Twelfth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla (Royal Navy)
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The Twelfth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla was a formation of fleet minesweepers of the Royal Navy that operated out of Clyde and Harwich late in the war alongside the sweeping gunboats of the Thirteenth Fleet Sweeping Flotilla.
History
February, 1919 – X
The formation is based in Harwich alongside the Sixth (or Harwich), Nineteenth and Twentieth (or Felixstowe) Fleet Sweeping Flotillas. Gaddesden is paid off.[1]
| Operating from Harwich | |||||
| Sweeping Sloops | |||||
| Gaddesden* | Irvine | Kendal | Marlow | Saltburn | Southdown |
Senior Officers
- Lieutenant in Command Geoffrey H. Hughes-Onslow, 1 April, 1919 – 10 July, 1919
Footnotes
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 15 and Supplements through X.
Bibliography
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
See Also
| British Minesweeping Formations |
| Fleet Sweeping Flotillas (Great War) |
| First | Second | Third | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth |
| Eleventh | Twelfth | Thirteenth | Fifteenth | Sixteenth | Eighteenth | Nineteenth |
| Twentieth | Twenty-first | Twenty-second | Twenty-third | Twenty-fourth |
| Minesweeping Flotillas (World War II) |
| First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth |
