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Reserve Fleet (United Kingdom)
The Reserve Fleet was a Royal Navy formation of decommissioned vessels which could be brought to a state of readiness at time of war. In the early years of the 18th century ships were "laid up in ordinary" at various British naval bases forming a repository for serviceable but decommissioned ships. Sir John Fisher's reforms made these reserve ships more ready for combat, in the lead up to the First World War. Whilst warships had been laid up in ordinary routinely, the establishment of a Reserve Fleet as a separate, formally established naval formation dated to the change in title and appointment of Vice Admiral Henry Oliver in November 1919. With the breakup of the Grand Fleet in April 1919, Royal Navy forces in home waters was divided between a new Atlantic Fleet consisting of the most powerful naval units, and a Home Fleet consisting of ships with nucleus crews and other vessels. On 8 April Admiral Sir Charles E. Madden became Commander-in-Chief, Home and Atlantic Fleets, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Fleet
A fleet or naval fleet is a large formation of warships – the largest formation in any navy – controlled by one leader. A fleet at sea is the direct equivalent of an army on land. Purpose In the modern sense, fleets are usually, but not necessarily, permanent formations and are generally assigned to a particular ocean or sea. Most fleets are named after that ocean or sea, but the convention in the United States Navy is to use numbers. A fleet is normally commanded by an admiral, who is often also a commander in chief, but many fleets have been or are commanded by vice admirals or even rear admirals. Most fleets are divided into several squadrons, each under a subordinate admiral. Those squadrons in turn are often divided into divisions. In the age of sail, fleets were divided into van, centre and rear squadrons, named after each squadron's place in the line of battle. In more modern times, the squadrons are typically composed of homogeneous groups of the same class of wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Nicholson
Admiral Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson, KCMG, KCVO (4 March 1867 – 8 February 1946) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet. Naval career Born the son of Sir Lothian Nicholson, a former Governor of Gibraltar, and Mary Romilly, Nicholson served in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882. He was appointed in command of the destroyer HMS ''Spiteful'' on 11 January 1901, as she was serving in home waters, and was in charge when she ran aground near the Isle of Wight the following month and during a collision with sister ship HMS ''Peterel'' in October. After a year with the ''Spiteful'', he was appointed in command of HMS ''Dove'' on 24 February 1902, serving in the Channel Fleet as part of the Portsmouth instructional flotilla. In May 1902, the ship hit a rock off Kildorney, and had to be towed by her sister ship HMS ''Bullfinch'' to Queenstown, and later back to Portsmouth for repairs. Douglas and the crew transferred to the recently completed torpedo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Servaes
Vice Admiral Reginald Maxwell Servaes (25 July 1893 – 18 November 1978) was Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet. Early life Servaes was son of Julius Max(imus) Servaes (1863-1947) and Constance Violet, daughter of Joseph Coltart, a Liverpool shipowner. Julius Servaes, like his father, also Julius (died 1902), was a cotton merchant; the senior Julius had been a partner in the firm of J. H. Schroder & Co., involved in the Liverpool cotton trade, before establishing his own general agency and commission business and becoming prominent in the local community. Life and career Servaes joined the Royal Navy in 1906 and saw service in World War I. He became commanding officer of the repair ship in 1937 and Director of Local Defence at the Admiralty in 1938. He served in World War II as commanding officer of the cruiser from 1940 and saw action with the arctic convoys before becoming Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1943. After the War he became Rear Admiral commandin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Ashmore
Vice Admiral Leslie Haliburton Ashmore, (21 February 1893 – 10 January 1974) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet from 1945 to 1947. Naval career Ashmore joined the Royal Navy in 1906 and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1915 during the First World War. He became commanding officer of the cruiser in 1938, U-boat just before the start of the and then became Naval Assistant to the in 1940. He became commanding officer of the |
Charles Harris (Royal Navy Officer)
Rear Admiral Charles Frederick Harris CB (2 January 1887 – 2 March 1957) was Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet. Naval career Harris was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 30 August 1906. He served as a lieutenant-commander in World War I. He became Director, Naval Air Division in 1934 and then served in World War II, initially as Flag Officer in command of the shore establishment HMS ''Badger'' and then as Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet from 1944 before retiring in 1945. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath Companion may refer to: Relationships Currently * Any of several interpersonal relationships such as friend or acquaintance * A domestic partner, akin to a spouse * Sober companion, an addiction treatment coach * Companion (caregiving), a caregiv ... on 1 January 1945. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Charles 1887 births 1957 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Royal Navy admirals of World War II Milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Charles Dickens
