List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy

This is a List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy.

Type squadrons

Aircraft carriers

Battleships

Battlecruisers

Cruisers

Starting around the time that steam cruisers became popular in the 1870s, the Royal Navy tended to organise such ships into groups called Cruiser Squadrons. Squadrons were commanded by a Rear-Admiral whose title was given as Flag Officer Cruiser Squadron n, or CSn for short (e.g. the officer commanding the 3rd Cruiser Squadron would be CS3).

During peace time the grouping was primarily for administrative purposes, but during war the whole squadron tended to be operated as a unified fighting unit and such units would train in this formation during peace. In the main fighting fleets (Home Fleet and Mediterranean Fleet) members of a given squadron were normally of the same or similar classes. The use of Cruiser Squadrons died out as the number of such ships decreased following World War II.

Light Cruisers

Defence boats

Destroyers

Escorts

Fast patrol boats

Fisheries

Frigates

Minesweepers

Coastal minesweepers

Fleet minesweepers

Inshore minesweepers

Mine countermeasures

Submarines

Training

Type flotillas

Port flotilla

Destroyer flotilla

See Pennant number#Flotilla bands

Escort flotilla

Minesweeper flotilla

Motor torpedo boat flotilla

Submarine flotilla

Training flotilla

References

  1. ↑ Graham Watson, Royal Navy: Fleet Air Arm, August 1945, v 1.0, 7 April 2002, Orbat.com
  2. ↑ Orbat.com, Mediterranean Fleet, 3 September 1939
  3. ↑ Home Fleet listing for 1933
  4. ↑ http://www.sydneymemorial.com/history.htm, and Jürgen Rohwer (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-119-8, p.29. Rohmer adds HMS Achilles.
  5. ↑ Orbat.com/Niehorster, http://niehorster.org/017_britain/39_navy/china-station_submarines.html
  6. ↑ "Oberon Class - The First Australian Submarine Squadron". Submarine Institute of Australia. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  7. ↑ "RN Bridge Card - 30 Jul 10" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  8. ↑ Watson, (retired Historian, Cardiff University, 1969-1998)., Dr. Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployments 1900-1914". www.naval-history.net. Graham Smith, 8 August, 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  9. ↑ Watson, Dr. Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914-1918". www.naval-history.net. Graham Smith, 27 October, 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Watson, Dr. Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1919-1939". www.naval-history.net. Graham Smith, 2 September, 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  11. 1 2 Watson, Dr. Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation in World War 2, 1939-1945". www.naval-history.net. Graham Smith, 19 September 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  12. ↑ Watson, (retired Historian, Cardiff University, 1969-1998)., Dr. Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployments 1900-1914". www.naval-history.net. Graham Smith, 8 August, 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  13. ↑ Watson, Dr. Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1914-1918". www.naval-history.net. Graham Smith, 27 October, 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  14. ↑ Watson, Dr. Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment, Inter-War Years 1919-1939". www.naval-history.net. Graham Smith, 2 September, 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  15. 1 2 3 4 Niehorster, Leo, In cooperation with Donald Kindell and Mark E. Horan. "Order of Battle Mediterranean Fleet Rear-Admiral, Destroyers 3 September 1939". Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  16. 1 2 3 4 Niehorster, Leo. "Home Fleet". Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  17. 1 2 "HMAS Voyager (I)". Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  18. 1 2 Nierhorster, Leo. "Roysth Command". Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 Nierhorster, Leo. "Nore Command". Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  20. ↑ The British Pacific Fleet
  21. ↑ http://niehorster.org/017_britain/39_navy/south-atlantic.html
  22. ↑ Allied, Newspapers (19 February 2012). "Malta-based British forces destroy most of Rommel’s supplies in 1941". Times of Malta. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

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