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The [[Royal Navy]]'s '''Annual Manoeuvres of 1901''' were described in documents issued publically from the Admiralty on 10 July.{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8}}  An official report of the manoeuvres was later issued.

==Scenario and Rules==
Two fleets "B" and "X" would engage in a battle exercise between the 56th and 47th parallels.  The event was umpired by Vice-Admiral Sir [[Robert Harris]] and Rear-Admirals [[James Lacon Hammet|James L. Hammet]] and Sir [[Baldwin Wake Walker, Second Baronet|Baldwin Walker, Bart.]], with Lieutenant General J. F. Owen, R.A. helping to determine the effect of land defences.

==Fleet "B"==
Fleet "B" would would cruise the North Sea and would coal at any of the "fortified" (and unassailable, in this scenario) ports of Plymouth, Portland or Portsmouth, at which ports it also maintained forces of cruisers and torpedo craft.  Britain was considered the territory of Fleet "B".

===Main Fleet===
* Major Units
** {{UK-1Revenge}}, [[Frederic William Fisher]]{{FC}}
** {{UK-SansPareil}}, [[Archibald James Pocklington]]
** {{UK-Howe}}, [[Henry Louis Fleet]]
** {{UK-Nile}}, [[Robert Sidney Rolleston]]
** {{UK-Trafalgar}}, [[George Anson Primrose]]
** {{UK-1Benbow}}, [[Francis Raymond Pelly]]
** {{UK-Anson}}, [[William Wilson]]
** {{UK-Camperdown}}, [[Alvin Coote Corry]]
** {{UK-1Collingwood}}, [[Leslie Creery Stuart]]
** {{UK-1Colossus}}, [[James Edward Clifford Goodrich]]
** {{UK-1Edinburgh}}, [[Frederick Sidney Pelham]]
** {{UK-1Dreadnought}}, [[Henry Compton Anderson Baynes]]
** {{UK-Amphitrite}}, [[William Blake Fisher]]
** {{UK-Ariadne}}, [[William Stokes Rees]]
** {{UK-Edgar}}, [[George Astley Callaghan]]
** {{UK-2Galatea}}, [[Robert Dalrymple Barwick Bruce]]{{FC}}
** {{UK-Imperieuse}}, [[Peyton Hoskyns]]
** {{UK-Minerva}}, [[Charles Home Cochran]]
** {{UK-Hyacinth}}, [[Robert Kyle McAlpine]]
** {{UK-Forth}}, [[Edward Percy Ashe]]
** {{UK-Andromache}}, unknown captain
** {{UK-Apollo}}, [[Reginald Purves Cochran]]
** {{UK-2Pandora}}, [[Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe]]
** {{UK-Fox}}, [[Charles Hope Robertson]]
** {{UK-Latona}}, [[Frederick Robert William Morgan]]
** {{UK-Onyx}}, [[Gerald Oliver]]
* Destroyers from Portsmouth 
** {{UK-1Peterel}}, [[Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier]]?
** {{UK-Kestrel}}, [[Theobald Walter Butler Kennedy]]?
** {{UK-Chamois}}, [[Cecil Foley Lambert]]
** {{UK-Kangaroo}}, [[Arthur John Davies]]
** {{UK-Crane}}, [[Michael Henry Hodges]]?
** {{UK-Vulture}}, [[Alfred Barnett Barker]]?
** {{UK-Fawn}}, [[Francis Herbert Mitchell]]
** {{UK-Myrmidon}}, [[Cyril Samuel Townsend]]

===Squadron "C"===
Squadron "C" was a sub-component of Fleet "B" based on Plymouth
* Squadron "C" Main Force
** {{UK-Spartan}}, [[Edmond John Warre Slade]]
** {{UK-Sirius}}, [[Herbert Lyon]]
** {{UK-Skipjack}}, [[Sydenham Gordon Douglas]]?
** {{UK-1Renard}}, [[Sholto Grant Douglas]]?
* Squadron "C" Destroyers from Devonport
** {{UK-Bat}}, [[Roger John Brownlow Keyes, First Baron Keyes|Roger J. B. Keyes]]?
** {{UK-Fairy}}, [[Cyril Asser]]?
** {{UK-3Shark}}, [[Douglas Walter Hamilton-Gordon]]
** {{UK-Opossum}}, [[Cecil George Chichester]]
** {{UK-Wolf}}, [[Bernard Long]]?
** {{UK-Panther}}, [[Frederick Hare Hallowes]]?
** {{UK-Fervent}}, [[Edward Hugh Meredith Nicholson]]
** {{UK-1Hasty}}, [[George Vincent Wallace Carey]]
** {{UK-Zephyr}}, [[Horace Walker Longden]]

