Royal Navy Order of Battle

Started by snip, December 23, 2012, 02:16:32 AM

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Historic and Current Orders of Battle can be found here. Unless noted, the most recent post is the current OoB.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when solider lads march by
Sneak home and pray that you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon

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Home Fleet

First Battle Squadron (Plymouth)
   Illustrious
   Majestic
   Resplendant
   Sublime

Third Battle Squadron (Portsmouth)
   Albion
   Powerful
   Warspite
   Thunder

Second Cruiser Squadron (Portsmouth)
   Cadence
   Europa
   Andromeda

Fourth Cruiser Squadron (Plymouth)
   Cressy
   Princess Royal
   Gibraltar

Ninth Cruiser Squadron (Edinburgh)
   Triton
   Bacchus
   Cratos

Fifteenth Cruiser Squadron (Plymouth)
   Pegasus
   Ceberus
   Empousa
   Gorgons

Eleventh Cruiser Squadron(Portsmouth)
   Rendezvous
   Aspen
   Diligence

Nineteenth Cruiser Squadron (Portsmouth)
   Karkinos
   Phoenix
   Sphinx
   Nemean Lion

Forty Destroyers, twenty C and D class, in eight five ship flotillas. Four (two C & D) at Portsmouth, three (two D, one C) at Plymouth, and one (C) at Edinburgh.

Med Fleet

Second Battle Squadron (Valletta)
   Glorious
   Victorious
   Furious
   Courageous

First Cruiser Squadron (Valletta)
   Ariadne
   Spartiate
   Nile

Fith Cruiser Squadron (Valletta)
   Euryalus
   Bacchante
   Terrible

Seventh Cruiser Squadron (Port Said)
   Nike
   Persephone
   Tyche

Fourteenth Cruiser Squadron   (Gibraltar)
   Sophie
   Xandar
   Tribune

Twentieth Cruiser Squadron (Valleta)
   Agrius
   Tityos
   Ladon
   Cychreides

Twenty Destroyers, twenty D class, in four five ship flotillas. Two at Valleta, one each at Port Said and Gibraltar.

Far Eastern and Other Colonial Commands

First Colonial Battle Squadron (Singapore)
   Undaunted
   Excalibur

Second Colonial Battle Squadron (Hong Kong)
   Remembrance
   Flashback

Third Colonial Battle Squadron (Madras)
   Allegiance
   Defiant

Third Cruiser Squadron (Hong Kong)
   Diadem
   Argonaut

Sixth Cruiser Squadron (Madris)
   Aphrodite
   Diana
   Triton

Eighth Cruiser Squadron (Singapore)
   Apollo
   Ceres
   Vulcan

Tenth Cruiser Squadron (Halifax)
   Encounter
   Concurrence
   Asymptote

Twelfth Cruiser Squadron (Hong Kong)
   Maidstone
   Falcon
   Harrow

Sixteenth Cruiser Squadron (Sydney)
   Harpies
   Kobaloi
   Mormo
   Taraxippi

Seventeenth Cruiser Squadron (Madris)
   Asbolus
   Lamia
   Hippocampi
   Ipotane

Eighttenth Cruiser Squadron (Hong Kong)
   Ophiotaurus
   Satyrs
   Amphisbaena
   Chrysomallus

Twenty Destroyers, twenty C class, in four five ship flotillas. Two at Hong Kong, one each at Madris and Singapore.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when solider lads march by
Sneak home and pray that you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon