The Commander in Chief, Dover was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally...
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The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally...
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Home Fleet (redirect from Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet)
the additional appointment of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and allotted a rear-admiral to serve under him as commander of the Home Squadron. "... the...
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2°59′36″W / 53.4074°N 2.9932°W / 53.4074; -2.9932 Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches was the commander of a major operational command of the Royal Navy...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. Plymouth Command was a name given to the units, establishments...
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The Commander-in-Chief, China, was the admiral in command of what was usually known as the China Station, at once both a British Royal Navy naval formation...
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Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes (category Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order)
Admiralty and then took command of the Dover Patrol: he altered tactics and the Dover Patrol sank five U-boats in the first month after implementation of...
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Robert Cunliffe (Royal Navy officer) (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Dover. Cunliffe joined the Royal Navy in September 1912. He was present at the Battle of Jutland in June 1916 during...
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Bertram Ramsay (category Chief Commanders of the Legion of Merit)
with the Axis threat. Promoted to vice-admiral, he was named Commander-in-Chief, Dover, on 24 August 1939. His duties included overseeing the defence...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. The commanders-in-chief were based at premises in High...
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Horace Hood (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
during the Race for the Sea. Later in the year, Hood became Commander-in-Chief, Dover and commander of the Dover Patrol, tasked with preventing German...
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British Pacific Fleet (redirect from Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet)
Commander-in-Chief of the British Eastern Fleet and hoisted it in the gunboat Tarantula, a worn out ship in use as offices, as Commander-in-Chief British Pacific...
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Henry Pridham-Wippell (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
HMS Barham in November 1941. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Dover, in 1942. After the war, Pridham-Wippell was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland was both an admiral's post and a naval formation of the Royal Navy. It was based at Queenstown, now Cobh, in Ireland...
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Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel by an order in council dated 23 October. The posts of Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Levant was a senior administrative shore commander of the Royal Navy. The post was established in February 1943 when the British...
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who became Commander-in-Chief, Dover. Bousfield joined the Royal Navy in January 1906. He served in the cruiser HMS Skirmisher and then in the battleship...
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The Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic was an operational commander of the Royal Navy from 1939. The South American area was added to his responsibilities...
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Mediterranean Fleet (redirect from Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet)
first Commander-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Fleet was the appointment of General at Sea Robert Blake in September 1654 (styled as Commander of the...
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Britannia Royal Naval College (redirect from Commander Royal Naval College Dartmouth)
Dartmouth was rated by Ofsted as inadequate. Amanda Spielman, Ofsted's Chief Inspector, said Dartmouth received the rating due to the poor state of the...
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The Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET) was the admiral responsible for the operations of the ships, submarines and aircraft of the British Royal Navy...
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The Commander-in-Chief, Africa was the last title of a Royal Navy's formation commander located in South Africa from 1795 to 1939. Under varying titles...
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Far East Fleet (United Kingdom) (redirect from Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet)
In 1971 the Far East Fleet was abolished and its remaining forces returned home, coming under the command of the new, unified, Commander-in-Chief Fleet...
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Pacific Station (redirect from Commander-in-Chief, Pacific)
America station was split, this responsibility was passed to the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific. In 1843, George Paulet, captain of Carysfort, took her out from...
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Royal Navy (category 16th-century establishments in England)
courageous armed forces of which You are Commander-in-Chief, is extraordinary."] MoD Website: people – First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff Archived 22 November...
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(1845-1896) Commander-in-Chief, The Downs - (1717–1834) Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, HQ Colombo Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (1865–1941) Commander-in-Chief, Dover - (1914–1945)...
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Royal Navy Medical Service (category 1918 establishments in the United Kingdom)
merged with that of Assistant Chief of Staff Medical/Medical Director General (Naval). In 2022 the post of Assistant Chief of Staff Medical/Head of the...
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Grand Fleet (category 1914 establishments in the United Kingdom)
Vice Admiral Francis Miller, the Base Admiral in Chief from 7 August 1914, devolving on the commander in chief, Admiral John Jellicoe. To relieve the administrative...
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was commanded by Commanders-in-Chief whose titles changed with the changing of the formation's name, eventually by the Commander-in-Chief, America and West...
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New Zealand Naval Forces (category Military units and formations established in 1913)
and the Persian Gulf. In 1919 Commodore, Alan Hotham was appointed commander-in-chief until 1921 when the New Zealand Naval Forces was renamed as the New...
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