

Staveley has also been involved in the beacon management ( Trinity House ) since 1973 as a Younger Brother and in 1987 became both an honorary citizen of London ( Freeman of the City ) and a member of the shipbuilders' guild ( Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights ) . He was also Trustee and Director of the Historical Society for Chatham Dockyard from 1988 until his death in 1997 , Trustee and Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital, and a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Kent at Canterbury . In 1990 he was also a member of the London Advisory Board on English Heritage Trust , and on 14 February 1992 Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the County of Kent .

His marriage to Bettina Kirstine Shuter in 1954 had a son. He died of complications from a myocardial infarction .

Web links

• Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Staveley on thepeerage.com , accessed December 30, 2018.
• ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS
• CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS
• Obituary: Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Staveley , in: The Independent, October 16, 1997
• Adm. William Doveton Minet STAVELEY (prabook.com)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 38751, HMSO, London, November 1, 1949, p. 5204 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 39035, HMSO, London, October 6, 1950, p. 4969 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41557, HMSO, London, November 25, 1958, p. 7215 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44493, HMSO, London, December 29, 1967, p. 71 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
5. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 111
6. ↑ CAPTAINS COMMANDING ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS , p. 104
7. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 22
8. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 170
9. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47117, HMSO, London, January 10, 1977, p. 358 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
10. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 59
11. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 98
12. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 48155, HMSO, London, April 14, 1980, p. 5611 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).
13. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 10
14. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
15. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 48639, HMSO, London, June 12, 1981, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed December 27, 2018, English).
16. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 95
17. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
18. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 49768, HMSO, London, June 16, 1984, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed December 27, 2018, English).
19. ↑ ROYAL NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS , p. 2
20. ↑ London Gazette . No. 52835, HMSO, London, February 14, 1992, p. 2584 ( PDF , accessed December 30, 2018, English).

predecessor	Office	successor
Sir Anthony Morton	Vice Chief of the Naval Staff 1980-1982	Sir Peter Stanford
Sir John Fieldhouse	Commander-in-Chief, The Fleet 1982-1985	Sir Nicholas Hunt
Sir John Fieldhouse	First sea lord 1985–1989	Sir Julian Oswald