Admiral Sir Gerald Louis Charles Dickens (13 October 1879 – 19 November 1962) was a senior Royal Navy officer and the grandson of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. Early life and career Born in Kensington, London, Dickens was the son of Marie-Thérèse Louise (Roche) and Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, a barrister. His maternal grandfather was French and his maternal grandmother was from a Jewish family from Bohemia and Germany. Dickens' great-grandfather was composer and pianist Ignaz Moscheles. Dickens joined the naval college HMS ''Britannia'' at Dartmouth in Devon in 1894 as a Naval Cadet, following preparatory education at Stubbington House School. Dickens served on with the Channel Fleet, 1896–1897, and in the East Indies Station, 1897–1899. He was promoted Sub-Lieutenant in 1899, and in that year he served aboard before transferring to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich where he was based from 1899 to 1900. He went on to serve on and with the Mediterranean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Astley-Rushton
Vice-Admiral Edward Astley Astley-Rushton, CB, CMG (4 September 1879 – 18 July 1935) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet. Naval career Astley-Rushton was commissioned in the Royal Navy, where he was confirmed as sub-lieutenant on 15 February 1899 and promoted to lieutenant on 15 February 1900. The following month, he was on 8 March posted to the destroyer HMS ''Flying Fish'', while she was attached to the ''Victory'', naval school of telegraphy. He served in World War I as Second-in-Command of the cruiser HMS ''Southampton'' and as commanding officer of the cruiser HMAS ''Melbourne''. He became deputy director of Training and Staff Duties at the Admiralty in 1919, Director of the Royal Naval Staff College in 1922 and Director of the Naval Mobilisation Department at the Admiralty from 1928 to 1930. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Munro Kerr
Vice Admiral Sir William Munro Kerr (4 March 1876 – 26 October 1959) was a Royal Navy officer who served as First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff from 1929 to 1931. Naval service Born the son of George Munro Kerr and his wife, Jessie Elizabeth Martin, Kerr joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1892. In November 1901, Kerr—by then a lieutenant—was lent to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich for the compass course. In May the following year he was appointed lieutenant in charge of navigation at HMS ''Hermione'', serving at the Mediterranean station. After serving in the First World War, he was appointed Captain of the Dockyard and King's Harbour Master at Rosyth in 1921 and Rear Admiral of the 1st Battle Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1928. He went on to be First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff in 1929 and, having been promoted to vice admiral in 1931, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Reserve Fleet later that year. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Larken
Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Larken KCB CMG (15 November 1875 – 21 January 1953) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary. Early life and education Larken was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, the middle son of Eliza Larken and solicitor Francis Roper Larken. He was the grandson of Edmund Larken and brother of Hubert Larken, Archdeacon of Lincoln. In 1889, he entered HMS ''Britannia'' as a naval cadet. His desire to go to sea was encouraged by early experience boating with his brothers on Foss Dyke, he told a crowd in 1935: "I do not know that I showed any more aptitude for the sea then than they did, but one day, in a fishing boat at Filey, anchored off the Brig in a nasty swell with a cross tide, they were both very sick a good half-hour before I was. Encouraged by that, the prospect of brass buttons and the fact that midshipman received a salary, which afterwards turned out to mainly illusory, I welcomed the suggestion of my parents that 1 should follow a sea life." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percival Hall-Thompson
Admiral Percival Henry Hall-Thompson (5 May 1874 – 6 July 1950) was a Royal Navy officer who played a key role in the development of the New Zealand Naval Forces and also served in the First World War as commander of . He went on to be First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff. Early life Hall-Thompson was born Percival Henry Hall Thompson, the son of Henry Hall Thompson and his wife, Agnes Spooner, on 5 May 1874 in Eling, Hampshire. Educated at a private school, he joined the Royal Navy in 1887 as a midshipman. He was posted to the training ship HMS ''Britannia'' as a cadet. Naval career Hall Thompson served in a series of overseas postings, including a period in Australia as Inspector of War-like Stores at Garden Island,Naval Board Member The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 November 1923. but by 1905 was based in |
William Boyle, 12th Earl Of Cork And Orrery
Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, 12th Earl of Orrery, (30 November 1873 – 19 April 1967) was a British Royal Navy officer and peer. He served as a junior officer on the China Station during the Boxer Rebellion and went on to serve in the First World War initially as a staff officer during the Dardanelles Campaign and as then commander of the Red Sea Patrol: in that capacity, he led a six-day bombardment of the Turkish held port of Jeddah and worked closely with T. E. Lawrence in support of the Arab Revolt. In the inter-war years he was Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Fleet, President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet. After succeeding a cousin and becoming Earl of Cork in 1934, he became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Boyle also served in the Second World War, first as head of planning for Operation Catherine, an abortive naval offensive in the Baltic Sea proposed by Winston Churchill which aimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Watson
Admiral Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson (20 April 1872 – 22 May 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary. Naval career Watson joined the Royal Navy in 1885. From 6 May 1902 he served as 1st Lieutenant on the armoured cruiser HMS ''Sutlej'', soon to be commissioned for service on the China station. He was promoted to the rank of commander on 1 January 1903, and later appointed Commander of the School of Physical Training before becoming Naval Attaché in Berlin in 1910Senior Royal Navy Appointments . (PDF). gulabin.com. Retrieved 2012-06-05. and then serving in as Captain of the |
