sentences:  He was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1963 Birthday Honours.Luce became First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in August 1963.He resigned from the Royal Navy along with Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew on 15 March 1966 in protest over the decision by the Labour Secretary of State for Defence, Denis Healey, to cancel the CVA-01 aircraft carrier programme.