===Squadron "D"===
Squadron "D" was a sub-component of Fleet "B" based on Portland and Portsmouth
* Squadron "D" Main Force
** {{UK-1Melampus}}, [[Henry Hart Dyke]]?
** {{UK-Mercury}}, [[William John Grogan]]
** {{UK-Prometheus}}, [[Cresswell John Eyres]]
** {{UK-2Severn}}, [[Frederick Fogarty Fegen]]?
** {{UK-Scylla}}, [[Charles Henry Hodgson Moore]]
** {{UK-Leda}}, [[William Sims]]?
** {{UK-Speedwell}}, [[William Francis Benwell]]?
* Squadron "D" Destroyers from Portsmouth
** {{UK-1Spiteful}}, unknown commander
** {{UK-2Starfish}}, [[Bernard St. George Collard]]
** {{UK-Viper}}, [[William Speke]]
** {{UK-1Havock}}, [[Geoffrey Tatton Bowles]]
** {{UK-1Brazen}}, [[Christopher Powell Metcalfe]]?
** {{UK-Dove}}, [[Geoffrey Tatton Bowles]]
** {{UK-Wizard}}, [[John Ambrose Slee]]
** {{UK-Violet}}, [[Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair, Twelfth Laird of Freswick|Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair]]
** {{UK-1Electra}}, [[Cecil Dacre Staveley Raikes]]?
** {{UK-1Teazer}}, [[Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson]]
** {{UK-Surly}}, [[Ernest Orford Ballantyne]]
** {{UK-Sylvia}}, [[John Alexander Ingles]]?
** {{UK-1Hunter}}, [[Rudolf Miles Burmester]]
** {{UK-Charger}}, [[George Parker Bevan]]
** {{UK-Bullfinch}}, [[John Alexander Duncan]]

===Under C-in-C, Plymouth===
These ships based at Plymouth supported Fleet "B", the starred ships being for "examination service".
* {{UK-1Antelope}}, [[Oliver Adrian Stokes]]?
* {{UK-Traveller}}*, unknown commander
* {{UK-Tay}}, [[Guy de Lancy Ormsby Johnson]]
* {{UK-TB45}}, [[Richard Wyville Bromley]]
* {{UK-TB52}}, [[Robert Francis Pitcairn]]
* {{UK-TB53}}, [[Arthur Thomas Muir]]
* {{UK-TB54}}, [[John Knowles im Thurn]]

''The Times'' indicates that {{UK-TB80}} was to be involved as flotilla lead, but she is not listed in the official report.{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|Thursday, July 11, 1901, Issue 36504, p.8}}

===Under C-in-C, Portsmouth===
These ships based at Portland and Portsmouth supported Fleet "B", the starred ships being for "examination service".
* Portland Ships
** {{UK-Spanker}}*, [[Henry Ernest Fraser Worthington]]
** {{UK-Spey}}*, [[James Winstanley Pochin]]
** {{UK-1TB26}}, [[Douglas William O'Bryen Forsyth]]
** {{UK-1TB27}}, [[Hector Boyes]]

* Portsmouth Ships
** {{UK-Circe}}, [[George Shadwell Quartano Carr]]?
** {{UK-Magnet}}*
** {{UK-Raven}}*, [[Edward Joseph Bain]]?
** {{UK-1Landrail}}*, [[Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt]]
** {{UK-Trent}}*, [[Cecil Eustace Rooke]]
** {{UK-TB41}}, [[Nicholas Edward Archdale]]
** {{UK-TB42}}, [[Hubert Edward Dannreuther]]
** {{UK-TB49}}, [[Frederick Vere Williamson]]
** {{UK-TB50}}, [[Neston William Diggle]]

==Fleet "X"==
Fleet "X" would cruise off the North Coast of Ireland, and be able to coal at the "fortified" (and unassailable) port of Queenstown and the Scilly Islands and maintain cruisers and torpedo craft at the Scillys and the Channel Islands.  Ireland, the Scillys and the Channel Islands were territories of "X".

===Main Fleet===
* Major Units
** {{UK-Majestic}}, [[Edward Eden Bradford]]?
** {{UK-Magnificent}}, [[Arthur John Horsley]]?
** {{UK-PrinceGeorge}}, [[Robert Archibald James Montgomerie]]?
** {{UK-Jupiter}}, [[Archibald Berkeley Milne, Second Baronet|Sir Archibald B. Milne]]?
** {{UK-Hannibal}}, [[Gerald Walter Russell]]?
** {{UK-Mars}}, [[Henry Deacon Barry]]?
** {{UK-1Resolution}}, [[Alexander William Chisholm-Batten]]?
** {{UK-1Repulse}}, [[Spencer Henry Metcalfe Login]]?
** {{UK-Diadem}}, [[Henry Leah]]?
** {{UK-Niobe}}, [[John Denison]]?
** {{UK-Hawke}}, [[Algernon Horatio Anson]]
** {{UK-Immortalite}}, [[Sackville Hamilton Carden]]?
** {{UK-1Narcissus}}, [[Ernest Kindersley Loring]]?
** {{UK-1Furious}}, [[Frederick Tower Hamilton]]?
** {{UK-Arrogant}}, [[Henry Charles Bertram Hulbert]]?
** {{UK-1Mersey}}, [[Charles Holcombe Dare]]
** {{UK-1Rainbow}}, [[Arthur Hale Smith-Dorrien]]
** {{UK-Retribution}}, [[Robert Hathorn Johnston Stewart]]
** {{UK-Pelorus}}, unknown commander
** {{UK-Pactolus}}, [[Francis Alban Arthur Giffard Tate]]?
** {{UK-Gleaner}}, [[Frank Henry Peyton]]?
* Fleet "X" Destroyers from Devonport
** {{UK-Leven}}, [[Pennant Athelwold Iremonger Lloyd]]?
** {{UK-Locust}}, [[Stephen Herbert Radcliffe]]?
** {{UK-Thorn}}, [[Thomas Legge Barnardiston]]
** {{UK-Vigilant}}, [[Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Cherry]]
** {{UK-Leopard}}, [[Alan Everett Hudson]]?
** {{UK-1Gipsy}}, [[Harry Lionel Wells]]?
** {{UK-1Tiger}}, [[Alexander Hahnemann Quicke]]
** {{UK-Osprey}}, [[Arthur Tudor Darley]]

