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• Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets (Royal Navy)
  ...[Naval Medical Service (Royal Navy)|Naval Medical Service]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. In 1881 the number of Inspectors General was capped at four. The title was changed to [[Surgeon-General (Royal Navy)|Surgeon-General]] in 1911.<ref>Order in Council of 8 August, 1911.</ref>
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• Home Fleets (Royal Navy)
  The '''Home Fleets''' were the [[Royal Navy]]'s unified home commands in British waters from 1912 to 1914. ...n. The whole fleet came under the command of the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets.<ref name=M11735>M. 11735/12. Copy in {{TNA|ADM 1/8271.}}</ref>
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• Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets (Royal Navy)
  #REDIRECT [[Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets (Royal Navy)]]
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• Royal Navy
  ...history has ever had a tradition so long and glorious as that of the Royal Navy.''</div> ...le for personnel. The [[Third Sea Lord]] (also known as Controller of the Navy) was responsible for matériel. The [[Fourth Sea Lord]] (previously known
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• United States Navy
  The '''United States Navy''' was growing rapidly into a new maturity during the Dreadnought Era. It ...hat were completed were in commission only briefly. By the 1870s the U.S. Navy, apart from a still-substantial [[Monitor|monitor]] force, had reverted ver
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• H.M.S. Bellerophon (1907)
  |builder=[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]{{DittColl|p. 32}} ...phon Class Battleship (1907)|''Bellerophon'' class]], and the fourth Royal Navy vessel to bear the name of the mythic Greek hero. A previous ''Bellerophon
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• East Indies Station
  The '''East Indies Station''' was a squadron of the Royal Navy which encompassed the Indian Ocean. In 1941, the command was renamed as th [[Category:Royal Navy Fleets and Stations]]
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• H.M.S. Audacious (1912)
  |comp=15 Oct, 1913<ref>''Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1913&ndash;1914''. p. 37.</ref> |laid=23 Mar, 1911<ref>''Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1913&ndash;1914''. p. 37.</ref>
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• H.M.S. Neptune (1909)
  |builder=[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]{{DittColl|p. 32}} ...in 1912 flagship of the First Fleet of the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]]. She was relieved as fleet flagship in 1914 and joined the {{UK-BS|1}}.
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• H.M.S. Iron Duke (1912)
  |comp=9 Mar, 1914<ref>''Navy (Dockyard Expense Accounts). 1913&ndash;1914''. p. 29.</ref> |builder=[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]{{DittColl|p. 33}}
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• H.M.S. Warspite (1913)
  |builder=[[Devonport Royal Dockyard]]{{Conways1906|p. 33}} ...stian|Arthur H. Christian]], Commanding the Devonport Division of the Home Fleets, and Admiral [[William Marrack]].
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• H.M.S. Royal Oak (1914)
  <div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Royal Oak'' (1914)|fate2=by U-47 in Scapa Flow |name=Royal Oak
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• Allan Frederic Everett
  ...(22 February, 1868 &ndash; 22 January, 1938) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...d score). However, because four candidates who had been nominated for the Navy had failed the examination, and another candidate's health precluded him fr
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• Scapa Flow
  [[Category:Royal Navy Fleets and Stations]]
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• London Class Battleship (1899)
  |[[Devonport Royal Dockyard]] |[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]
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• H.M.S. Russell (1901)
  ...ncan Class Battleship (1901)|her class]] to be commissioned in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...serving as flagship to Rear-Admiral in the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]] at the Nore.{{AWO1913|722 of 12 Dec, 1913}}
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• Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage
  ...Navy (19 March, 1833 &ndash; 10 June, 1915) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. Nicknamed "Pompo" Heneage by those who served under him, he has attaine ...e was awarded the [[Royal Humane Society's Silver Medal]].<ref>''The Royal Navy List'' (July, 1884). p. 372.</ref>
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• Churchill Memorandum on a War Staff for the Royal Navy
  ...art 3 1911-1914''. pp. 1486-1490.</ref> The [[Admiralty War Staff (Royal Navy)|Admiralty War Staff]] was the result. ...without any mobilisation of reserves as soon as steam is raised. Ships or fleets of ships are capable of free and continuous movement for many days and nigh
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  ...ory of the [[Royal Navy]]. He was actively involved in the service of the Navy for over sixty years, starting his career during the Crimean War and ending He became a gunnery expert, founded the Navy's torpedo branch and upon joining the [[Board of Admiralty]] started a twen
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• John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe
  ...May, 1916. He served as [[First Sea Lord]], the professional head of the Navy, from 1916 to 1917. In that position he oversaw the introduction of convoy ...med quite distinct from the impulsiveness of [[Battle Cruiser Fleet (Royal Navy)|Battle Cruiser Fleet]] commander, Vice-Admiral [[David Richard Beatty, Fi
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• Louis Alexander Mountbatten, First Marquess of Milford Haven
  ...C. (24 May, 1854 &ndash; 11 September, 1921) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...y]] at Southsea, a crammer, to prepare for the entrance examination to the Navy. A minute of the [[Board of Admiralty]] of 3 August records that Battenber
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• Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
  ...this critical moment it was not merely a question of such qualities. The Navy and the public had to be convinced, and they would be most easily convinced ...is mind and stated that the change had to be made immediately, so that the Navy Estimates could be prepared by the new First Lord and so that the King coul
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• Stuart Nicholson
  ...11 October, 1865 &ndash; 10 September, 1936) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. Educated at the Royal Naval School.
