Commander Operations (Royal Navy)

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Commander Operations
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg
Ensign of the Royal Navy
Incumbent
Major-General Richard Cantrill
since 26 April 2022
Ministry of Defence
AbbreviationCOMOPS
Member of Navy Command
Reports to Fleet Commander
Seat Northwood Headquarters, Hertfordshire, England
Nominator Secretary of State for Defence
Appointer Prime Minister
Subject to formal approval by the King-in-Council
Term length Not fixed (typically 1–3 years)
Inaugural holderRear-Admiral Roger Lane-Nott
Formation1993
Website royalnavy.mod.uk

The Commander Operations (COMOPS) [1] is a senior Royal Navy officer based at Northwood Headquarters who exercises operational command of all national maritime operations on behalf of the Fleet Commander. [2] The post was established in 1993.

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Commander Operations previously held the additional posts of Commander Task Force (CTF) 311 (UK attack submarines) and CTF 345 (UK nuclear missile submarines). [3] [4] In 2015, Rear Admiral John Weale was appointed Rear Admiral Submarines/Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Submarines, while Rear Admiral Robert Tarrant was made Commander Operations (Royal Navy), separating the two posts. [5] [6]

Post-holders

Post-holders have included: [6]

Subordinate formations 2016-2017

Included: [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Commander Maritime Operations visits personnel in the Gulf" . Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Navy Command senior, as of September 2017". MOD. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  3. ↑ Joining Britain's Royal Navy Archived 2013-12-26 at the Wayback Machine Undersea Warfare
  4. ↑ "SUEZ WAR OF 1956". Godfreydykes.info. 1956-11-05. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
  5. ↑ "Rear Admiral John Weale" (PDF). Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Senior Royal Navy Appointments" (PDF). Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Ministry of Defence Organogram". data.gov.uk. MOD, 31 March 2016. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Navy Command senior staff CSV". Ministry of Defence . Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Mackie, Colin (1 October 2020). "Admirals October 2020" (PDF). gulabin.com. Colin Mackie. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  10. ↑ Mackie, Colin (1 October 2020). "Admirals October 2020" (PDF). gulabin.com. Colin Mackie. Retrieved 5 November 2020. Commodore James Le S. Perks: Commander, Submarine Flotilla, April 2020
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