Staff Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs 8 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 Staff Sir Geoffrey Blake, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign) Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs 12 May 1940: Commission A. V. Alexander, 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 Sir Geoffrey Blake, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign) Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs 27 May 1940: Commission A. V. Alexander, 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 Sir Geoffrey Blake, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign) Arthur Power, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Home) Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs 25 July 1940: Commission A. V. Alexander, 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 Henry Moore, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Trade) Sir Geoffrey Blake, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign) Arthur Power, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Home) Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord Sir James Lithgow, Bt, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs 2 December 1940: Commission A. V. Alexander, First Lord Sir Dudley Pound,