List of fleets and major commands of the Royal Navy

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The professional head of the Royal Navy is known as the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS).

There are presently two senior subordinates to the 1SL: the Second Sea Lord, who is also the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff; and the Fleet Commander.

Fleets up until 2012

Historic commands

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Commanders-in-Chief

Admirals Commanding

Vice-Admirals Commanding

The Vice-Naval Deputy to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe was not technically a Vice-Admiral Commanding.

Rear-Admirals Commanding

Senior Officers, commanding

Flag Officers

Former Flag Officers

Included:[8]

Commodores in command appointments

Included:Current Commodores, flying Broad Pennants in Command

Selection of current Commodores, not entitled to fly a Broad Pennant

  • Commodore, Head Defence Maritime Regulator, Defence Safety Agency
  • Commodore, Operational Training
  • Commodore, Assistant Chief of Staff Carrier Strike and Aviation

Former Commodore command appointments

Included:[8]

  • Commodore Air Train, British Pacific Fleet (COMAT/BPF) - 1945
  • Commodore, Amphibious Warfare - COMAW or COM(AW)
  • Commodore, Commander Naval Forces Gulf
  • Commander UK Task Group (COMUKTG) - 2001-2011
  • Commander, Devonport Flotilla COMDEVFLOT - (2002-2020)
  • Commander, Faslane Flotilla COMFASFLOT - (2011-2020)
  • Commodore Commanding 12th Cruiser Squadron
  • Commodore Commanding Cruiser Squadron, (1899-1902) [27]
  • Commodore Commanding Landing Craft Bases
  • Commodore Commanding Mine-Countermeasures Flotilla - (1971-1999)
  • Commodore Commanding New Zealand Squadron, March 1921 - October 1940.[28] HQ Auckland, commanding naval forces in New Zealand. Commodore's appointment abolished and forces brought directly under CNS from October 1940. The operational authority was the Commodore, Auckland, from 1961[29] which changed to the Maritime Commander in March 1993.[30] Alternately rendered as Commodore Commanding, New Zealand Station, HQ Auckland, (1919–1941).
  • Commodore Commanding Pakistan Flotilla
  • Commodore Commanding South American Division
  • Commodore Commanding South American Division of the America and West Indies Squadron
  • Commodore Commanding South East Coast of America,[27]
  • Commodore Eastern Fleet Destroyer Flotilla
  • Commodore Fleet Train, British Pacific Fleet (COFT/BPF) - 1945
  • Commodore for Flotilla Duties, Gibraltar
  • Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham - (1904-1969)
  • Commodore, Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport - (1902-1969)
  • Commodore-in-Charge and Commodore Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Simonstown
  • Commodore-in-Charge, Naval Air Stations, Eastern Stations[31]
  • Commodore-in-Charge, Hamburg
  • Commodore in Charge, HM Australian Naval Establishments, Sydney[32]
  • Commodore in Charge, Hong Kong
  • Commodore in Charge, Jamaica[33]
  • Commodore-in-Charge, Naval Air Stations, Ceylon[31]
  • Commodore, Malaya
  • Commodore, Naval Air Stations, East Africa[31]
  • Commodore, Naval Air Stations, North
  • Commodore, Naval Aviation
  • Commodore of Convoys
  • Commodore Royal Naval Reserve - Cdre RNR
  • Commodore Royal Yachts
  • Commodore Superintendent, Taranto RN Base (1945)
  • Senior Naval Officer West Indies - SNOWI

Senior Royal Marines appointments

The Royal Marines are part of the Naval Service

Former Royal Marines appointments

Squadrons and flotillas

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See also

Footnotes

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References

  • Drucker, G. (2005). "Fleet Air Arm Service Records: Flag Officer Index". Fleet Air Arm Archive.
  • Government, H.M. (18 April 1902). The Navy List. H.M. Stationery Office.
  • Houterman, Hans; Koppes, Jeroen. (2016) "World War II unit histories & officers, Royal Navy". www.unithistories.com. Houterman and Koppes.
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  • Niehorster, Leo Dr. (2013) World War II Armed Forces — Orders of Battle and Organizations - British, Colonial, and Dominion Armed Forces - British, Colonial, and Dominion Navies . http://niehorster.org/index.htm
  • Roskill, S.W., Captn., DSC., RN, The war at sea, 1939-1945, Vol.I, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1954 (maps of operational Commands of the Royal Navy during the Second World War taken from Roskill, but not attributed, together with Fleet appendixes also taken from his work can be found at http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4201-40RNShips4Overseas.htm. Note from Naval-History.Net. The map was assembled from a variety of sources. The Fleet Appendices are not from Roskill's work, which does not include them. They were compiled from Admiralty Pink and Red lists.
  • Stationery Office, H. M. (May 1951). The Navy List. Spink and Son Ltd, London, England.
  • Stewart, William . (2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. Template:ISBN.

External links

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