ABSTRACT
An examination of the Navy List for January 1927 shows the Royal Naval College Greenwich organised in the form that was to endure up to the Second World War. In fact, Barry Domvile, while content to complain at length, seems to have done little to overhaul the system, and by his own account directed his energies not to the reform of training, but rather bizarrely to the organisation of a series of Greenwich Night Pageants. Sir Richard Webb retired in April 1929 after superintending a period when the war and staff courses undoubtedly needed time to settle and establish themselves after the corrosive cuts of the early 1920s. The Greenwich Night Pageants were a massive popular success, and the photographs of huge crowds and dramatic backlit buildings of the College provide some of the most iconic images of the 1930s.