===Squadron "Y"===
Squadron "Y" was a sub-component of Fleet "X" based in the Scilly Islands
* Squadron "Y" Main Force
** {{UK-1Brilliant}}, [[Henry Coare Kingsford]]
** {{UK-Aeolus}}, [[Arthur Yerbury Moggridge]]
** {{UK-1Sharpshooter}}, [[Benjamin James Blower]]?
** {{UK-Jason}}, [[Henry Harvey Bruce]]?
** {{UK-Hecla}}, [[John Irvine Graham]]
* Squadron "Y" Destroyers and T.Bs. from Chatham
** {{UK-Lee}}, unknown commander
** {{UK-Cynthia}}, [[James William Guy Innes]]?
** {{UK-1Sturgeon}}, [[John Arthur Lambert Hay]]
** {{UK-Cheerful}}, [[Barry Edward Domvile]]
** {{UK-Desperate}}, [[Basil Ayton Austen]]?
** {{UK-Angler}}, [[Oliver Backhouse]]
** {{UK-2Salmon}}, [[Ivor Francis Chichester]]
** {{UK-Mallard}}, [[Philip James Stopford]]?
** {{UK-TB58}}, [[Robert James Buchanan]]
** {{UK-TB66}}, The Hon. [[Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay]]
** {{UK-TB76}}, [[Mervyn Patrick Traill-Smith]]
** {{UK-TB98}}, [[Forster Delafield Arnold-Forster]]

===Squadron "Z"===
Squadron "Z" was a sub-component of Fleet "X" based in the Channel Islands
* Squadron "Z" Main Force
** {{UK-1Thames}}, [[Arthur Calvert Clarke]]
** {{UK-1Iris}}, [[Julian Charles Allix Wilkinson]]
** {{UK-Iphigenia}}, [[Richard Henry Peirse]]
** {{UK-1Intrepid}}, [[Robert Grant Fraser]]
** {{UK-Seagull}}, [[Murray MacGregor Lockhart]]
** {{UK-1Sheldrake}}, [[Ralph Fearon Ayscough]]
* Squadron "Z" Destroyers and T.Bs. from Chatham
** {{UK-Mermaid}}, [[John Frederick Ernest Green]]?
** {{UK-Zebra}}, [[Laurence Richard Oliphant]]
** {{UK-Avon}}, [[Robert Henry Coppinger]]
** {{UK-Bittern}}, unknown commander
** {{UK-Spitfire}}, [[Stanley Ray Miller]]
** {{UK-Albatross}}, [[Frederic William Dean]]?
** {{UK-1Snapper}}, [[John Roderick Segrave]]?
** {{UK-Haughty}}, [[John Moore Casement]]
** {{UK-Porcupine}}, 
** {{UK-1Ariel}}, [[Bertram Mordaunt Chambers]]
** {{UK-1Contest}}, [[Claud Hamilton Sinclair]]
** {{UK-Dasher}}, [[Kerrison Kiddle]]
** {{UK-TB55}}
** {{UK-TB79}}, [[Arthur Edward Frederick Bedford]]
** {{UK-TB81}}, [[Sydney Stewart Hall]] (in command of flotilla)
** {{UK-TB82}}, [[Algernon Henry Chester Candy]]
** {{UK-TB85}}, [[Charles Laverock Lambe]]
** {{UK-TB86}}, [[George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey]]

===Under Rear-Admiral, Queenstown===
These ships supported Fleet "X", the starred ships being for "examination service".
* {{UK-1Curlew}}, [[Charles Henry Umfreville]]
* the twin screw vessel H.M.S. ''Seahorse''*
* the tugboat H.M.S. ''Stormcock''*

==Action==
The Admiralty published the typical dry account of the exercise rich in detail.  A more exciting accounting is found in the public press of the day, capturing the novel intensity of interest in such evolutions as recorded by journalists aboard both fleets, reporting via wireless telegraphy.{{ToL|The Naval Manoeuvres|31 July 1901, p. 10}}

==Bibliography==
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* Admiralty "Naval Manœuvres, 1901".  Copyright 2005, ProQuest.  under "Simon PDFs/UK/Command Papers"
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