List of Royal Navy shore establishments

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This is a list of shore establishments (or stone frigates) of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve.

Current Royal Navy shore establishments

RNAS Yeovilton

BRNC

HMS Raleigh

Northwood HQ

Rosyth Dockyard

HMS Vulcan

HMNB Devonport

HMNB Portsmouth

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Royal Navy bases and establishments in the United Kingdom (Portsmouth establishments: HMS Collingwood, HMS Excellent, HMS Sultan, HMS Temeraire, Institute of Naval Medicine)

HMS Jufair

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Royal Navy support facility in Bahrain

Mare Harbour

RAF Mount Pleasant

Stanley

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Mare Harbour, the base for Royal Navy vessels in the Falkland Islands & South Atlantic

Naval bases

Devonport, Devon
)

HMS Nelson (HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth)
Faslane, Dunbartonshire
)

Air stations

HMS Seahawk (RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall)
- RNAS Predannack
HMS Heron (RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset)
- RNAS Merryfield
HMS Gannet (formerly known as RNAS Prestwick, South Ayrshire)

Training establishments

HMS Collingwood (Fareham, Hampshire)
HMS Dartmouth (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon)
- Includes Hindostan as static training ship
HMS Excellent (Whale Island, Portsmouth)
HMS Raleigh (Torpoint, Cornwall)
- Includes Brecon as static training ship
HMS Sultan (Gosport, Hampshire)
HMS Temeraire (Directorate of Naval Physical Training and Sport (DNPTS), Portsmouth)

Other

HMS Caledonia, Rosyth Dockyard, Fife
HMS Saker, Administrative aggregation of Royal Navy personnel based in the United States
Institute of Naval Medicine (Alverstoke, Hampshire)^[1]
Northwood Headquarters (Northwood, Hertfordshire, England), formerly HMS Warrior. Operational HQ for Commander Operations

Defence Munitions Centres

Formerly

Royal Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support

Testing establishments

Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (HMS Vulcan) (Dounreay, Thurso, Caithness)
- Currently being decommissioned, to be demolished by 2033^[2]

Overseas naval facilities

Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory)^[6]

Current Royal Marines establishments

Yeovilton

HMNB Portsmouth

MOD St Athan

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Royal Marines Establishments - Green: RM Units, Blue: Royal Navy Establishments, Red: Training, Roundel: Fleet Air Arm

station

Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon
RM Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon – Headquarters, 3 Commando Brigade and 30 Commando (IX) Group
Poole, Dorset – Special Boat Service and 148 (Meiktila) Commando Forward Observation Battery

RM Condor, Arbroath, Angus – 45 Commando and 7 (Sphinx) Commando Battery
RM Tamar, HMNB Devonport – 47 Commando (Raiding Group)
RM Norton Manor, Taunton, Somerset – 40 Commando
RM Bickleigh, Plymouth, Devon – 42 Commando

RM Chivenor, Braunton, Devon – Commando Logistic Regiment and 24 Commando Royal Engineers

RM Instow, Instow, Devon – 11 Amphibious Trials and Training Unit
Camp Viking, Øverbygd, Norway – Arctic operations base for Littoral Response Group (North)^[10]

Significant RM presences are also located in

HMNB Portsmouth
HMNB Clyde – 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group
MOD St Athan – A company sized contingent as part of SFSG
RNAS Yeovilton – Commando Helicopter Force

Bovington Camp – Royal Marines Armoured Support Group
Bardufoss Air Station – Commando Helicopter Force

Royal Marines Band Service

HMS Nelson, HMNB Portsmouth
– Band of HM Royal Marines School of Music

HMS Raleigh – Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth
HMS Collingwood – Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood
MoD Caledonia
– Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland
Commando Training Centre Royal Marines – Band of HM Royal Marines Commando Training Centre

Royal Marines Reserve

Royal Marines Reserve City of London, Wandsworth, London^[11]
- Cambridge Detachment
- Marlow Detachment
- Portsmouth Detachment
Royal Marines Reserve Bristol, Dorset House, Bristol^[12]
- Lympstone Detachment
- Plymouth Detachment
- Poole Detachment
- Cardiff Detachment
Royal Marines Reserve Merseyside, Brunswick Dock, Liverpool^[13]
- Birmingham Detachment
- Leeds Detachment
- Manchester Detachment
- Nottingham Detachment
Royal Marines Reserve Scotland, at
HMS Caledonia, Rosyth Dockyard^[14]
- Aberdeen Detachment
- Dundee Detachment
- Edinburgh Detachment
- Glasgow Detachment
- Belfast Detachment
- Newcastle Detachment

Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

The modern Royal Naval Reserve has fifteen Units (with 3 satellite units). These are:

Tyne & Wear
, England
HMS Cambria, Cardiff, Wales
- Tawe Division (Swansea)
HMS Ceres, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
HMS Dalriada, Glasgow, Scotland^[15]
HMS Eaglet, Liverpool, England
HMS Forward, Birmingham, England
HMS Flying Fox, Bristol, England
HMS Ferret, Chicksands, Bedfordshire, England
HMS Hibernia, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
HMS King Alfred, Whale Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
HMS President, by Tower Bridge, London, England
- Medway Division (Rochester, Kent)
HMS Scotia, Rosyth, Fife, Scotland (Within the grounds of HMS Caledonia)
- Tay Division (Dundee)
HMS Sherwood, Nottingham, England
HMS Vivid, HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England
HMS Wildfire, Northwood, Middlesex, England

Former shore establishments

Former Imperial fortresses

Royal Naval Air Station Bermuda, HMCS Somers Isles

Royal Navy Dockyard, Gibraltar, HMS Rooke
Admiralty House, Halifax, Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax
Admiralty House, Valletta, HM Dockyard Malta

Former naval bases

Former air stations

RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) (previously HMS Ariel) Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England
HMS Kestrel, World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, Hampshire^[16]
RNAS Lossiemouth (HMS Fulmar) Lossiemouth
, Moray 1946 -1972

HMS Jackdaw II, Dunino Kingsbarns Fife Satellite airfield of Crail
RNAS Donibristle
, Fife 1917–1959 (also known as RAF Donibristle)
ASDIC
training; Flag Officer Sea Training; RNAS Portland (Lynx helicopter)
HMS Robin, Grimsetter, Kirkwall, Orkney, RNAS Grimsetter
HMS Siskin, Gosport Hampshire, Now HMS Sultan
HMS Tern, Twatt Orkney RNAS Twatt
HMS Nuthatch, RNAS Anthorn
HMS Goldcrest, three naval air stations were commissioned as Goldcrest, RNAS Angle, RNAS Dale and RNAS Brawdy, in Pembrokeshire, Wales
HMS Urley, Second World War flying station on the Isle of Man
HMS Nightjar, RNAS Inskip (also known as HMS Inskip)

Former Royal Naval Hospitals

RNH Bermuda.
RNH Bighi
, Malta
RNH Gibraltar, Gibraltar
RNH Gillingham, in Medway, Kent
RNH Greenwich, in London
RNH Haslar, Gosport, England
RNH Mauritius
RNH Mtarfa, Malta
RNH Plymouth, known as Stonehouse, Devonport, England
RNH Portland, Dorset.
RNH Simon's Town, South Africa
Royal Naval Hospital (Hong Kong) – now Ruttonjee Hospital in Hong Kong, China
RNH Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Former shore bases

A to D

HMS Abastor, Tilbury
Woolston, Southampton^[17]

HMS Afrikander, Base depot ship, Simon's Town, South Africa
Newhaven, East Sussex
HMS Allenby, Combined Operations base, Folkestone
HMS Ambrose, Headquarters of 9th Submarine Flotilla (1940–1946), Dundee
Ceylon
HMS Ararat (later HMS Brontosaurus), Combined Training Centre, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
HMS Arbella, Combined Operations Landing Craft Training Establishment, Boston, Lincolnshire
HMS Appledore, Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremington Camp, Fremington, Devon
HMS Appledore II, Combined Operations base, Ilfracombe
RNAS Worthy Down, Winchester, Hampshire

