When this position was abolished duties were assumed by separate committees for Accounts, Correspondence, Stores, Transports and Victualling presided over by the Comptroller of the Navy.

In 1832 following reforms of the naval service the Navy Office was abolished and its functions and staff taken over by the Admiralty.

Based at Deptford for most of the sixteenth century, the Navy Office later moved to the Tower Hill area of London.

[1] In 1655 it relocated to a site at the crossroad of Crutched Friars and Seething Lane but in 1673 the office building was destroyed by fire.

[2] The Navy Office continued to be based in Tower Hill until its move in 1786 to Somerset House.

were established in a number of locations over time, usually to serve a nearby anchorage used by naval vessels.