• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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