Night fighting did not create a separate Royal Navy watchkeeping service

Did specialist night-fighting ships use different watchkeeping arrangements?

The Royal Navy generally expected every ship to operate around the clock rather than assigning a separate night-only crew.

Repeated night actions could keep an entire crew awake and raise the question of specialist watch arrangements. Some US Navy night-carrier units may have used such arrangements, although the evidence offered here is tentative. A British ship was expected to operate continuously, whether its demanding period fell by day or night. That expectation carried a substantial personnel and fatigue burden behind the simple claim of twenty-four-hour readiness.