Phillips, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty John Jestyn Llewellin, Civil Lord 12 June 1939: Commission The Earl Stanhope, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Little, Second Sea Lord Bruce Fraser, Third Sea Lord Geoffrey Arbuthnot, Fourth Sea Lord The Hon. Sir Alexander Ramsay, Fifth Sea Lord Tom Phillips, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty John Jestyn Llewellin, Civil Lord 15 July 1939: Commission The Earl Stanhope, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Little, Second Sea Lord Bruce Fraser, Third Sea Lord Geoffrey Arbuthnot, Fourth Sea Lord The Hon. Sir Alexander Ramsay, Fifth Sea Lord Tom Phillips, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord 3 September 1939: Commission Winston Churchill, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Little, Second Sea Lord Bruce Fraser, Third Sea Lord Geoffrey Arbuthnot, Fourth Sea Lord The Hon. Sir Alexander Ramsay, Fifth Sea Lord Tom Phillips, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Harold Burrough, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord 21 November 1939: Commission Winston Churchill, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Little, Second Sea Lord Bruce Fraser, Third Sea Lord Geoffrey Arbuthnot, Fourth Sea Lord Guy Royle, Fifth Sea Lord Tom Phillips, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Harold Burrough, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord 1 February 1940: Commission Winston Churchill, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Little, Second Sea Lord Bruce Fraser, Third Sea Lord Geoffrey Arbuthnot, Fourth Sea Lord Guy Royle, Fifth Sea Lord Tom Phillips, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Harold Burrough, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs 4 April 1940: Commission Winston Churchill, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord Sir Charles Little, Second Sea Lord Bruce Fraser, Third Sea Lord Geoffrey Arbuthnot, Fourth Sea Lord Guy Royle, Fifth Sea Lord Tom Phillips, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Harold Burrough, Assistant Chief of Naval