The North America and West Indies Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed in North American waters from 1745 to...
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Division of the North America and West Indies Station was a sub-command of the British Royal Navy's North America and West Indies Station head-quartered...
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British and Commonwealth forces. Commerell went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station...
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Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Born the son of Rear-Admiral Sir George Johnstone Hope and Lady Jemima...
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28 February 1837 and promoted to vice admiral on 28 June 1838. He became Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station, with his flag in...
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Algernon Lyons (section Pacific Station)
became commanding officer of the sloop HMS Racer on the North America and West Indies Station in May 1860. In HMS Racer he had the difficult task of protecting...
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HMS York (90) (section Design and description)
served on the North America and West Indies Station before World War II. Early in the war the ship escorted convoys in the Atlantic and participated in...
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served the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. As part of the North America and West Indies Station, she took part in naval operations...
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its newfound importance as a Royal Navy and British Army base from which the North America and West Indies Station could be controlled meant increasing interest...
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Christopher Cradock (category People from Richmond, North Yorkshire)
during the Mahdist War and the Boxer Rebellion was all ashore. Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station before the war, his...
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HMS Carnarvon (section Design and description)
Falklands. She was assigned to the North America and West Indies Station in 1915 and continued to patrol against German raiders and escort convoys to the end of...
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West Indies Squadron can refer to one of the following: West Indies Squadron (United States), a United States Navy formation North America and West Indies...
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HMS Jamaica (44) (section Battle of North Cape)
Pacific. Jamaica spent the late 1940s in the Far East and on the North America and West Indies Station. When the Korean War began in 1950 she was ordered...
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became the North America Station again, with the West Indies falling under the Jamaica Station, and in 1816 it was renamed the North America and Lakes of...
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HMS Bristol (1910) (section Design and description)
transferred to the 4th Cruiser Squadron (4th CS) of the North America and West Indies Station in mid-1914. Bristol was briefly deployed to Mexico during...
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Frederick Bedford (section Legacy and memorials)
commander-in-chief of the North America and West Indies Station, serving with the flagship HMS Crescent. The squadron under his command visited Jamaica and Bermuda in...
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Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet (category First Sea Lords and Chiefs of the Naval Staff)
1832 general election he returned to sea and became Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station, hoisting his flag in the fourth-rate...
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Halifax and on 23 November was at Bermuda preparing to sail for Jamaica in the West Indies. Once there, on 3 January 1840, she intercepted and detained...
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Admiralty House, Bermuda (section Move to the West End)
North America and West Indies Station. The first location of the Admiralty House had been at Rose Hill, in St. George's Town, between 1795 and 1806. This...
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in the Mediterranean Fleet and then, from 1839, in the sixth-rate HMS Cleopatra on the North America and West Indies Station. Promoted to lieutenant on...
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Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Born the son of General Godfrey Basil Mundy and Sarah Bridges...
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returned to the Channel Fleet before being transferred to the North America and West Indies Station in 1915 after a brief spell as a guard ship at Gibraltar...
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of the war on 23 March. The ship was re-assigned to the North America and West Indies Station, based at the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda, in October...
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HMS Bellerophon (1865) (section Design and description)
Bellerophon remained on the North America and West Indies Station until 1881. An extensive refit, including new boilers and new armament was followed by...
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HMAS Psyche (section Design and construction)
Initially operating on the North America and West Indies Station, the cruiser was transferred to the Australian Squadron in 1903, and remained there until the...
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Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet (category First Sea Lords and Chiefs of the Naval Staff)
Navy officer. As a captain on the North America and West Indies Station he was employed capturing slave-traders and carrying out fishery protection duties...
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Daring served on the North America and West Indies Station. On 10 June 1846 she captured the Spanish slave schooners Rauret and Numa off Guano Point....
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HMAS Sydney (1912) (section Design and construction)
SMS Emden at the Battle of Cocos. During 1915 and 1916, Sydney operated on the North America and West Indies Station, before joining the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron...
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After service in the Baltic Sea and the North America and West Indies Station, she was converted to a training ship and renamed HMS Conway, surviving in...
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The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries...
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