Jervis's investigations disrupted shipbuilding as officials left their work to defend themselves or were replaced. He had expected such reform to be damaging during war and argued that it had to be done in peacetime. After leaving the Admiralty, he returned to the Channel Fleet and rose to admiral of the red. William Pitt also trusted him with a mission to Portugal, where he prepared the arrangements later used to evacuate the Portuguese royal family to Brazil.
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Return to the Channel Fleet and the Portugal mission
Jervis returns to Channel Fleet command and prepares the Portugal evacuation arrangements later used to move the royal family to Brazil.