List of fleets and major commands of the Royal Navy

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Formations of the Royal Navy

The professional head of the Royal Navy is known as the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS).

There are presently two senior subordinates to the 1SL: the

Second Sea Lord, who is also the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff; and the Fleet Commander
.

Fleets up until 2012

  • Atlantic Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet (1909–1914, 1919–1932)
  • Battle Cruiser Fleet (1915–19)
  • British Pacific Fleet - Commander-in-Chief British Pacific Fleet (1944–1945)
  • Commander-in-Chief Fleet (1971-2012, succeeded by post of Fleet Commander)
  • Channel Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Channel Fleet (1904-1909, 1914–1915)
  • Channel Squadron
    - Vice-Admiral, Commanding Channel Squadron (1859-1904) - designated Fleet
  • Eastern Fleet
    - Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet (formerly only C-in-Cs East Indies, Australia and China Stations), 1941–1971.
  • First Fleet - Commander-in-Chief First Fleet, (1912–14)
  • Far East Fleet
    - Commander, Far East Fleet c.1952-1971
  • Grand Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Grand Fleet (1914-1918)
  • Home Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet (1902–1904 and 1932–1967)
  • Mediterranean Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean (1690–1967)
  • North Sea Fleet, Commander-in-Chief, North Sea Fleet, (1781-1815)
  • Reserve Fleet - Vice Admiral Commanding, Reserve Fleet (interwar, at least since 1928[citation needed] (1700 - 1960)
  • Second Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Second Fleet, (1912–14)
  • Third Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Third Fleet, (1912–14)
  • Western Fleet - Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet (1967–1971)

Historic commands

Included:[1]

Commanders-in-Chief

Admirals Commanding

Vice-Admirals Commanding

The Vice-Naval Deputy to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe was not technically a Vice-Admiral Commanding.

Rear-Admirals Commanding

Senior Officers, commanding

Flag Officers

Former Flag Officers

Included:[11]

Commodores in command appointments

Included:Current Commodores, flying Broad Pennants in Command

  • Commander Amphibious Task Group
    - COMATG
  • Commander British Forces, Gibraltar
  • Commander UK Carrier Strike Group -COMCSG
  • Commander Surface Flotilla
  • Commander Submarine Flotilla
  • Commander UK Maritime Component Command, Bahrain (UKMCC)
  • Naval Base Commander, HMNB Portsmouth
  • Naval Base Commander, HMNB Devonport
  • Naval Base Commander, HMNB Clyde
  • Commanding Officer,
    RNAS Yeovilton
  • Commander Maritime Reserves
    - COMMARRES (flies blue broad pennant of an RNR Officer)
  • Commodore of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary - COMRFA (flies blue RFA broad pennant)

Selection of current Commodores, not entitled to fly a Broad Pennant

  • Commodore, Head Defence Maritime Regulator, Defence Safety Agency
  • Commodore, Operational Training
  • Commodore, Assistant Chief of Staff Carrier Strike and Aviation

Former Commodore command appointments

Included:[11]

