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| Office overview | |
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| Formed | 1414 |
| Preceding Office |
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| Dissolved | 1707 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Jurisdiction | Parliament of England |
| Headquarters | Admiralty Building Whitehall London Kingdom of England |
| Office executive | |
| Parent Office | Privy Council of England |
During the early 17th century, England's relative naval power deteriorated; in the course of the rest of the 17th century, the office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs steered the Navy's transition from a semi-amateur Navy Royal fighting in conjunction with private vessels into a fully professional institution, a Royal Navy. Its financial provisions were gradually regularised, it came to rely on dedicated warships only, and it developed a professional officer corps with a defined career structure, superseding an earlier mix of sailors and socially prominent former soldiers.[1]
- ^ Rodger, Safeguard, pp. 395–8; Rodger, Command, pp. 33–55, 95–122Ollard, 1984, ch.16;