Plans Division (Royal Navy)

Plans Division
United Kingdom
Division overview
Formed1917
Preceding Division
Dissolved1964
Superseding Division
JurisdictionGovernment of the United Kingdom
HeadquartersAdmiralty Building
Whitehall
London
Division executive
  • Director Plans
  • Deputy Director of Plans
Parent DivisionAdmiralty War Staff, Admiralty Naval Staff

The Plans Division [1] was the former war preparation and wartime strategic planning arm of the Admiralty Department from 1917 to 1964, The division originally became the main policy advisory and formulating body to the Chief of the Naval Staff.[2] It later came under the supervision of the Assistant-Chief of the Naval staff (Policy).

When it transferred to the Navy Department (Ministry of Defence) it was renamed the Plans and Resources Division until 1971 it then became the Directorate of Naval Plans.

  1. ^ Bond, Brian; Roy, Ian (5 October 2015). War and Society Volume 2: A Yearbook of Military History. Routledge. p. 87. ISBN 9781317414476.
  2. ^ The Royal Navy Today. Odhams Press Limited, London. 1942. p. 64.