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Major Royal Navy stations (1939-1945)

This is a list of Royal Navy stations

A Naval station is a geographic command responsible for conducting all naval operations within its defined area. It may consist of flotillas, or squadrons, or individual ships under command.[1]

History

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The British Royal Navy for command purposes was separated into a number of stations or fleets, each normally under an admiral, vice admiral, rear admiral or commodore for those stations deemed strategically important .[2]. Minor naval stations normally served as sub-commands to the larger station these would normally be commanded by a naval officer in charge of captain rank or below.

Alphabetical listing

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Note:In regards to subordinate listing only the last station the command reported to is shown for example the Aden station through out its history was under six different higher commands. For a full list of stations they were part of see the relevant articles.

A

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1. Aberdeen Station Scotland Coast of Scotland Station/Rosyth Command 1915-1919, 1942-1945 [3]
2. Aden Station Yemen Middle East Command 1839—1967 [4] [5]
3. Africa Station South Africa Admiralty 1920—1939 [6]
4. Algiers Station Algeria Mediterranean Station 1942—1946
5. Alexandria Station Egypt Mediterranean Station 1939—1944 [7][8][9]
6. Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf Station Yemen Middle East Command 1959—1962 [10]
7. Archangel Station Russia Admiralty 1917—1919 [11]
8. Ascension Station Ascension Island West Coast of Africa Station 1815—1923 [12]
10. Aultbea Station Scotland Coast of Scotland/Rosyth Command 1915-1942
11. Australia Station Australia Admiralty 1859—1913 [13]
12. Avonmouth Station England Plymouth Station 1914—1919

B

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12. Barbadoes and Leeward Islands Station British Leeward Islands Admiralty 1743—1772 [14]
13. Barrow-in-Furness Station England, GB. Western Approaches Command 1939—1945
14. Barry Station Wales Western Approaches Command 1914—1918 1939—1945
15. Basra Station Kingdom of Iraq Persian Gulf Station 1914—1919 1939—1945 [15]
16. Belfast Station Northern Ireland Western Approaches Command 1915—1919 1939—1945 [16]
17. Benghazi Station Libya Alexandria Station 1942—1943
18. Berehaven Station Ireland Western Approaches Station 1914—1922 [17]
19. Bermuda Station Bermuda North America and West Indies Station 1832—1976 [18]
20. Blyth England 1939—1945
21. Bombay Station India India Station 1876—1950 [19]
22. Bordeaux Station France 1917—1919
23. Bone Station Algeria Algiers Station 1943
24 Boston Station United States North America and West Indies Station 1918—1919
25. Bougie Station Algeria Algiers Station 1943
26. Boulogne Station France Dover Patrol 1915—1920 [20]
27. Brest Station France Dover Patrol 1915—1920 [21]
28. Brightlingsea Station England Nore Station 1914-1921, 1939-1945 [22]
29. Brest Station France
30. Brindisi Station Italy 1916-1919
31. Bristol Channel Station England 1915-1919
32. Bizerta Station Tunisia Levant Command
33. Buncrana Station Ireland Coast of Ireland Station 1916-1919 [23]

C

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33. Cairo Egypt
34. Calais France
35. Cape and West Africa Station South Africa Admiralty 1865-1867
36. Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station South Africa Admiralty 1857-1865
37. Cape of Good Hope Station South Africa Admiralty 1795-1857
38. Cardiff Station Wales Western Approaches Command 1939-1945
39. Ceylon Station Ceylon Admiralty 1940-1942
39. Ceylon Station Ceylon East Indies Station 1933-1940
40. Cherbourg France ? 1915-1919
41. China Station Singapore/Hong Kong Admiralty
42. Clyde Scotland Coast of Scotland Station/Rosyth Command 1917-1940
43. Coast of Ireland Station Ireland Admiralty 1876-1919
44. Coast of Scotland Station Scotland Admiralty 1919-1939
45. Colombo Station Ceylon East Indies Station 1915-1945 [24]
46. Constantinople Ottoman Empire Mediterranean Station 1916-1920 [25]
47. Cowes Station England Portsmouth Station
48. Cromarty Station Scotland Coast of Scotland Station/Rosyth Command 1913-1946

D

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1. Danube Station Austria-Hungary Mediterranean Station 1914-1926
2. Dar es Salaam Station German East Africa East Indies Station 1918-1919 [26]
3. Deal Station
4. Deptford Station England 1513-1869 [27]
5. Dieppe Station France 1915-1918 [28] [29]
5. Downs Station
6. Dublin Station
7. Dundee Station
8. Durban Station

E

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1. East Africa Station
2. East Coast of Africa Station
3. East Coast of England Station
4. Eastern Mediterranean
5. East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station
6. East Indies and China Station
7. East Indies Station
8. Egypt
9. Egypt and Red Sea
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11.

