Third Submarine Flotilla (Royal Navy)
The Third Submarine Flotilla was a formation of submarines of the Royal Navy.
History
Test Mobilisation of July 1914
The flotilla was comprised of a depot ship and six coastal submarines.[1]
| Test Mobilisation | |||||
| Depot Ship | |||||
| Forth | |||||
| Submarines | |||||
| B 3 | B 4 | B 5 | C 14 | C 15 | C 16 |
September, 1914
The flotilla, with the same assets, is one of five assigned to the forces covering Home and Atlantic Waters.[2]
| Serving in Home and Atlantic Waters | |||||
| Depot Ship | |||||
| Forth | |||||
| Submarines | |||||
| B 3 | B 4 | B 5 | C 14 | C 15 | C 16 |
This roster and tasking would apply until January, 1915.[3]
January, 1915
It appears that the flotilla has been disbanded. Forth has gone over to the Tenth Submarine Flotilla while C 14 has gone to the Sixth Submarine Flotilla and the other five submarines to the Fourth Submarine Flotilla.[4]
| Disbanded? | |||||
| It would be re-instituted in September, 1916 |
September, 1916
The flotilla is re-instituted using the parent ship and D 1 and D 6 of the Tenth Submarine Flotilla.D 3 and D 4 have come over from the Eighth Submarine Flotilla and D 7 and D 8 from the Eleventh Submarine Flotilla.[5][6] The strength is now six modern submarines and their parent ship.
| Under the Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coast of England | |||||
| Parent Ship | |||||
| Vulcan | |||||
| Submarines | |||||
| D 1 | D 3 | D 4 | D 6 | D 7 | D 8 |
This roster would apply until February or March, 1917.[7]
March, 1917
Vulcan, D 3, D 7 and D 8 have left to become part of Vulcan's Flotilla, operating under Vice-Admiral, Queenstown. Hebe has come over to serve as parent ship.[8] Strength is now three submarines plus a parent ship.
| Under the Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coast of England | |||||
| Parent Ship | |||||
| Hebe | |||||
| Submarines, tender to Wallington | |||||
| D 1 | D 4 | D 6 | |||
April, 1917
All three submarines have left to join Platypus and Vulcan's Flotillas operating under Vice-Admiral, Queenstown. They have been replaced by C 8 and C 9 from the Second Submarine Flotilla. Strength is now two submarines plus a parent ship.[9][10]
| Under the Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coast of England | |||||
| Parent Ship | |||||
| Hebe | |||||
| Submarines, tender to Wallington | |||||
| C 8 | C 9 | ||||
This roster would apply until October.[11]
August, 1917
Operating submerged in tow of the sailing decoy ship H.M.S. Prize, D 6 was unable to intervene in time when her bait was attacked by day and then by night by a U-boat. Prize was sunk.[12]
October, 1917
C 19 and C 22 have joined from Tenth Submarine Flotilla. Strength is now four submarines plus a parent ship.[13][14]
| Under the Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coast of England | |||||
| Parent Ship | |||||
| Hebe | |||||
| Submarines, tender to Wallington* | |||||
| C 8 | C 9 | C 19 | C 22 | ||
This roster would apply until some time between September and November, 1918, though explicit mention of support from Wallington ceased being noted in December, 1917.[15]
November, 1918
C 8 has left, to appear with the Sixth Submarine Flotilla in December, and C 9 has left for undiscovered purposes, replaced by C 13 from the Second Submarine Flotilla. Strength is now three submarines plus a parent ship.[16][17]
| Under the Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coast of England | |||||
| Parent Ship | |||||
| Hebe | |||||
| Submarines | |||||
| C 13 | C 19 | C 22 | |||
This roster would apply until January, 1919.[18]
January, 1919
The war now over, C 19 and C 22 have left for undisclosed ends. Strength is now one submarine plus a parent ship.[19]
| Under the Rear-Admiral Commanding East Coast of England | |||||
| Parent Ship | |||||
| Hebe | |||||
| Submarines | |||||
| C 13 |
February, 1919
The Flotilla is apparently disbanded, Hebe sent to the Humber, and C 13 to undisclosed ends.[20]
| Disbanded? | |||||
| Not to be re-instituted in the Dreadnought Era |
March, 1919
Back as one of six flotillas supporting the Grand Fleet in the post-war navy, the flotilla has a depot ship, four assorted vessels and fifteen submarines of "E", H" and "L" classes..[21]
| Supporting the Grand Fleet one of six new flotillas | |||||
| Depot Ship | |||||
| Maidstone | |||||
| Ships | |||||
| Firedrake | Lurcher | Pandora | Orby | ||
| Submarines | |||||
| E 29 | E 31 | E 38 | E 43 | E 51 | E 52 |
| E 53 | E 55 | E 56 | H 21 | H 22 | L 9 |
| L 14 | L 15 | L 17 | |||
In Command
Dates of appointment given:
- Commander Martin E. Nasmith, 7 February, 1917[22] – November, 1917[23]
- Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Wilmot-Smith, September, 1917 – 1 February, 1919
- Captain Algernon H. C. Candy, 1 March, 1919[24] – 8 August, 1919[25]
- Commander Geoffrey Layton, July, 1920[26] – 7 July, 1921[27]
- Commander Robert B. Ramsay, July, 1921[28]
- Commander Reginald B. Darke, 1 January, 1924[29] – 31 March, 1926[30]
- Commander Colin Cantlie, 31 March, 1926[31] – 19 November, 1926[32]
- Commander Geoffrey M. K. Keble-White, – 28 August, 1936[33]
- Commander Ian A. P. Macintyre, 28 August, 1936[34][35] – 28 April, 1938[36]
The flotilla was disbanded in late 1926, and its submarines transferred to the Portsmouth and Portland Flotillas, and the depot ship Maidstone sent to the Second Submarine Flotilla.[37]
Footnotes
- ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 109 of 10 July, 1914.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (September 1914). p. 14.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (October, 1914). p. 14 and Supplements through December.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (January, 1915). p. 14.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (September, 1916). p. 16.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (August, 1916). pp. 12, 16.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (October, 1916). p. 16 and Supplements until March, 1917. No Supplement for Feb 1917 was found.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1917). p. 14, 16.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (April, 1917). pp. 14, 16.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1917). p. 16.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (May, 1917). p. 16 and Supplements through September.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index, Vol. 1, Part 1. pp. 12, 13.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (October, 1917). p. 16.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (September, 1917). p. 12.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 16 and Supplements through Nov 1918 except Sep and Oct 1918.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (November, 1918). p. 15.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (August, 1918). p. 15.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 15.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (January, 1919). p. 15.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 21.
- ↑ Supplement to the Monthly Navy List. (March, 1919). p. 12.
- ↑ Dunbar-Nasmith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/48/178. f. 583.
- ↑ Dunbar-Nasmith Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/90/89. f. 89.
- ↑ Candy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/279. f. 279.
- ↑ Candy Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44/279. f. 279.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 805.
- ↑ Layton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/134. f. ?.
- ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1923). p. 780.
- ↑ Darke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/50/88. Unnumbered folio.
- ↑ Superseded that day. Cantlie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/263. f. 278.
- ↑ Cantlie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/263. f. 278.
- ↑ Cantlie Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/51/263. f. 278.
- ↑ Macintyre Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/106. f. 108.
- ↑ Macintyre Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/106. f. 108.
- ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1929). p. 252.
- ↑ Macintyre Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/56/106. f. 108.
- ↑ "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 20 Oct. 1926, p. 22.
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