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• First Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)
  ...First Battle Squadron''' was a formation of [[battleship]]s of the [[Royal Navy]]. The squadron changed composition often as ships were damaged, retired o ...rand Fleet]] at sea at sunset, April, 1915.<br><small>Photo: United States Navy. Naval History and Heritage Command. NH2714.</small>]]
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• Arthur William Turner
  ..., 1859 &ndash; 30 October, 1928) was an Engineering Officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...his promotion, Turner served on the staffs of the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets, and the Commander-in-Chief, Devonport.
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• Archibald Peile Stoddart
  ...5 September, 1860 &ndash; 18 December, 1939) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. As a Rear-Admiral he was second-in-command of the British naval forces w ...ion and was appointed Acting {{SubRN}}. In April he was appointed to the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich]], with a Second Class (1,025 marks), then in Dece
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• Charles Edward Madden, First Baronet
  ...avy (5 September, 1862 &ndash; 5 June, 1935) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. In 1892 he was appointed Torpedo Lieutenant of the ''Royal Sovereign'', Flagship of the Channel Squadron, and in 1893 resumed his post
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• Frederick Tower Hamilton
  ...[[First World War]]. His son, [[Henry Hamilton]], would also serve in the Navy in both World Wars, reaching the rank of {{CommRN}}. ...November, 1879.{{Gaz|24787|6940|28 November, 1879}} The Controller of the Navy, Vice-Admiral Sir William Houston Stewart, wrote to him that "I am glad to
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• Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet
  ...Rising to fleet command in the early 1900s, he was widely regarded as the Navy's preeminent tactician. He was promoted to {{FleetRN}} in 1907 and succeed ...99–1845. Wilson attended Eton College from 1852 to 1855; he entered the navy in 1855, and was immediately employed on active service in the Black Sea du
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• Atlantic Fleet (Royal Navy)
  ...905 to 1912, when it was absorbed into the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]], and from 1919 to 1932, when it was renamed the Home Fleet. ...tus and title of a Commander in Chief.<ref>Published as a Command Paper: ''Navy: Distribution and Mobilization of the Fleet''. Cd. 2335. p. 2.</ref> Lor
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• First Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
  ...Light Cruiser Squadron''' was a formation of light cruisers in the [[Royal Navy]]. Founded before the [[Great War]], during the war it was one of 3-4 such The squadron was:<ref>Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay B
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• List of Royal Naval War College Attendees in Alphabetical Order
  ...e Forces]], British Army, and foreign services who were appointed to the [[Royal Naval War College]] (and predecessor War Course College) between June, 1904 | Abo, K. || Commander, <small>Imperial Japanese Navy.</small> || 2 Oct., 1906 - 25 Jan., 1907 || &mdash;
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• George Astley Callaghan
  ...n "home waters", Callaghan was arguably as important an influence on Royal Navy war planning in the last years of peace as the Sea Lords. ...ames Hodgson, of the East India Company's service. He entered the [[Royal Navy]] in 23 January, 1866, being appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britan
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• Robert Keith Arbuthnot, Fourth Baronet
  ...and]] in 1916, in which he led most of his [[First Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|First Cruiser Squadron]] to destruction against the German [[High Sea Flee ...ave he was appointed to the ''Minotaur'', in the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadron]], on 27 October. The ''Minotaur'' paid off on 23 Decemb
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• Fifth Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)
  The '''Fifth Battle Squadron''' was a fighting unit of the British [[Royal Navy]] before and during the [[First World War]]. ...from the previous year's roster. It is part of the [[Second Fleet (Royal Navy)|Second Fleet]].
