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

    Type squadrons

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    Aircraft carriers

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    Numbered

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    name 1st formation 2nd formation 3rd formation deployments notes ref
    1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron 1943-1947 British Pacific Fleet
    2nd Aircraft Carrier Squadron 1947-1948 Mediterranean Fleet
    3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron 1948-1952 Home Fleet
    11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron 1945 British Pacific Fleet
    21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron 1945 East Indies Fleet
    30th Aircraft Carrier Squadron 1945 British Pacific Fleet [1]

    Named

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    name 1st formation 2nd formation 3rd formation deployments notes ref
    East Indies and Egyptian Seaplane Squadron 1916-1918 Example Example East Indies Station Royal Navy's first carrier squadron [2]

    Battleships

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    name 1st formation 2nd formation 3rd formation deployments notes ref
    1st Battle Squadron 1912–1945 1912-1914. First Fleet
    1914-1915 Grand Fleet
    1919-24 Atlantic Fleet
    1924-1939. Mediterranean Fleet    		 05.1912.formed from battleships of the 2nd Division
    11.1924 retitled 2nd Battle Squadron
    2nd Battle Squadron 1912–1921 1924-1932 1912-1914. First Fleet
    1914-15, Grand Fleet
    1919-21. Atlantic Fleet
    1924-1932. Atlantic Fleet
    1932-1939. Home Fleet    		 05.1912.formed from battleships of the 2nd Division
    05.1921 absorbed 1st Battle Squadron
    3rd Battle Squadron 1913–1945 1912-1914. First Fleet
    1914 Grand Fleet
    1919. Home Fleet
    1924-26. Mediterranean Fleet
    1926-30. Atlantic Fleet
    1939. Channel Force
    1940. North America & WI Station
    1942 Eastern Fleet.    		 Example Example
    4th Battle Squadron 1912–1924 Example Example 1912-1914. First Fleet
    1914-15 Grand Fleet
    1919-24. Mediterranean Fleet    		 Example Example
    5th Battle Squadron 1912–1919 Example Example 1912-1914. Second Fleet
    1914-1915, Channel Fleet
    1915-1918. Grand Fleet    		 Example Example
    6th Battle Squadron 1912-1917 Example Example 1914-1917. Plymouth Command-Portland Naval Base
    1917. Grand Fleet    		 Example
    7th Battle Squadron 1912-1914 Example Example 1912-1914. Third Fleet
    		 On 8 August 1914
    squadron was absorbed
    into the 8th Battle Squadron
    8th Battle Squadron 1912-1914 Example 1912-1914. Third Fleet
    1914-1915. Grand Fleet    		 Example Example
    9th Battle Squadron 1914-1915 Example Example 1914-1915. Grand Fleet short-lived squadron

    Battlecruisers

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    Cruisers

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    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

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    Defence boats

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    Destroyers

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    Escorts

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    Fast patrol boats

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    Fisheries

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    Frigates

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    Heavy

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    • Heavy Squadron, (1951-1954) consisted of mixed naval units including the battleship, aircraft carriers and cruisers of the Home fleet.[7]

    Minesweepers

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    Coastal minesweepers

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    Fleet minesweepers

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    Inshore minesweepers

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    Mine counter-measures

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    Submarines

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    Training

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    Type flotillas

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    Destroyers

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    See Pennant number#Flotilla bands

    Escorts

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    Local defences

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    Included:[13]

    Minesweepers

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    Motor torpedo boats

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    Port

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    Submarine flotilla

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    numbered

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    named

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    Training flotilla

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    References

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    1. ^ Graham Watson, Royal Navy: Fleet Air Arm, August 1945 Archived 27 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, v 1.0, 7 April 2002, Orbat.com
    2. ^ Buck, H. B. "The East Indies & Egypt seaplane squadron during WWI compiled by H.B. Buck RNR (Australia)". collections.anmm.gov.au. Australian National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
    3. ^ Orbat.com, Mediterranean Fleet, 3 September 1939
    4. ^ Home Fleet listing for 1933
    5. ^ 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.
    6. ^ Elleman, Bruce A.; Paine, S. C. M. (2007). "9: World War One: The Blockade". Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805–2005. Oxford, England: Routledge. ISBN 9781134257287.
    7. ^ Watson, Dr Graham. "Royal Navy Organisation and Ship Deployment 1947-2013". www.naval-history.net. Gordon Smith, 12 July 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
    8. ^ Orbat.com/Niehorster, http://niehorster.org/017_britain/39_navy/china-station_submarines.html
    9. ^ "Oberon Class - The First Australian Submarine Squadron". Submarine Institute of Australia. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
    10. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
    11. ^ 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.
    12. ^ 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.
    13. ^ a b c 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. Cite error: The named reference "Watson" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
    14. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
    15. ^ 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.
    16. ^ a b c d 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
    17. ^ a b c d Niehorster, Leo. "Home Fleet". Retrieved 19 November 2012.
    18. ^ a b "HMAS Voyager (I)". Retrieved 18 November 2012.
    19. ^ a b Nierhorster, Leo. "Roysth Command". Retrieved 19 November 2012.
    20. ^ a b c d e Nierhorster, Leo. "Nore Command". Retrieved 19 November 2012.
    21. ^ The British Pacific Fleet Archived 21 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
    22. ^ Watson. 2015.
    23. ^ Watson. 2015.
    24. ^ Watson. 2015.
    25. ^ Watson. 2015.
    26. ^ Watson. 2015.
    27. ^ Watson. 2015.
    28. ^ Watson. 2015.
    29. ^ Watson. 2015.
    30. ^ "RN Bridge Card – 30 Jul 10" (PDF). Retrieved 22 September 2010.
    31. ^ Harley, Simon; Lovell, Tony. "Category:Formations - The Dreadnought Project". www.dreadnoughtproject.org. Harley and Lovell, 23 July 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
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    38. ^ http://niehorster.org/017_britain/39_navy/south-atlantic.html
    39. ^ Harley and Lovell. 2012.
    40. ^ Harley and Lovell. 2012.
    41. ^ http://Harley and Lovell. 2012.
    42. ^ 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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