HMS Ariel, Royal Naval Aircraft Training Establishment, Culcheth, Warrington, Cheshire
HMS Armanillo, Combined Operations RN Beach Commando training centre, Glenfinnart
HMS Asbury, shore based transit accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey
HMS Atlantic Isle, U-boat monitoring station, Tristan da Cunha during WWII^[18]
HMS Attack, Coastal Forces MLs and storage, RN Dockyard, Portland
HMS Avalon, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
HMS Badger, HQ of Flag Officer Harwich and Coastal Forces base (1939–1946), Harwich
HMS Baldur (also HMS Baldur II), Accommodation and accounting, Iceland
HMS Beaver, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber, (1 October 1940 – July 1945) – (base A.O. at Grimsby)
HMS Beaver II, Coastal Forces MLs, Immingham
HMS Bee, Coastal Forces MLs working up base, Weymouth (1942–1943), then Holyhead, Wales (1943–1945)
HMS Beehive, Coastal Forces MTBs and MGBs, Boomer Hall, Felixstowe, Suffolk
HMS Bellerophon, Portsmouth, Hampshire
HMS Benbow, Trinidad
HMS Birnbeck, Secret weapons research and testing (1941–1946), Birnbeck Pier, Weston-super-Mare^[19]
HMS Bluebird III, (formerly HMS Allenby, possibly), Folkestone
HMS Boscawen, Naval Police Patrol HQ, Portland, Dorset
HMS Britannia III, Coastal Forces
Motor Gun Boats, Dartmouth

HMS Brontosaurus (formerly HMS Ararat), Combined Operations landing craft crew training, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll
HMS Cabbala, Training establishment for WRNS W/T operators, at Lowton^[20] near Warrington^[21]
HMS Caledonia, Rosyth, Fife
HMS Cambridge (shore establishment), Wembury, Devon
HMS Caroline (1914), Coastal Forces MLs, Belfast
HMS Centurion, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS Centurion, Haslemere, Surrey
HMS Ceres (formerly HMS Demetrius), Wetherby, Yorkshire
HMS Ceres, Yeadon, West Yorkshire
HMS Cicala, Coastal Forces MTBs & MGBs, Dartmouth^[22]^[23]
HMS Claverhouse, Coastal Forces MLs, Leith
RNAS Donibristle/HMS Merlin), Rosyth, Fife

HMS Copra, Combined Operations Pay, Ratings and Accounts, The Moorings, Largs^[24]
HMS Cricket, Landing Craft training base, River Hamble, Hampshire
HMS Dalriada, Royal Naval Reserve base, Greenock, Inverclyde,^[15]
HMS Dalriada, Royal Naval Reserve base, Inverkip, Inverclyde,
HMS Dartmouth II, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Dartmouth
Devonport, Devon
HMS Defiance, Fleet Maintenance Base, Devonport
HMS Dinosaur I, HQ for tank landing craft training, Troon, Ayrshire
HMS Dinosaur II, Landing craft and work-up base, Irvine, Ayrshire
HMS Dorlin, Combined Operations RN Beach Signals and Royal Signals sections battle training, Dorlin House, Acharacle, Argyll
HMS Dolphin, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS Dryad, former location of the Maritime Warfare School, Southwick, Hampshire
QinetiQ
research site.
HMS Dundonald I, Holding and training base for RN Beach Commandos, Gailes Camp, Auchengate, Troon, Ayrshire
HMS Dundonald II, Combined Signal School (CSS), Auchingate, Troon, Ayrshire

E to K

Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta

HMS Ferret (later HMS Sea Eagle), Convoy escort base and anti-submarine training, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
HMS Fervent, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Ramsgate
HMS Fisgard, artificer and engineer training (1848–1983), Torpoint, Cornwall
HMS Flora III, Coastal Forces MLs, Invergordon, Scotland
Mobile Naval Air Bases during World War II, Ludham then Middle Wallop. RNAS Kai Tak from 1947.^[25]

HMS Flowerdown,
Y-station at RAF Flowerdown

HMS Foliot I, Landing craft accounting base, Plymouth
HMS Foliot III, Combined Operations holding base, Buckleigh, Plymouth
HMS Forest Moor, HF receiver station, Nidderdale, Harrogate
HMS Forte IV, Coastal Forces MLs, Falmouth
Newhaven
HMS Forward II (later
Newhaven
HMS Fox, Coastal Forces MTBs & MLs, Lerwick, Scotland
Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk

HMS Glendower WWII training establishment, Butlin's Pwllheli holiday camp, Caernarfonshire
HMS Golden Hind, WW2 RN Barracks, Sydney, Australia
HMS Gosling, Royal Naval Air Establishment, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire, was a collection of 5 camps responsible for various aspects of training FAA personnel
HMS Gunner, Auxiliary Patrol base, Lerwick, Shetland
HMS Haig, Rye
HMS Hannibal, Algiers
HMS Harrier, Radar training establishment, near Dale, Pembrokeshire^[26]
HMS Hawke, Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire
HMS "Hawke", a temporary naval training school based within part of the Borstal Institution, 1940-46^[27]
HMS Helder, Landing craft training, Brightlingsea
Arctic convoys concentration point, 1942–44, Loch Ewe

Ceylon

HMS Hornet, Coastal Forces Depot MTB, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS Idaho, WWI base at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire^[28]
HMS Inskip, Inskip, Preston, Lancashire
HMS Jackdaw, RNAS Crail, Fife
HMS James Cook, Combined Operations Beach Training Establishment, Glen Caladh, Nr Tighnabruaich, Argyll
HMS Jufair, Bahrain
HMS Kestrel (later HMS Ariel), Royal Naval Air Station and General Service Establishment, Worthy Down, near Winchester, England
RNVR officer training centre, Hove, Sussex

L to R

Ceylon

HMS Lizard, Combined Operations landing craft base, Shoreham
HMS Lochailort, Combined Operations officer training, Inverailort House, Lochailort, Inverness-shire
HMS Lochinvar, Fleet Minesweeper base, Port Edgar, South Queensferry
HMS Louisburg (also HMS Roseneath), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
HMS Lynx, HQ, Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dover & CO HMS Lynx, (10 July 1945 – April 1946)
HMS Macaw, Bootle, Cumbria, England. FAA aircrew reception centre.
HMS Malabar, Bermuda
HMS Manatee, Landing craft, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
HMS Marlborough, Electrical training school, Eastbourne^[29]
HMS Mastodon, Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire
HMS Mauritius, Mauritius
HMS Martelo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (1 October 1945 – April 1946)
HMS Medina, Landing craft and Fleet Air Arm, Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Western Isles
HMS Mercia, Communications Training Centre, Coventry
Petersfield, Hampshire
HMS Midge, Great Yarmouth
HMS Minos, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (5 May 1942 – 1 October 1945)
HMS Monck, Combined Training HQ, Largs, Ayrshire
HMS Monck, Combined Operations Carrier Training, Port Glasgow
HMS Monck, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
HMS Monck, HQ Flag Officer Greenock, Greenock
HMS Nemo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Brightlingsea, (June 1940 – May 1945)
Newhaven
HMS Nile, Alexandria, Egypt (1939–1946)
HMS Nimrod, Anti-submarine warfare training from early 1940, Campbeltown, Argyll
HMS Northney (HMS Northney I, HMS Northney II, HMS Northney III and HMS Northnney IV), Landing craft training base, Hayling Island
HMS Osprey, (from January 1941), Asdic training, advanced courses for officers, Dunoon, Argyll
HMS Owl, RNAS Fearn, Fearn, Ross-shire
HMS Pasco, Combined Operations landing craft signals training, Glenbranter Camp, Glenbranter, Strachur, Argyll
Chatham, Kent

Chatham, Kent

Chatham, Kent

HMS Phœnicia, Manoel Island, Malta
HMS Phoenix, Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Admiralty accounting base, Furse House, 37 Queen's Gate Terrace
, London SW7

HMS President II, HQ, Liaison Officer for Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy Duties, London, (8 February 1938 – August 1939)

HMS Proserpine, Lyness, Orkney
HMS Pyramus, Kirkwall, Orkney
HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land-based gunnery school, Shore Rd., Ainsdale Southport, Lancashire
Inverary, Argyll

HMS Return,
British Embassy in Tokyo^[30]^[31]

HMS Robertson, Holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent
HMS Rooke, Gibraltar
HMS Roseneath (also HMS Louisburg), Combined Operations, Roseneath, Dunbartonshire
SIGINT), Cuxhaven
, Germany. Post-WWII

HMS Royal Arthur, Petty Officers' training school, Butlins Skegness, later Corsham, Wiltshire^[32]
SIGINT), Cuxhaven
, Germany. Post-WWII

Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London

S to Z

Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta

HMS St Barbara, Bognor Regis, Sussex, anti-aircraft firing range and gunnery training school^[33]
Fort William, Inverness-shire^[34]

HMS St George, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS St Matthew, Commando training base 1943–1945, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
HMS St Vincent (1927–1969), Boys and Juniors Training Establishment, Gosport, Hampshire
HMS St Vincent (1992–1998), Communications centre, Whitehall, London
Salford
HMS Sanderling, RNAS Abbotsinch, Abbotsinch, Glasgow
HMS Scotia, Basic training, 1942, from 1959 RNR Rosyth, Butlin's Ayr, South Ayrshire
Eglinton, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