F

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  • Falmouth
  • Far East Station
  • Fécamp
  • Fleetwood
  • Folkestone
  • France
  • Fraserburgh


G

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  • Galway
  • Genoa
  • Gibraltar
  • Glasgow
  • Granton
  • Great Yarmouth
  • Greenock
  • Grimsby

H

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  • Haifa
  • Hartlepool
  • Hartlepool and Tees
  • Harwich
  • Harwich Station
  • Holyhead
  • Hull
  • Humber Area
  • Humber Station

I

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  • Iceland
  • India
  • Invergordon
  • Inverness
  • Irish Sea Area
  • Ismailia Station
  • Italy

J

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  • Jamaica Station

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  • Kantara
  • Kilidini
  • Killybegs
  • King's Lynn
  • Kingstown
  • Kirkwall

L

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  • La Pallice
  • La Spezia
  • Larne
  • Le Havre
  • Leeward Islands Station
  • Leghorn
  • Leith and Granton
  • Leith Station
  • Lerwick
  • Levant
  • Levant and East Mediterranean
  • Lisbon Station
  • Lisbon Station and Coast of Spain
  • Littlehampton
  • Liverpool
  • Lowestoft

M

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  • Manchester
  • Marseilles
  • Mediterranean Station
  • Mersa Matruh
  • Methil
  • Middle East
  • Middlesbrough
  • Mudros
  • Murmansk

N

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  • Nantes
  • Naples
  • New Zealand Station
  • New Zealand Station
  • Newcastle
  • Newfoundland Station
  • Newhaven
  • Newport
  • Nore Station
  • Nore Station
  • North America and West Indies Station
  • North America and West Indies Station
  • North America Station
  • North of Scotland Area
  • North Sea
  • North Shields
  • Nyasa Lake

O

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  • Oban
  • Orkneys and Shetlands
  • Osea
  • Ostend

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  • Pacific Station
  • Penarth
  • Persian Gulf
  • Persian Gulf Station
  • Peterhead
  • Phillippeville
  • Piraeus
  • Plymouth
  • Plymouth Station
  • Plymouth Station
  • Poole
  • Portugal
  • Port Edgar
  • Port of London
  • Port Said
  • Port Sudan
  • Portsmouth
  • Portsmouth Station

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  • Queenstown

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  • Ramsgate
  • Red Sea Station
  • Reykjavik
  • Rochefort and La Rochelle
  • Rosyth
  • Rotterdam
  • Rouen
  • Rye

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  • Saldanha Bay
  • Salonika
  • Savona
  • Scapa Flow
  • Scilly Islands
  • Shandon
  • Shanghai
  • Sheerness Station
  • Sierra Leone
  • Simonstown
  • Smyrna
  • South America Station
  • South Atlantic and Pacific Station
  • South Atlantic and South America Station
  • South Atlantic Station
  • Southampton
  • Southend
  • Spithead Station
  • St. Johns
  • St. Malo and Granville
  • St. Nazaire
  • St. Valery
  • Stornoway
  • Suez
  • Sunderland
  • Swansea
  • Swarbacks Minn

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  • Tanganyika
  • Taranto
  • Taranto and Adriatic
  • Tees
  • Thames and Medway Station
  • Thames Station
  • Thurso
  • Torquay
  • Trieste
  • Tripoli
  • Trouville
  • Tunisia
  • Tyne

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  • Vancouver
  • Venice
  • Vladivostoc

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  • Wei-hai-Wei
  • Wellington
  • West Africa Station
  • West Coast of Africa Station
  • Western Italy
  • West Indies Station
  • West River
  • Western Atlantic Station

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  • Yangtse River
  • Yarmouth Station

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  • Zanzibar

Notes

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References

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  3. ^ Admiralty, Great Britain (October 1919). "Other Senior Naval Officers or Officers in Charge at Ports in the United Kingdom". Navy List. London England: HM Stationery Office. p. 699.
  4. ^ Ram, Krishnamurthy Venkat (2009). Anglo-Ethiopian Relations, 1869 to 1906: A Study of British Policy in Ethiopia. New Delhi, India: Concept Publishing Company. p. 241. ISBN 9788180696244.
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