Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)

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History

The Channel Squadron was established as such in 1858, and was occasionally known as the Particular Service Squadron,[1] and the Channel Fleet and one reference has been seen to "Senior Officer in Command of Her Majesty's vessels on the coast of Ireland". For the most part its commander was known as the Senior Officer in Command, but occasional official references are seen to Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral Commanding: in the Navy List for December, 1886, for example, Sir William N. W. Hewett is listed as both "Senior Officer in command of Channel Squadron" and "Vice-Admiral Commanding".[2] Vice-Admiral The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beresford was appointed Vice-Admiral Commanding, Channel Squadron, on 17 April, 1903.[3] On 6 May he was informed by the Admiralty "that for the future the Channel Squadron shall be known as the Channel Fleet."[4]

Composition

1891

[5]

1896

[6]

February, 1900

[7]

January, 1901

The formation has remained unaltered, but Mars and Pelorus are no longer on temporary detachment.[8]

Senior Officers in Command

Dates of appointment given:

Seconds-in-Command

Dates of appointment given:

Footnotes

  1. Clowes. The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 89.
  2. The Navy List, Corrected to the 20th December, 1886. pp. 70, 187.
  3. The Navy List. (June, 1903). p. 216.
  4. Letter No 743 of 6 May, 1903. The National Archives. ADM 144/16. f. 60.
  5. Parkes. British Battleships. p. 693.
  6. Parkes. British Battleships. p. 693.
  7. The Navy List. (February, 1900). p. 218.
  8. The Navy List. (January, 1901). p. 218.
  9. Fremantle service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1196.
  10. Fremantle service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1196.
  11. Stopford service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1065.
  12. Stopford service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1065.
  13. Smart service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/963.
  14. Dacres service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/821.
  15. Dacres service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/821.
  16. Yelverton service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1521.
  17. Yelverton service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1521.
  18. Yelverton service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1521.
  19. Warden service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1321.
  20. Warden service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1321.
  21. Symonds service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/1131.
  22. Symonds service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/1131.
  23. Yelverton service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1521.
  24. Yelverton service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1521.
  25. Wellesley service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1367.
  26. Wellesley service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1367.
  27. Phipps Hornby service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1838.
  28. Phipps Hornby service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1838.
  29. Alcester service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/883.
  30. Alcester service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/883.
  31. Hay service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1616.
  32. Hay service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1616.
  33. Hood service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1791.
  34. Hood service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1791.
  35. The Navy List. (January, 1882). p. 188.
  36. Glyn service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1415.
  37. Glyn service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1415.
  38. Dowell service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1044.
  39. Dowell service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1044.
  40. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/25.
  41. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/25.
  42. De Horsey service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/976.
  43. De Horsey service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/976.
  44. Whyte service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1506.
  45. Whyte service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1506.
  46. Fellowes service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1239.
  47. Fellowes service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1239.
  48. Hewett service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1761.
  49. Hewett service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1761.
  50. Baird service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/189.
  51. Baird service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/189.
  52. Culme-Seymour service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/941.
  53. Culme-Seymour service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/941.
  54. Fairfax service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/40/178.
  55. Fairfax service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/40/176.
  56. FitzRoy service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1252.
  57. FitzRoy service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1252.
  58. Kerr service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/2069.
  59. Kerr service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/2069.
  60. Clowes. The Royal Navy. Vol. VII. p. 89.
  61. Stephenson service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1134.
  62. Rawson service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/696.
  63. Rawson service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/696.
  64. Wilson service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1546.
  65. Wilson service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1546.
  66. Beresford service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/129.
  67. Letter No 743 of 6 May, 1903. The National Archives. ADM 144/16. f. 60.
  68. Erskine service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1193.
  69. Erskine service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1193.
  70. The Navy List. (January, 1870). p. 180.
  71. Chads service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37. Not properly catalogued.
  72. Phillimore service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/544.
  73. Dowell service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1044.
  74. Dowell service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1044.
  75. Boys service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/282.
  76. Boys service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/282.
  77. Glyn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1415.
  78. Glyn Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1415.
  79. Sullivan service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1201
  80. Sullivan service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1201
  81. Wilson service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1551.
  82. Wilson service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1551.
  83. Whyte service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1506.
  84. Whyte service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/1506.
  85. The Navy List. (October, 1885). p. 188.
  86. Heneage service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1750.
  87. Fremantle service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1348.
  88. Fremantle service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1348.
  89. Rowley service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/832.
  90. Rowley service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/832.
  91. D'Arcy-Irvine service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/2022.
  92. D'Arcy-Irvine service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/2022.
  93. Tracey service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/109.
  94. Tracey service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/109.
  95. Jones service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/2013.
  96. Jones service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/2013.
  97. Adeane service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/16.
  98. Adeane service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/16.
  99. Seymour service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/942.
  100. Dale service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/930.
  101. Dale service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/930.
  102. Alington service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/41.
  103. Alington service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/41.
  104. Powlett service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/605.
  105. Powlett service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/37/605.
  106. Fellowes service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1120.
  107. Fellowes service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1120.
  108. Brackenbury service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/398.
  109. Brackenbury service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/398.
  110. Fanshawe service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/516.
  111. Fanshawe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/17/93.
  112. Jenkings Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1766.
  113. Jenkings service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/36/1766.
  114. Acland service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/4.
  115. Acland service record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38/4.
  116. Curzon-Howe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 275.

Bibliography

  • Clowes, Sir Wm. Laird (1903). The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria. Vol. VII. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited.