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Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (United Kingdom)
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The Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (V.C.N.S.) [1] was a senior appointment in the Royal Navy usually a three-star rank and had a NATO ranking code of OF-8 that existed from 1941 to 1985 and was a member of the Admiralty Naval Staff.
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Vice Chief of the Naval Staff | |
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Department of the Admiralty, Ministry of Defence | |
Abbreviation | V.C.N.S. |
Member of | Board of Admiralty, Admiralty Board |
Reports to | Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff |
Nominator | First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for Defence |
Appointer | Prime Minister Subject to formal approval by the King-in-Council |
Term length | Not fixed (typically 2–3 years) |
Formation | 1941 |
First holder | Sir Henry Moore |
Final holder | Sir Peter Stanford |
Abolished | 1985 |
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