The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD), also known as the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapon Development and colloquially known as...

nuclear weapons with the introduction of the first of the Resolution-class submarines armed with the Polaris missile. Following the conclusion of the collapse...

of coolness inherent in the Happy Days character Fonzie. During World War II, scientists working for the British Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development...

The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom that was responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Historically, its titular...

a collective responsibility for providing strategic direction to the department, managing performance and ensuring that defence delivers the required...

Admiralty's Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development was placed in command of Operation Pluto. By VE-Day his command would consist of several ships...

(working at the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development) who devised the "Swiss roll" which consisted of a floating roadway made of waterproofed...

of Churchill's war-winning Wizards, including atomic scientists, aeronautical engineers and the scientists of the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons...

academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth...

Development. In 1958 the two were re-united as divisions of the Weapons Department, under the Director General of Weapons (Director General, Weapons from...

outpost of the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD). It was commissioned as HMS Birnbeck, and was used for secret weapons development and...

DMWD may refer to: Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development, a British Admiralty department during World War II DMWD (gene), a human gene protein...

Set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, located near Eastbourne, it follows a well-meaning platoon of men ineligible for active service...

an atomic weapons research laboratory). Most of the 18th-century buildings were demolished, with the exception of the Storekeeper's House of 1719, which...

The Grand Fleet was the main battlefleet of the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was established in August 1914 and disbanded in April 1919. Its...

based on Thornycroft's First World War mortar. The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (the Wheezers and Dodgers) were advocating the multiple...

always a permanent member of the board until the Admiralty Department was established as an official government department in 1709 with the First Lord...

The Air Department of the British Admiralty (later succeeded by the Air Section and the Air Division) was established prior to World War I by Winston...

assembled an enormous fleet of oilers and supply ships of every type. Even before the war, it had been active in the development of underway replenishment...

telescope in honour of the celebrated inventor of the Newtonian reflecting telescope. Some two decades of development led to the commissioning of the Isaac Newton...

Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914...

Conditions Department of the Director of Manning Department of the Director Recruiting Department of the Director Service Conditions Department of the Director...

(1921–1943) Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (1941–1945) Inspectorate of Anti-Aircraft Weapons and Devices (1940) Weapons Department (1962–1964)...

the three service intelligence departments were amalgamated in the new Defence Intelligence Service at the Ministry of Defence. However, well before the...

Preventive Squadron, was a squadron of the Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. Formed in 1808...

design and development, 1906-1922. Barnsley: Seaforth Pub. ISBN 978-1-84832-085-7. "Completed acquisition by Babcock International Group plc of Devonport...

Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or more popularly Board of Longitude, was a British government body formed in 1714 to administer a scheme of prizes intended...

work of the several departments of the Admiralty. This responsibility did not always coincide with control of staff and the head of a department might...

carriers armed with nuclear weapons led to the creation of a separate Striking Fleet Atlantic, directly responsible to the commander of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic...

The Far East Fleet (also called the Far East Station) was a fleet of the Royal Navy from 1952 to 1971. During the Second World War, the Eastern Fleet included...