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• Home Fleet (Royal Navy)
  ...l Navy)|Atlantic Fleet]], and, renamed the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]], it was the primary British fleet facing the Germans when war began in 19 ...the principal naval force in home waters was the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadron]]. The other main naval force consisted of partially-man
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• Captain of the Fleet (Royal Navy)
  ...the Fleet''' was a designation bestowed upon the senior {{CaptRN}} in some Fleets or on some Stations. It was not, in itself, a rank ''per se''. ...son Moore|Archibald Moore]] was appointed as [[Captain of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Captain of the Fleet]] to [[William Henry May|Sir William H. May]] in the
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• Cecil Burney, First Baronet
  ...yal Navy (15 May, 1858 &ndash; 5 June, 1929) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. ...in French.<ref>Luard Committee. p. 31. Q. 806-807.</ref> He entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet in the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''
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• Second Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)
  ...''Second Battle Squadron''' was a [[dreadnought]] formation of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...]], from the battleships of the Second Division of the [[Home Fleet (Royal Navy)|Home Fleet]]. Vice-Admiral [[John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe
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• Sixth Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)
  It is part of the [[Second Fleet (Royal Navy)|Second Fleet]]. {{UK-Russell}}, {{UK-Albemarle}} and {{UK-1Duncan}} have ...on this source indicate flux of some kind, noted below.<ref>Printed page "Fleets and Squadrons in Commission at Home and Abroad" in Albert Francis Barclay B
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• Charles Algernon Parsons
  ...affected by this decision. The Cunard Company was first among the merchant fleets to install turbines, in 1905 in the 30,000 ton liner Carmania. The Lusitani There remained yet to be met the demand of the immense fleets of low-speed tramp steamers and cargo vessels. Parsons realized that the on
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• Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby
  ...h; 3 March, 1895) was an influential officer in the late-Victorian [[Royal Navy]]. ...Hornby, was born at Winwick in Lancashire on 20 Feb. 1825. He entered the navy in March 1837 on board the ''Princess Charlotte'', then fitting out as the
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• Tōgō Heihachirō, First Kōshaku
  [[Admiral of the Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]] Marquis (Kōshaku (侯爵)) '''Tōgō Heihachirō'' ...Satsuma War (August 1863), in which Kagoshima was bombarded by the [[Royal Navy]] to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson
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• Navy War Council
  The '''Navy War Council''' was an ''ad hoc'' committee of the [[Royal Navy]] formed in October, 1909 to perform the basic function of a naval staff, a ...the Naval Intelligence Department's War Division and the Commander of the Royal Naval War College were to act as Joint Secretaries.<ref>"Proposals by Direc
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• Joseph Charles Walrond Henley
  ...P. (12 September, 1879 &ndash; 9 June, 1968) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...by DNO <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>." He injured
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• Ronald Wolseley Oldham
  ...Oldham''', O.B.E. (21 July, 1887 &ndash; ?) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...d Englefield Evans|Alfred Englefield Evans]]'''|'''[[Atlantic Fleet (Royal Navy)|Captain of the Fleet, Atlantic Fleet]]'''<br>19 Aug, 1933{{NLJul34|p. 256}
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• Bentinck John Davies Yelverton
  ...ary, 1959), born '''Bentinck John Davies''', was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. ...1877, he was appointed to the ''Shannon'' on the [[Pacific Station (Royal Navy)|Pacific Station]]. On 20 September, 1878, he was rated Midshipman, and on
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• Fifth Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)
  ...In 1909 it swapped designations with the [[Second Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|Second Cruiser Squadron]]. In 1912 the designation was attached to a rese ...d became the {{UK-CS|2}} of the Second Division of the [[Home Fleet (Royal Navy)|Home Fleet]].
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• Medical Director-General (Royal Navy)
  ...al of Hospitals and Fleets (Royal Navy)|Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets]]. ..., p. 8.</ref> Norbury was succeeded by Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets [[Herbert Mackay Ellis|Herbert M. Ellis]] on 12 September, 1904.<ref>"Naval
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• Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford
  ...r John Fisher]], descended into a bitter feud which threatened to tear the navy in half in the early years of the Twentieth Century. ...before being appointed to ''Victory'' until 17 July, before serving in the royal yacht proper. Whilst at Holyhead he hunted a great deal, both there, with
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• Admiral (Royal Navy)
  ...junior to {{FleetRN}}, Admirals tended to be given command of ocean-going fleets and the home port commands. ...l as ten domestics &ndash; two fewer than an [[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]] enjoyed, and three more than were granted a {{ViceR
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• Astley Cooper Key
  ....C. (18 January, 1821 &ndash; 3 March, 1888) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...in a special course of study, on board the {{UK-Excellent|f=t}} and at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth. In February 1843 he joined the ''Curaçoa'' goin
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• Channel Fleet (Royal Navy)
  ..., the Admiralty informed the Commander-in-Chief of the [[Home Fleet (Royal Navy)|Home Fleet]], [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Sir Arthur K. Wilson]] ...r Richard Poore, Bart.]], Rear-Admiral in the [[Mediterranean Fleet (Royal Navy)|Mediterranean Fleet]],<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appoi
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