  • Commodore Air Train, British Pacific Fleet (COMAT/BPF) - 1945
  • Commodore, Amphibious Warfare
    - COMAW or COM(AW)
  • Commodore, Commander Naval Forces Gulf
  • Commander UK Task Group (COMUKTG) - 2001-2011
  • Commander, Devonport Flotilla COMDEVFLOT - (2002-2020)
  • Commander, Faslane Flotilla COMFASFLOT - (2011-2020)
  • Commodore Commanding 12th Cruiser Squadron
  • Commodore Commanding Cruiser Squadron, (1899-1902) [32]
  • Commodore Commanding Landing Craft Bases
  • Commodore Commanding Mine-Countermeasures Flotilla - (1971-1999)
  • Commodore Commanding New Zealand Squadron, March 1921 - October 1940.[33] HQ Auckland, commanding naval forces in New Zealand. Commodore's appointment abolished and forces brought directly under CNS from October 1940. The operational authority was the Commodore, Auckland, from 1961[34] which changed to the Maritime Commander in March 1993.[35] Alternately rendered as Commodore Commanding, New Zealand Station, HQ Auckland, (1919–1941).
  • Commodore Commanding Pakistan Flotilla
  • Commodore Commanding South American Division
  • Commodore Commanding South American Division of the America and West Indies Squadron
  • Commodore Commanding South East Coast of America,[32]
  • Commodore Eastern Fleet Destroyer Flotilla
  • Commodore Fleet Train, British Pacific Fleet (COFT/BPF) - 1945
  • Commodore for Flotilla Duties, Gibraltar
  • Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham - (1904-1969)
  • Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport - (1902-1969)
  • Commodore-in-Charge and Commodore Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Simonstown
  • Commodore-in-Charge, Naval Air Stations, Eastern Stations[36]
  • Commodore-in-Charge, Hamburg
  • Commodore in Charge, HM Australian Naval Establishments, Sydney[37]
  • Commodore in Charge, Hong Kong
  • Commodore in Charge, Jamaica[38]
  • Commodore-in-Charge, Naval Air Stations, Ceylon[36]
  • Commodore, Malaya
  • Commodore, Naval Air Stations, East Africa[36]
  • Commodore, Naval Air Stations, North
  • Commodore, Naval Aviation
  • Commodore of Convoys
  • Commodore Royal Naval Reserve - Cdre RNR
  • Commodore
    Royal Yachts
  • Commodore Superintendent, Taranto RN Base (1945)
  • Senior Naval Officer West Indies - SNOWI

Senior Royal Marines appointments

The Royal Marines are part of the Naval Service

Former Royal Marines appointments

Squadrons and flotillas

Main article: List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy

See also

  • Bibliography of 18th-19th century Royal Naval history

Footnotes

  1. ^ Mackie 2022, pp. 2 ff..
  2. ^ Waters, S. D. (1956). "The Search for the Admiral Graf Spee". Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45: The Royal New Zealand Navy. Wellington: Historical Publications Branch. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  3. ISBN 9780786438099
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  4. ISBN 978-0816060221
    .
  5. ^ "Admiral Commanding Coastguard and Reserves - The Dreadnought Project". dreadnoughtproject.org. The Dreadnought Project, 7 June 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  6. ^ Haarr, Geirr (24 September 2013). The Gathering Storm: The Naval War in Northern Europe September 1939 - April 1940. Seaforth Publishing. p. 160.
    ISBN 9781473832732
    . Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  7. ^ Archives, The National. "Records of the Coastguard". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. National Archives, 1816-1947. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  8. ^ a b Drucker, G. (2005). "Fleet Air Arm Service Records: Flag Officer Index". Fleet Air Arm Archive. Archived from the original on 6 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ Mackie 2022, p. 199.
  10. ^ Mackie 2022, p. 200.
  11. ^ a b Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. "World War II unit histories & officers, Royal Navy". www.unithistories.com. Houterman and Koppes, 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  12. ^ Mackie 2022, p. 260.
  13. ^ a b Mervik, Captain C. F. "The Integrated Fleet HQ and aviation's place within". Flight Deck (Winter 2001).
  14. ^ "ADM 199/1804: Flag Officer (Air) Far East". The National Archives. 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  15. ^ "HMS Theseus, British light fleet aircraft carrier". Naval-History.net. 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  16. ^ "Fleet Air Arm Service Records: Flag Officer Index". Fleet Air Arm Archive.net. 2005. Archived from the original on 6 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  17. ^ "Naval Aviation Organization". Flight. LIX (2204): 483. 20 April 1951. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  18. ^ a b "Change of Command in the Mediterranean". Colonial Film. May 1952. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  19. ^ a b Stationery Office, H. M. (May 1951). The Navy List. Spink and Son Ltd, London, England. p. 385.
  20. ^ "Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm News: Carriers in the Spring Cruise". Flight. 65 (2347): 83. 15 January 1954. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  21. ^ "HMS Tyne, history". Royal Navy. Archived from the original on 11 August 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
  22. ^ Kindell 2012.
  23. OCLC 49632006
    . Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  24. ^ "Malta". godfreydykes.info. 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  25. ^ Brock, P.W. (2009). "The Pyecroft stories". The Kipling Society. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  26. ^ "Rear Admiral Peter Howes". King's College London. 2010. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012.
  27. ^ a b "Air Force, Naval and Army Flying News: Naval Air Command". Flight. 84 (2847): 592. 3 October 1963. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  28. ^ "No. 63039". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 June 2020. p. 11075.
  29. ^ "Looking Back at Sukarno's Navy". www.britains-smallwars.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008.
  30. ^ "Vice Admiral the Hon, Sir Nicholas Hill-Norton KCB". www.tenix.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2006.
  31. ^ Stationery Office, H. M. (May 1951). The Navy List. Spink and Son Ltd, London, England. p. 386.
  32. ^ a b Government, H.M. (18 April 1902). The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 217.
  33. ^ Waters, S. D. (1956). "Appendix VI: Members of the New Zealand Naval Board". Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45: The Royal New Zealand Navy. Wellington: Historical Publications Branch. p. 539. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  34. AH & AW Reed
    . p. 115.
  35. ^ East, Paul (2 September 1996). "New Chief of Naval Staff announced". New Zealand Government Press Release. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  36. ^ a b c Houterman, J.N. "Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 -- E". www.unithistories.com. J.N.Houterman, 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  37. ^ "GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE SERIES, 1883–1957, 1926–38 Captain Superintendent, Sydney, and Captain-in-Charge, New South Wales (CA 4338); 1938–42 Captain-in-Charge (from 1939, Commodore in Charge, HM Naval Establishments. (CA 4339)". National Archives of Australia. Archived from the original on 5 February 2010. This series contains correspondence records about the activities of both the British Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy. The series began in 1883 (from Sydney Station, Port of Sydney) and extended to Command Eastern Australia Area in 1957. These records deal with the management of civilian and service establishments, and include material about ships, dockyards, depots, staff management, discipline, navigation, and the establishment and erection of various depots.
  38. ^ Government, H.M. (18 April 1902). The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 216.

References

  • Drucker, G. (2005). "Fleet Air Arm Service Records: Flag Officer Index". Fleet Air Arm Archive.
  • Government, H.M. (18 April 1902). The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office.
  • Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. (2016) "World War II unit histories & officers, Royal Navy". www.unithistories.com. Houterman and Koppes.
  • Kindell, Don (2012). "North Atlantic Command, Force H, South Atlantic Command, America & West Indies Command, Eastern Fleet, January 1942". Naval History.net. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  • Mackie, Gordon (December 2022). "Royal Navy Senior Appointments from 1865" (PDF). Colin Mackie at gulabin.com.
  • Niehorster, Leo Dr. (2013) World War II Armed Forces — Orders of Battle and Organizations - British, Colonial, and Dominion Armed Forces - British, Colonial, and Dominion Navies . http://niehorster.org/index.htm
  • Roskill, S.W., Captn., DSC., RN, The war at sea, 1939-1945, Vol.I, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1954 (maps of operational Commands of the Royal Navy during the Second World War taken from Roskill, but not attributed, together with Fleet appendixes also taken from his work can be found at http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4201-40RNShips4Overseas.htm. Note from Naval-History.Net. The map was assembled from a variety of sources. The Fleet Appendices are not from Roskill's work, which does not include them. They were compiled from Admiralty Pink and Red lists.
  • Stationery Office, H. M. (May 1951). The Navy List. Spink and Son Ltd, London, England.
  • Stewart, William . (2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
    ISBN 9780786438099
    .

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