Admiralty, in full Board Of Admiralty, in Great Britain, until 1964, the government department that managed naval affairs. In that year the three service departments the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Air Ministry were abolished as separate departments and merged in a new unified Ministry of Defence, and the Admiralty was renamed the Admiralty Board of the Defence Council. England’s navy was originally governed by a “great officer of state” called the lord high admiral of England. Early in the 18th century this office was placed in the hands of commissioners known as the Board of Admiralty. The board derived its
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