HMS Sea Serpent, Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, near Chichester
HMS Seahawk, Coastal Forces training base, Ardrishaig, Argyll^[35]
HMS Sembawang (Singapore Naval Base), was the Royal Navy's biggest dockyard and its base of operations in the Far East from 1939 until 1971. HMS Terror (1945–1971) was the barracks next to the naval base, while the nearby HMS Simbang was a RN Air Station.
HMS Sheba, Aden
HMS Sparrowhawk, RNAS Hatston, Orkney, Scotland
Western Approaches Command, St Enoch's Hotel, Glasgow

HMS Squid, Tank landing craft repair base, Southampton
HMS Squid II, Landing craft squadron staff, Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe
Kielder, Northumberland^[36]

HMS Stopford, Landing craft working-up base, Bo'ness
HMS Talbot, Manoel Island, Malta
HMS Tamar, Base operated from 1897 to 1997 at two locations in Hong Kong
HMS Tarlair, Hydrophone training school during World War I, Hawkcraig near Aberdour
HMS Tern, RNAS Twatt, Orkney, Scotland
Keyham and Manadon, Plymouth
, Devon

HMS Tormentor, Landing craft operational base, Hamble, Southampton
HMS Tormentor II Training camp, Cowes, Isle of Wight
HMS Tullichewan (previously HMS Spartiate II), Holding base for Combined Operations, Tullichewan Castle Camp, Balloch, Loch Lomond, Scotland^[37]
HMS Turtle, Combined Operations training, Poole, Dorset
Ceylon
HMS Valkyrie, Training establishment for HO ratings, Isle of Man^[21]
X class submarine training, Port Bannatyne Hydropathic Hotel, Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute
, Scotland

X class submarine advanced training, Ardtaraig House, Loch Striven, Argyll
, Scotland

Cowes, Isle of Wight

HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, Hampshire
HMS Wagtail, RNAS Ayr
HMS Warren, Combined Operations senior officer training, Largs, Ayrshire
HMS Wasp, Coastal Forces HQ, Lord Warden Hotel, Dover^[38]
HMS Watchful, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth, (14 April 1942 – July 1945)
Southend
HMS Westcliffe II, Combined Operations holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex
Chatham, Kent

HMS Wildfire II (1939–1940), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
HMS Wildfire III (1940–1946), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
HMS Woolvestone, Landing craft base, Ipswich
HMS Yeoman, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, London, (3 February 1942 – July 1945)
HMS Yeoman, HQ, Naval Officer-in-Charge, London, (1-30, April, 1946)

Other

Bedhampton Camp, former non airfield satellite of RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus).
Seafield Park, a non airfield site near to RNAS Lee-on-Solent.

Royal Naval Armaments Depots

RNAD Broughton Moor, Cumbria, England
RNAD Crombie, Fife

RNAD Dean Hill, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
RNAD Gosport including Priddy's Hard, Hampshire
, England

Royal Naval Stores Depots

Include:[39]

RNSD Almondbank/RNAW Almondbank/RNAW Perth, Almondbank, Perth & Kinross – now a Eurocopter installation.
RNSD Coventry, Warwickshire, England
RNSD Copenacre, England. (1940–1995),^[40]
RNSD Eaglescliffe, Teesside, England
RNSD Llangennech, Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, Wales, (1945–1995) ^[41]
RNSD Lathalmond, Dunfermline, Scotland
RNSD Trecwn, Trecwn, Pembrokeshire, West Wales
RNSD Woolston, Woolston, Southampton, Hampshire, England

Royal Navy Aircraft Yards

RNAY Wroughton, Aircraft storage and maintenance unit, Wroughton, Swindon, England

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Further reading

Shield of Empire – The Royal Navy and Scotland, Brian Lavery, Birlinn 2007
ISBN 978-1-84158-513-0

External links

Coastal Forces Shore establishments

Combined Operations Training Establishments

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Defence Munitions Centres

Testing establishments

Overseas naval facilities

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Significant RM presences are also located in

Royal Marines Band Service

Royal Marines Reserve

Current Royal Naval Reserve units and establishments

Former shore establishments

Former Imperial fortresses

Former naval bases

Former air stations

Former Royal Naval Hospitals

Former shore bases

A to D

E to K

L to R

S to Z

Other

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References

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