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Revision as of 19:04, 20 May 2014

The Ninth Cruiser Squadron, also called Cruiser Force I from 1914, was a cruiser squadron of the Royal Navy.

Rear-Admiral Henry H. Campbell commanded the Squadron during the 1914 Test Mobilisation, and hauled down his flag at Sheerness on 26 July.[1]

The squadron ceased to exist on 3 January, 1919.[2]

Rear-Admirals Commanding

Dates of appointment given:

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Composition

December, 1912

[7]

December, 1913

Significant changes, yielding the same strength as last year. Ariadne, Diadem, and Spartiate have been sent on to greener pastures somewhere, replaced by Challenger, Highflyer and Vindictive.[8]

July, 1914

Operating as part of Third Fleet.[9]

5 August, 1914

Based in Portland, the squadron has lost Monmouth and possibly Donegal (or Argonaut has completed refit), leaving:[10]

March, 1915

[11]

  • Europa RAdm.png
  • Amphitrite
  • Argonaut
  • armed merchant cruiser Calgarian
  • armed merchant cruiser Carmania
  • armed merchant cruiser Edinburgh Castle
  • armed merchant cruiser Ophir
  • armed merchant cruiser Victorian

November, 1915

[12]

September, 1917

[13]

  • armoured cruiser Bacchante RAdm.png
  • battleship Africa
  • battleship Britannia
  • armoured cruiser King Alfred
  • armed merchant cruiser Ophir
  • armed merchant cruiser Mantua
  • armed merchant cruiser Marmora
  • armed merchant cruiser Morea

July, 1918

[14] The Squadron is small, and augmenting the larger force of the North America and West Indies Station.

November, 1918

[15]

  • armoured cruiser Bacchante RAdm.png
  • armed merchant cruiser Nivonia
  • armed merchant cruiser Silesia

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 27 July, 1914. Issue 40586, col B, p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist." The National Archives. ADM 6/461. ["Squadrons."] f. 20.
  3. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (September 1914). p. 5.
  4. ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. f. 20.
  5. ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. f. 20.
  6. ↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. f. 20.
  7. ↑ Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  8. ↑ Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  9. ↑ Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum. [BRG 1/1]
  10. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 15.
  11. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1915). p. 12.
  12. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1915). p. 19.
  13. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (September, 1917). p. 20.
  14. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (July, 1918). p. 21.
  15. ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1918). p. 21.

Bibliography


Cruiser Squadrons of the Royal Navy
First Cruiser Squadron | Second Cruiser Squadron | Third Cruiser Squadron | Fourth Cruiser Squadron | Fifth Cruiser Squadron
Sixth Cruiser Squadron | Seventh Cruiser Squadron | Eighth Cruiser Squadron | Ninth Cruiser Squadron | Tenth Cruiser Squadron
Eleventh Cruiser Squadron | Twelfth Cruiser Squadron | Fifteenth Cruiser Squadron | Eighteenth Cruiser Squadron
Cruiser Force F
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