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The '''Ninth Sloop Flotilla''' was a formation of [[Sloop|sloops]] of the [[Royal Navy]].  It appears to have received its numeric designation some time in June 1918, and was initially comprised of a small number of sloops which had been a component of the [[British Ægean Squadron]] since approximately August, 1917.

==History==
The Ninth was one of six new flotillas to first appear in the Navy List in July, 1918, joining the long-established {{UK-SloopF|1}} and {{UK-SloopF|10}}.  Its pre-history appears to have been an informal collection of sloops in the Aegean.

===September, 1917===

===July, 1918===
The flotilla is formed as part of the [[British Aegean Squadron]], with six sloops.{{SMNLJul18|p. 22}}  It very much resembled an unlabelled group of sloops on the same station that had been in place since at least September, 1917.{{SMNLSep17|p. 21}}

{|width=75% class="toccolours"
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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=6 | '''Part of the [[British Aegean Squadron]]'''
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|align=center colspan=6|'''Sloops'''
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|align=center|{{UK-Anemone}}||align=center|{{UK-Azalea}}||align=center|{{UK-Heliotrope}}||align=center|{{UK-Jonquil}}||align=center|{{UK-Peony}}||align=center|{{UK-Spiraea}}
|}

===August, 1918===
{{UK-Peony}} has left and {{UK-Azalea}} is paid off, reducing the formation's strength to five sloops.  The membership would remain the same until some time in December, and ''Azalea'' would be re-commissioned before 1 November.{{SMNLAug18|p. 22 and Supplements through January, 1919}}

{|width=75% class="toccolours"
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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=6 | '''Part of the [[British Aegean Squadron]]'''
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|align=center colspan=6|'''Sloops'''
|-
|align=center|{{UK-Anemone}}||align=center|{{UK-Azalea}}*||align=center|{{UK-Heliotrope}}||align=center|{{UK-Jonquil}}||align=center|{{UK-Spiraea}}
|}

===January, 1919===
{{UK-Anemone}} and {{UK-Azalea}} remain listed with six other sloops, as part of the Aegean Squadron, but there is no name given to the formation.  {{UK-Jonquil}} has been sent to Devonport, and {{UK-Heliotrope}} and {{UK-Spiraea}} have become two of six sloops on the [[Black Sea and Marmora Division]].{{SMNLJan19|p. 20, 22, 23}}

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|style="background:#CEDFF2" align=center colspan=6 | '''Flotilla is Disbanded'''
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==In Command==
Dates of appointment given:
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==Footnotes==
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==See Also==

{{RNSloopFlotillas|sort=8}}